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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Zoltan! who wrote (8733)10/10/1998 11:17:00 AM
From: jbe  Read Replies (3) of 67261
 
On moral decline & economic decline....

As a History PhD ..Ahem, ahem! Do I hear applause??...perhaps I should weigh in here.

You are both right & both wrong. (How is that for a Solomonian solution?)

Quite a few "professional" historians have linked moral and economic decline. I would add, however, that normally they would not see a one-way causal relationship; the pros look for many causes operating simultaneously.

But at the turn of the 20th century, there were a number of writers(Oswald Spengler is the best known of them), few of whom were what we would call "professionals", who saw "moral" (linked to racial) decay at the root of the decline of civilizations. Most of this was pretty weird stuff, and was very popular with proto-fascists of the day. More than popular: it became part and parcel of ultra-nationalist and/or fascist propaganda.

jbe
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