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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (67187)	9/5/2004 2:12:04 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793965

It is about good and evil. There is an axiom that evil destroys itself. There is recent examples in the evil empire (the Old Soviet Union) founded by who most people consider evil - Joseph Stalin. There is no chance that such foundations could ever prevail. I don't have a problem with that. But it doesn't speak to the converse. Maybe evil cultures always fail in the end, but it seems that good cultures do, too. Lots of good cultures in the dustbin of history. So your adage doesn't really address the fall of Western Civilization. I do think that from a marketplace perspective that Western Civilization is pretty durable. But that doesn't mean that some bigger and badder culture couldn't come and take over. Also, we have some of our own seeds of destruction, which could do us in over time like decadence and hubris and apathy. And then there's always just plain bad luck, like a meteor. I don't think meteors care whether we're good or evil. Nonetheless, I fully expect that Western Civilization will be around at least as long as I will. <g>