tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post3020879633561695164..comments2024-03-28T18:59:57.979+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: The Fragility Of CivilizationKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-21680105945165709422016-10-02T18:54:50.040+01:002016-10-02T18:54:50.040+01:00Sean,
I agree there is paralysis but I explain it ...Sean,<br />I agree there is paralysis but I explain it differently. I think that the global economy is in a deep long-term crisis because of competitive pressures. This leads to lack of investment, cut-backs, austerity policies, redundancies, poverty, scapegoating and anti-immigrant feeling just at the time when the countries where there are interminable wars generate unprecedented numbers of refugees. (Each refugee is a person to be helped, not a problem to be kept out.) All this leads to a society paralyzed by insoluble internal conflicts. So I see the causes as material and economic, not as moral or psychological.<br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-804377497300167422016-09-30T16:26:54.046+01:002016-09-30T16:26:54.046+01:00Kaor, Paul!
I should have said something about yo...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />I should have said something about your last question. My view is that our current civilization is very much endangered. Not so much by external enemies we could easily crush (such as fanatical Muslim jihadists) as by a destructive self doubt and despair paralyzing the will.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-30085721528308137122016-09-30T07:55:23.374+01:002016-09-30T07:55:23.374+01:00Kaor, Paul!
And THE SHIELD OF TIME, in "Amaz...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />And THE SHIELD OF TIME, in "Amazement of the World," also shows us what might have happened if the state had dominated and absorbed the Church: another timeline with no true science or ordered, stable liberty. Poul Anderson made it plain that he believed it was necessary for a situation to arise when neither Church or State dominated the other before a true science, etc., could come into being. You should have mentioned those points as well.<br /><br />Sean<br /><br />Sean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com