burythehatchet
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Sun Aug-13-06 12:52 PM
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Another great Book TV - Morris Berman - Dark Ages America |
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This is an analysis of the "The Final Phase of Empire". Very compelling and and very scary.
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Sun Aug-13-06 12:53 PM
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1. "If the meaning of 9-11 is a wake up call, the lesson of 9-11 is |
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we've learned nothing at all."
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Sun Aug-13-06 01:19 PM
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3. thanks, worth checking. nt |
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Sun Aug-13-06 01:57 PM
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7. Thanks for that. Maybe a Berman Forum? |
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Sun Aug-13-06 02:32 PM
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9. That'll put us on the list, for sure. |
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Sun Aug-13-06 03:21 PM
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10. but I don't wear glasses |
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Sun Aug-13-06 03:26 PM
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11. Lol! Serially, We'd have to throw in "Kingdom Coming" - |
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it's listed on Viva's BookTV thread & I noticed that author paraphrasing Berman. It's about Christian Nationalism. :scared:
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Sun Aug-13-06 01:30 PM
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4. He's selling hopelessness. |
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He's basically saying we're in terrible shape and it's going to get worse. And, by the way, there's nothing we can do about it, but don't forget to buy my book.
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Sun Aug-13-06 01:55 PM
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6. He identifies where we are and some people would rather not look |
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Sun Aug-13-06 01:38 PM
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5. We're now in the "Endarkenment". The opposite of the "Enlightenment" |
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Sun Aug-13-06 02:29 PM
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8. It was utterly fascinating, and seen as longue duree history, makes a |
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great argument for us leaving the Illustration for something else: a stagment phase if one will, but the so-called "Dark Ages" weren't all that dark, they have just left few surviving records. Actually a slave-based economy was replaced by one of freeholders and a great deal of what we know as the Common Law was based on Germanic tribal custom. The emphasis on non-Greco-Roman-Arabic-Hindu learning, and small emphasis on learning itself is what baffles one about the Early Medieval times.
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