Alexander was a wise guy, though I don't think he was a wise guy.

Societies that fall into that trap generally collapse when they realize their defenders can't find anything worth defending, or giving their own life for.
Crazy Politico | Homepage | 06.02.08 - 11:53 pm | #

Or they don't have many defenders because they are too busy consuming material wealth...
MikeT | Homepage | 06.03.08 - 10:30 am | #

Solzhenitsyn saw the Elephant, and the elephant-droppings, and the dead buffalo, and the corpse of the rhino... all of it.
As a kid in Jr. High (1970) my socialist parents took us to see the movie One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, basically his life in the Gulag. It was horrifying and grim and terrible - I never understood why they did that because they believe in collectivism, and it really made me hate the cold...
DirtCrashr | Homepage | 06.03.08 - 12:46 pm | #

Oh, what would Solzhenitsyn know about burden and concessions. The Soviet Empire was a modern-day Utopia! /Snark
Wyatt Earp | Homepage | 06.04.08 - 5:51 pm | #

Hey, enough about dead russians and gulag. I need your help again.
Freudz Wet Dream | Homepage | 06.06.08 - 11:40 pm | #

http://www.nysun.com/national/go...-dollars/80368/
Anonymous | 06.24.08 - 8:53 am | #