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“Ottoman Empire. “The West,” writes Huntington, “won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion…but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”29”
― Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
― Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
“If you doubt for a moment that there is a “vast, right-wing conspiracy” in this country, you must be living on another planet.74”
― Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
― Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
― Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
― Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
“The paradox of this arrangement was not lost on Lewis Mumford, who described suburbia as “a collective effort to live a private life.” In many ways, this goes to the heart of the matter, for it is a project based on self-contradiction—the tragedy of American domestic”
― Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
― Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
“Who can doubt that there is an American empire?—an “informal” empire, not colonial in polity, but still richly equipped with imperial paraphernalia: troops, ships, planes, bases, proconsuls, local collaborators, all spread around the luckless planet. —Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., The Cycles of American History (1984)”
― Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
― Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
Dieter Geisler’s 2025 Year in Books
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