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tigger,
sam huntingdon's clash of civilizations thesis has been disproved so many times in academia and the real world that it really doesn't bear mentioning anymore. moreover, his other ideas about "asian values" etc etc veer on the very edge of racism.
however, he DID make one (somewhat) salient point, which OoE has mentioned here:
"The West 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."
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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