Abaraxas wrote:
"As I'm sure most are aware and a couple noted, there are two different ways to view this.
1. More 'liberal' based on accepting or promoting behaviors that we disagree with.
2. More 'liberal' in the classical liberal sense which is that governemnt has no place involving itself in the matter."Western Civilization evolved and prospered as a culture
BECAUSE it was "intolerant" and rejected a number of types of behavior described by the survey items posted in the opening article.
It
REMAINED dominant so long as it maintained a level of intolerance -- not "totalitarian", but certainly disapproving [and punishing] of of behavior that [it believed] could weaken it.
That same Western Civilization is now weakening and crumbling
BECAUSE it has grown so "tolerant" of aberrant behavior (along with the reality that it has transmogrified from a patriarchal culture into an increasingly feminized one).
In the meantime The West is now under pressure from a culture that is 180 degrees its opposite: islam, a fiercely patriarchal culture that has no qualms about the limits of [their version of] "morality" within itself.
One side is winning.
The other side is crumbling.
Is it a contest of "power", or one of "morals" and The West's cultural values and faith in itself?
Addendum:You could always ask the guy at the bottom: