June 2, 2025
Ingratitude and Ignorance Are Driving The Destruction of The Greatest Civilization In Human History
By Vince Coyner
I started writing my Imperfect America blog in 2009. It’s my passion, despite the sad fact that it’s never made me a penny. Not even on Twitter, new or old, where my account is constantly throttled!
My first post was titled “Racism, America’s Original Sin.” It was a response to the new normal of anyone disagreeing with Barack Obama being called a racist. In it, I talk about the 3/5th Compromise and the fact that it gave Southerners less power in the House than they wanted, but more importantly, it was the key to America being one nation rather than two, one free and one slave. I pointed out that blacks would likely have been much worse off in a nation of only slave states. The 3/5th Compromise is a literal example of the subtitle of my blog: “Perfect is the enemy of the good.”
At the end of the day, over the last million or so words, I’ve written about everything from race to the judiciary to entrepreneurship to European travel and more, most from a conservative, even libertarian perspective. I regularly argue that Western civilization is the greatest that men have thus far produced. And it’s not even close. While the Egyptians built the pyramids 5,000 years ago, the Sumerians, Egyptians, and Greeks developed math, and the Chinese invented gunpowder and paper, the reality is that almost every single thing used by most people worldwide today is a consequence of Western civilization.
For most of human history, life was brutal, short, and dangerous. For most people today, it’s not. And there’s a reason, which is these five elements: Free speech, the rule of law, limited government, private property, and capitalism, which combined to give humans the unprecedented ability and motivation to be creative and productive.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/06/ingratitude_and_ignorance_are_driving_the_destruction_of_the_greatest_civilization_in_human_history.html
