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“But let us be clear: civilizations do not control states, states control civilizations”. Culture follows powers.
Fouad Ajami, The Summoning, Foreign affairs: The clash of civilization? The debate, pp34.
“huntington has underestimated the tenacity of modernity and secularism is places that acquired these ways against great odds, always perilously close to the abyss, the darkness never far.” Pp.27

“Beijing erred badly in its excessive use of firearms but it did not err in its decision to crack down. Failure to quash the student rebellion could have led to political disintegration and chaos, a perennial Chinese nightmare. Western policymakers concede this in private.” Kishore Mahbubani, The dangers of Decadence. Foreign affairs: The clash of civilization? The debate, pp38.

“the same hero-worship is given to the idea of individual freedom. Much good has come from this idea. Slavery ended. Universal franchise followed. But freedom does not only solve problems; it can also cause them.”. “Americans confidently preach the virtues of unfettered individual freedom; blithely ignoring the visible social consequences.”
“The West is still the repository of the greatest assets and achievements of human civilization. Many Western values explain the spectacular advance of mankind: the belief in scientific inquiry, the search for rational solutions and the willingness to challenge assumptions. But a belief that a society is practicing these values can lead to a unique blindness: the inability to realize that some of the values don not form a seamless web. Some are good. Some are bad. But one has to stand outside the West to see this clearly, and to see how the West is bringing about its relative decline by its oun hand. Huntingtion, too, is blind to this.
Kishore Mahbubani, The dangers of Decadence. Foreign affairs: The clash of civilization? The debate, pp40
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