{"id":8984,"date":"2013-02-15T05:57:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T05:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/15\/why-do-societies-ossify-and-decline\/"},"modified":"2013-02-15T05:57:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T05:57:04","slug":"why-do-societies-ossify-and-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/15\/why-do-societies-ossify-and-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Societies Ossify and Decline?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson, historian and classicist, puts things in historical perspective.  His piece<\/a> concludes:<\/span><\/p>\n

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History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So much wisdom, insight, and erudition can be found in the conservative commentary of men like Hanson, and so little in the febrile and adolescent outbursts of Paul Krugman and his ilk.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no wisdom on the Left.<\/span><\/p>\n

The philosopher in me looks forward to dusk and the owl of Minerva's spreading of her wings.  The natural man, however, hopes the end is postponed until after I make my physical exit.  Meanwhile, philosopher and natural man live on, fight on, and do what they can.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Victor Davis Hanson, historian and classicist, puts things in historical perspective.  His piece concludes: History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy. So much wisdom, insight, and erudition can be found … Continue reading “Why Do Societies Ossify and Decline?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}