One of the
most pertinent, albeit benevolent, descriptions of the United States scurrying to
the rescue of other nations and spreading the values of democracy across the
globe, comes from the late Arnold J. Toynbee. His A Study of History, a work of truly epic dimensions (luckily
available in an abridged version), is a must read for anyone who is not content
to just accept, without some gainsay, Oswald Spengler as the towering philosophical
authority on the phenomenology of civilisations. I’m not sure if the quote
appears within the above mentioned opus or somewhere else, and I don’t recall
its exact wording. Its point, however, is to compare American foreign policy to
letting a Saint Bernard dog loose within the perimeter of a porcelain shop. The
dog doesn’t intend to wreak havoc in his path, but that is what inevitably
happens as he happily wags his tail while bumping into every other corner.
Sunday, June 26, 2016
Beware of China
One of the
most pertinent, albeit benevolent, descriptions of the United States scurrying to
the rescue of other nations and spreading the values of democracy across the
globe, comes from the late Arnold J. Toynbee. His A Study of History, a work of truly epic dimensions (luckily
available in an abridged version), is a must read for anyone who is not content
to just accept, without some gainsay, Oswald Spengler as the towering philosophical
authority on the phenomenology of civilisations. I’m not sure if the quote
appears within the above mentioned opus or somewhere else, and I don’t recall
its exact wording. Its point, however, is to compare American foreign policy to
letting a Saint Bernard dog loose within the perimeter of a porcelain shop. The
dog doesn’t intend to wreak havoc in his path, but that is what inevitably
happens as he happily wags his tail while bumping into every other corner.
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