tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655746769990033044.post2983937871573365549..comments2023-10-24T03:55:08.090-07:00Comments on The Financial Armageddon: Niall Ferguson : Post-American World a New Dark Age ?Lisa Chapmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09960637257351118910noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655746769990033044.post-13152725217293894992013-05-07T14:56:12.939-07:002013-05-07T14:56:12.939-07:00Let me ask you something, man.Do you write college...Let me ask you something, man.<br><br>Do you write college textbooks?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-655746769990033044.post-39166976638697848942013-03-05T08:07:22.503-08:002013-03-05T08:07:22.503-08:00The problem here is the morbid misunderstanding of...The problem here is the morbid misunderstanding of culture as implying power blocks and centralization. The previous application of these principles in the Roman Empire and its offshoots and later in its colonization of the rest of the world has certainly brought this centralization scheme to the fore on the part of other aggregates, such as China and also Islam as a political and violent movement; and I think this is of course dangerous. But it is important to realise that other modes of relationships not developed by Rome and long since suppressed would be the alternatives for peace, but that encouragement has never existed in the Roman context.Chryshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00365137913107039177noreply@blogger.com