What brings societies like our to an end? "We all know what will save us and what is destroying us." - Granite Grok

What brings societies like our to an end? “We all know what will save us and what is destroying us.”

From Victor Davis Hanson, an author and University of California professor of classics: "Redistribution of wealth rather than emphasis on its creation is surely a symptom aging societies…A  new entitlement in a matter of minutes becomes an institutionalized right whose withdrawal causes far more anguish than its prior nonexistence….But as we see now in postmodern America…the costs finally equate to an implosion as we see in Greece or California.

"We all know what will save us and what is destroyinging us."

"But the trick is to see how the two will collide. A new tax code, simple rates, few deductions, everybody pays something; new entitlement reform, less benefits, later retirement; a smaller government, a larger private sector; a different popular culture that honors character rather than excess—all that is not, and yet is, impossible to envision. It will only transpire when the cries of the self-interested anguished are ignored…."

Read the entire column, "Why Does the Good Life End?", HERE.

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