Fortunately, such ideas are readily available, for those who will take the trouble to learn them. Minor grumbling aside, I certainly understand why Evans reached that conclusion. The former takes such forms as rampant body-piercing and tattooing, popular among today s teens and twentysomethings. This is what several decades of liberalism hath wrought. Speaking of Rome, as Evans points out, that empire fell from within.
Healthy cultures don t tend to fall to invading forces.
They just lose sight of what made them healthy. This is an easy mistake for a culture to make. One of the truly important and insightful features of Where Liberals Go To Die is its realization that entire generations can lose sight of what actually sustains their world if they grow up privileged and overprotected. This is what happened to many Baby Boomers, the parents of the tattooed and body-pierced generation. Those who came of age during the Great Depression knew what it was to struggle for survival.