The influence of democracy served to increase the tension of a crisis because elected politicians felt it necessary to pander to the most irrational and crass motivations of the electorate in order to ensure future election, and did this by playing on hatred and fear of powerful neighbors or on such appealing issues of territorial expansion, nationalistic pride, a place in the sun, outlets to the sea, and other real or imagined benefits. At the same time, the popular newspaper press, in order to sell papers, played on the same motives and issues, arousing their peoples, driving their own politicians to extremes, and alarming neighboring states to the point where they hurried to adopt similar kinds of action in the name of self-defense. Moreover, democracy made it impossible to examine international disputes on their merits, but instead transformed every petty argument into an affair of honor and national prestige so that no dispute could be examined on its merits or settled as a simple compromise because such sensible approach would at once be hailed by ones democratic opposition as a loss of face and an unseemly compromise of exalted moral principles. excerpt from Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley
Why does this paragraph ring a bell?
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June 24th, 2009 at 5:31 am
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who is …
at 1:32
who is that speaking? is that Quigley?
June 24th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Illuminated, I had …
Illuminated, I had to bail at two minutes. Thanks for finding good material and for offering it. But next time, could you please just leave the material alone? Let us put our own music to it, if that’s what seems important.
This music really got in the way of the content. I hope you can hear the message. Again, thanks for the actual video. It’s important stuff.
Now…I’m going to look for an un-enhanced version of the same thing.
June 24th, 2009 at 5:31 am
I will add to the …
I will add to the consensus that the music is ridiculous. People need to stop trying to be so creative when it comes to information. It’s about the information not the creativity.
June 24th, 2009 at 5:31 am
redo this and …
redo this and remove the stupid music……
June 24th, 2009 at 5:31 am
FUCK that …
that background music
June 24th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Nice stupid music …
Nice stupid music with backwards sounds …who come up with this sounds in the background.
June 24th, 2009 at 5:31 am
post this without …
post this without the music
June 24th, 2009 at 5:31 am
turn the …
turn the stupid music off will you people, lets here what they have to say.
June 24th, 2009 at 5:31 am
Unusual to be the …
Unusual to be the first post. 13 families owe the rest of the world restoration and restitution, then need to go away, forever. Peace2U!!