There’s No Clash Of Civilizations, Just A Crash Of One

How White Empire is overthrowing itself in 14 ways

Destruction, from the Course Of Empire by Thomas Cole. “In the foreground a statue of some venerable hero stands headless, still striding forward into the uncertain future. In the waning light of late afternoon, the dead lie where they fell, in fountains and atop the monuments built to celebrate the affluence of the now fallen civilization.”

In 1996 Samuel P. Huntington wrote The Clash of Civilizations, but it hasn’t quite worked out like that. It’s more like the crash of one. The question is what made America powerful, and why does it suck now?

This dude Jeffery R. Barnett whittled it down to 14 points which Huntington referenced in his book. As Andrei Martyanov said, “No person with common sense could deny that, with possibly some minor additions to this list, it is a generally correct framework for identifying the key factors which make a civilization, or a specific nation, strong and, in many cases, dominant.”

Let’s look at the 14 points, and then see how the latest flag-bearer of White Empire is doing now.

THE 14 POINTS OF DOMINATION
1. Owns and operates the international banking system;
2. Controls all hard currencies;
3. Is the world’s principal customer;
4. Provides the majority of the world’s finished goods;
5. Dominates international capital markets;
6. Exerts considerable moral leadership within many societies;
7. Is capable of massive military intervention;
8. Controls the sea lanes;
9. Conducts most advanced technical research and development;
10. Controls leading-edge technical education…