And none of this is about to end anytime soon. It's their turn, at least in their minds. Where will it take us? Maybe conservative American philosopher, Allan David Bloom (1930-1992) predicted all this, when he wrote about the spread of global markets:
"All bets are off," Bloom warned. The victory of the West could "be decisively unsatisfactory." While failed modernization made non-Western countries vulnerable to "varieties of obscurantism," "the European nations, which can find no rational ground for the exclusion of countless potential immigrants from their homelands, look back to their national myths."
As for an alternative, Bloom was blunt: "There is nowhere else to seek it. I would suggest that fascism has a future, if not the future."
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