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Donald Trump and the decline of the West: Ten thousand years of civilization and we end up with this guy?


René Descartes; Donald Trump; Plato; William Shakespeare (Credit: AP/Matt Rourke/WikiMedia/Salon)
In trying to reckon with Donald Trump’s bizarre speech in Poland on Thursday, which was among the most troubling events of his troubling presidency, I couldn’t help thinking about Mahatma Gandhi’s supposed quip when asked by a British reporter what he thought of Western civilization: He thought it sounded like a good idea. As with so many famous quotations, the story is almost certainly apocryphal: It did not appear anywhere until almost 20 years after Gandhi’s death. But it endures for a reason, because it reflects the profound ambivalence …read more

Source: Salon

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