VIDEO: How do you tell when a civilization is dangerously close to collapse?

CIVILIZATION IDENTITY will he increasingly important in the future, and the world will be shaped in large measure by the interactions among seven or eight major civilizations. These include Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American and possibly African civilization. The most important conflicts of the future will occur along the cultural fault lines separating these civilizations from one another. – Samuel P. Huntington, Foreign Affairs, Volume 72, Number 3.

Huntington warned:

On both sides the interaction between Islam and the West is seen as a clash of civilizations. The West’s “next confrontation,” observes M. J. Akbar, an Indian Muslim author, “is definitely going to come from the Muslim world. It is in the sweep of the Islamic nations from the Maghreb to Pakistan that the struggle for a new world order will begin.” Bernard Lewis comes to a similar conclusion:

We are facing a mood and a movement far transcending the level of issues and policies and the governments that pursue them. This is no less than a clash of civilizations—the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present, and the worldwide expansion of both.

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Huntington wrote the above in an article published in 1993 titled “The Clash of Civilizations?”

Paul Weston explains, in the video below, that when one civilization fails to see the existential threats from another, the collapse of one is inevitable.

Hunting concluded his article with these prophetic words:

Western civilization is both Western and modern. Non-Western civilizations have attempted to become modern without becoming Western.

And so it is today, more than ever.

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