Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "History and America’s Decline | Paul A. Rahe" video.

  1. Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't have been better for me to try for the History PhD, to buck the trends Professor Rahe is talking about.
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  2. "If we have another [great power] war, it might be over in a matter of a couple of weeks" Or, as Tom Lehrer pointed out, "an hour and a half from now" -- perhaps a nod to the time it takes for ICBMs to devastate any (or every) location in the world.
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  3. "Most of our universities are a cross between a country club and a brothel" --- Professor Rahe, it's FAR worse than that. Our universities resemble nothing so much as the vision of paradise that the Old Man in the Mountain would use to entice young men to join the Assassins. For those unfamiliar with the practice (and confused as to how you get the word "assassin" from the word "hashish"), young men in positions of trust would be kidnapped and drugged with hashish, entertained in luxurious accommodations, and then told, "We can offer this ecstasy to you again, provided you do as we say, betraying and bringing down your country's authorities". This is EXACTLY the arrangement Left is offering today. The universities are an integral part of it.
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