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The fall of western civilization is being highly exaggerated
 
 
Frank Cotolo
March 13, 2011
 
It is March as I write and if you listen to anyone out there we have much more to fear than the Ides of this month.
 
"The world is on fire!" cries one.
 
"The flames are rising all over the world!" cries another.
 
"The earth is scorched!" cries even another, though the interpretation is not exact.
 
The fire motifs is catching on like wildfire and even as we speak the hotspots of the world, mostly in the Middle East, are rising in temperature, metaphorically.
 
Meanwhile, back on the Atlantic Seaboard, which should be an Oceanboard [sic], the fear mongers are trying to tie together the makings of a master plan that is aimed at murdering the West.
 
The craving to rid the world of "what anyone else thinks to be true" can be identified by hearing anyone claim they know "The Truth". They just want you to think they know what you should know and then tell you what you should know based on what they feel they have been special enough to discover.
 
Western civilization may be newer than all of its roots but it isn’t about to lie down and die because a bunch of people wants to control another bunch of people.
 
History is strewn with such attempts.
 
In 1152, for instance, The Bold Borgarian invaded what was then the Crimea. Thought the Greeks, Huns, Goths and Bulgars could not hold on to the territory, The Bold Borgarian and his huge army of cutthroat soldiers, some on horseback, others on foot and even others standing on their feet on horseback, raided through the southern borders. From there they went north and scourged upward until they had pillaged all the villages in a straight line.
 
The Bold Borgarian then split his army into two forces. One force went east and the other went west and before you could put a spear in a village idiot's head the Crimea was conquered.
 
The Bold Borgarian told all of the people within the borders of Crimea that he had brought them The Truth at great cost. He said that his army had to be savage in order to make the people know The Truth. The people just went along with whatever he meant because they didn't want their limbs severed.
 
And then, one day, one of The Bold Borgarian's advisors said, "Bold, why don't we take The Truth and spread it westward because none of those people know what you know and we should tell them you what they should know based on what you have been special enough to know."
 
"Good idea, Svklnzk," said The Bold Borgarian.
 
So The Bold Borgarian and his army marched westward to conquer other civilizations. But the Spaniards, who spoke another language, crushed them and The Bold Borgarian was hung from a tree and mocked until dead, as were each of the members of his army.
 
If that example doesn't put this whole matter to rest then what example will do the trick? Indeed, the turmoil around the world this winter is nothing to fear. In fact, the only thing we have to fear is truth itself.
 
Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.

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