The Fall

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/73720/

"It is madness. What we are seeing is the fall of the Roman Empire, only now it is the fall of America, the glory of our Empire. This war is what Parthia was to Rome."

I'd like to say that I hope people will read and understand what Harold Bloom has to say. They won't. People are deeply, deeply stupid. They will destroy the American experiment and return the world to new medieval period of science-less religious dictatorship. They are determined. They can not be stopped.

"Democracy, whether in Sweden or the United States, depends on the voter's capacity to think. If you have read the best of what has been thought and said, then your cognition and understanding is on a much higher level than if you have read Harry Potter or Stephen King. So what this decline into half-literature and mediocre media really means is de facto a self-destruction of democracy."