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I thought it would be good to spend a few minutes today talking about Western civilization. And, you know, it's a topic I'm fond of, because

I kind of like Western civilization. Having lived within areas governed by many other cultures

and having visited still more, I can assure you that the choice to live within

a Western civilization society was not a hard one for me to make at all.

And that, of course, is in common with millions and millions of other people who were born or raised outside of a Western civilization society and have since, at often at great peril, made their way or tried to make their way to come under the roof or the umbrella as a different

metaphor of Western civilization. So what is it exactly that we're talking about? And I think

it needs a little clarification because I saw a columnist in New York Times, a guy by the name of Brett Stevens, write something recently, sort of decrying Western civilization and saying, oh, stop worrying about it.

And in any event, you can't define it that easily because everybody's part of Western civilization.

Marx and Lennon and Engels were all part of Western civilization.

And I thought to myself, this is truly extraordinary.

There was a time when New York Times really stood for something. There was a time when New York Times really stood for something.

There was a time when virtually anybody in the West, if you like, that was in an influential position,

either in politics or in business, would read the New York Times.

I very much doubt that this is still the

case. You know, institutions have a certain momentum like a rolling locomotive. You can turn off

the power and the locomotive is still going to run for a few miles down the line,

depending on how heavy it is, et cetera, et cetera.

But the idea is there is such a thing as momentum,

and a large institution, like in New York Times,

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