Brave New World

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I hope to one day read it.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I hope to one day read it.

I must admit that my interest is now peeked. 

In what?

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I hope to one day read it.

I must admit that my interest is now peeked. 

In what?

In Brave New World.

How does my endorsement make it for you?

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Though it was written several decades before hand, Brave New World is a disturbingly concise exploration of what the world today might look like if the hippies of the sixties had gotten their way.  I cringe to think of retiring to a haze of soma, never to see my biological children who would have grown up in vats.  Thank the Lord for Nixon Reagan.

My thoughts exactly (though I am too young for children or retiring). It's the ultimate culture of secular hedonism.

Despite Watergate, I have always and will always have deep respect for President Nixon.  My eldest son was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam.  He died in 1969, near the end of his tour.  But Nixon pulled our boys out of that hellish quagmire Johnson created; he saved thousands of lives for which I will always be thankful.

Reagan was just President at a good time.  He was a good speech maker which allowed him to capitalize on the fall of the Soviet Union, something that has certainly given him a positive legacy.  Not to say that he was a bad President, but Reagan could never match the genius of Nixon.

Regards,
John Doe

IMO, Nixon and detente basically sold us out and the Soviet Union went under a period of huge expansion during the seventies.

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Cool, what'd you work on in the CIA? Also, I'm sadly not privvy to that information, but this is what I've done after previous research on the subject for a paper at school:

Don't want to turn this thread into a debate about the Cold War, but during Nixon's (and beyond) era of detente, the Soviet Union successfully expanded into French Indochina, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Portuguese Africa, Grenada, and Nicaragua. Not only that, but American stockpiles continually declined during the seventies and by 1978 the Soviets had surpassed us while we were still trending downward. I'm not here as some stalwart defender of Reagan because, after all, the Soviets led us in missiles throughout his Presidency. However, under Nixon, Communism was generally strengthened and Brezhnev himself declared in 1976 “The general crisis of capitalism is continuing to deepen” and would also write “Détente, in no way replaces, nor can it replace, the laws of class struggle… Détente, in fact, creates favorable conditions for struggle between the two systems and for altering the correlation of forces in favor of socialism.” Kissinger himself, the mastermind of detente, admitted in 1976 that America's position in the world was slipping.

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That's awesome.

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I gotta read this book after hearing all this stuff about morality & philosophy & whatnot.