Mentioned causes of the decline of Western Civilization include:

• Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx
• US Federal Reserve and the income tax
• World War 1 and the numerous wars of the last 100 years
• US government abandoning the dollar’s last link to gold
• Stimulating demand by printing money and inflating the currency
• Focusing on finance and speculation, as opposed to production
• Making lots of laws and regulations to keep the unstable structure from collapsing
• Artificially low interest rates that discourage saving and accumulation of capital
• Debt
  • consuming the capital others have saved
  • mortgaging your future
• Believing that the State, or luck, or a deity will provide
• War on Cash
• Corruption of language

Mentioned causes of the rise and survival of Western Civilization include:

• Producing more than you consume and saving the difference as capital
• Capital and intellectual freedom
• Entrepreneurialism, science and technology
• Gold and silver coinage for money
• Voluntarism
• Peer pressure, social opprobrium, moral approbation, and your reputation
• Financial privacy and privacy in general

Delayed opportunities:

• Colonization of the moon and Mars

Hopes for the future:

• Kurzweil’s Singularity

http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/doug-casey-on-the-end-of-western-civilization

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