westernization: comfort at the cost of fun

The ginormous divide in GDP and technology available to the superpowers as compared to other non-1st world nations, the womanization of society, the demonziation of emperorships, super-political-correctness, homogenization of societies/cultures (mostly in the west), and the introduction of icbms and thermonuclear warheads has made geopolitics and the world in general alot more comfortable and ALOT less fun.

if you don't live the way the western world does then your way of life is barbaric, wrong and/or evil

Well why don't we start a kingdom.

>>3

I want an Empire.

I think the west is dying because we as a culture have gone so soft that we don't really try to push the envelope anymore.  We won't put a man *back* on the moon for twenty years, we proabaly won't even try for Mars -- it's dangerous, and softened Westerners DESPISE risk.  Hell, we get upset if we get our feelings hurt, to the point where we'll grade kid's papers in purple because red will make them FEEL bad. 

In wars, it seems like any Western Nation has to appologize for KILLING THE ENEMY.  And Gods forbid that we lose 2000 men in 5 years (we lost several times that in D-Day landings) it means that we must immediately retreat because the cost is too high. 

What's the point?  I mean if our civilization is no longer going to do great things, or take threats to its existance seriously, than we may as well disband and let the Barbarians sack Rome again. 

That's one thing I like about Empires -- you kick ass, you dare to biuld great monuments, to go boldly to whatever frontier strikes your interst.  Empires built most of the ancient wonders of the world, The pyramids, the temples, the aquaducts, all made by empires wanting to make a mark on the world.

I would like to start a /b/ related group dedicated to forming an Internet based empire where a carefully moderated treasury could drive forth certain prerogatives using a corporate model in lieu of federal legislation.

>>5
I would like to start a /b/ related group
Back to /b/, please.

/v/ is going to build a society someday.  Just wait.

Where are all these delusional underage teenagers coming from?

Meh, we've already done the whole OMG SUPER AWESOME EMPIRE phase. Let's focus on OMG SUPER AWESOME TECHNOLOGY now.

>>4
herp dee derp just ignore all scientific progress from  the 60's

comfort breeds fear

>>12
http://dis.4chan.org/sports/

>>9

That's the point, though. The modern West ISN'T advancing nearly as fast as Greece and Rome did.  Greece had all the prerequisites of the industrial revolution before Christ.  We've not been able to do nearly as much -- most of our new inventions are refinements of older technology, not discoveries of whole new ideas. 

>>5

Even if you are right and we have invented tons of brand new technology (i.e not refinements of old technology), you still have to deal with the other cultural aspects of Empires.  The way we fight wars is utterly rediculous.  We fight with the gloves on and piously refuse to hit below the belt even though the enemy is wacking us over the head with a 2X4.  Sherman was right, war is hell, but that's because it cannot be turned into a gentleman's boxing match.  This is something that the modern West is determined to do, reality be damned.

Related to this is the fact that the West as a whole as become extrordinarily soft.  As I mentioned before, we're talking about putting a man BACK on the moon in 20 years.  The first time it took a decade.  Exploration of space is done mostly with robots and telescopes -- we dare not send actual Americans into space.  I'm convinced that had Apollo 13 happened in the 1980s or after, we never would have gone to space again -- much much too risky. 

Modern PCism has infected society to such a degree that people can no longer tolerate hearing things that they disagree with.  There is no right not to have to hear opinions that you disagree with. There's no right to not be offended.  And most certainly no right to never be made to feel that you've ever ever done something wrong.  That might hurt self esteem. 

In short, the West is so soft that I think we could end up falling in the future.