| April | ||
| 11th | An Appreciation:
To Philip Atkinson. I stumbled into your website this evening when seeking an online text of Gibbon's Vindication of Chapters 15 and 16.
You write with such extraordinary lucidity and have such a sagacious understanding of the intellectual crisis in which Western civilization is immersed, that I decided to read your Study of Our Decline in its entirety and to send you this compliment by e-mail.
I'm a teacher who took early retirement from the wretched task of trying to transform sow's ears into silk purses. (I'd been a member of one forlorn hope after another.) — Alex. | |
| 3rd | Facing reality hurts. Mr. Atkinson, I have been reading your paper,"A Study Of Our Decline and got as far as "Undeniable Signs Of Communal Senility" yet I am unable to continue, not because I disagree or object but because the truth hurts. The thought that entered my mind was that any freedom loving society must from time to time reclaim that freedom. I do not advocate rebellion and I pray that some event will occur to bring people to their senses. I had thought of relocating from the US to Australia some years back but it seems as if your country is in a further state of decline than mine. Best of luck to you and yours. — Bob Smith | |
| February | ||
| 8th | Thank you for the opportunity to read your theory. I have been questioning the basic elements of our society for sometime now and just yesterday came to near collapse. I work for a non-profit mental health/addictions/housing agency and a director sent a memo declaring use of the word "restriction" banned from all agency documents. He offered alternatives that were seemingly utilized to confuse not illuminate any "restrictive" action taken against a client. He and others made it quite clear that no specific policy change would occur otherwise, only word change. My questions: if words are now used to confuse rather than illuminate an action, are those reading the words interpreting an honest, albeit confusing, description? Where does it end, if at all? Professionally, I am instructed to go on "restricting" clients for various abuses of program policies, but barred from saying so. One could, in a similar situation, begin harming clients while deceptively reporting to auditors that everything is fine. It's such an illusion and reminds me of the near total lack of reason, honesty and understanding you referred to in your theory. Thank you again. Hopefully, — Dick Carter | |
| January | ||
| 5th | I've started an internet blog during the Christmas holiday about the global warming hoax and stumbled across your website as part of my research.
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area in California and am experiencing the decline in civilization that you so elequently outline, recognize and predict. This area is a bastion for liberal political correctness. You reference the break-down in education. It's especially true here in California where our public schools have been "dumbed" down to the lowest common denominator mostly as a result of illegal immigration and due to the fact that our public schools are not required to compete. I have three children and send them to highly academic private schools. I have friends and relatives from England and South Africa who have witnessed the decline of England and South Africa. Now that they are in the U.S., they constantly point out developments that forewarn the impending decline of the U.S. I talk about it all the time with my business partner and my wife. The dumbing down of our education, political correctness, ignorance and lack of virtue amongst the voters, invasion of the Mexicans while we sit idle all contribute to our impending destruction. We are repeating the history of what ended the Roman empire in many ways. I'll keep reading and have shared your work with my business partner and brother-in-law from Keswick, England. Is your work available in book form in the United States? I'd love to get my hands on a copy. Great work! — M. Sean Venezia | |
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