The article was a nice read, but the author missed another point and that is there is a similar war going on inside america. It is about mostly what he talks about and that is a culture that values work, inventivness, independence and one that would like to have america be like Europe, that is a society where the elite rules because the commoner can't possibly know better.
I recently went to a speech given by Oliver North. One thing he said rings true to me. He said (in reference to 9-11) "they don't hate us because of anything we did, they hate us because of who we are"
The article was a nice read, but the author missed another point and that is there is a similar war going on inside america. It is about mostly what he talks about and that is a culture that values work, inventivness, independence and one that would like to have america be like Europe, that is a society where the elite rules because the commoner can't possibly know better. I largely agree with this. But I think Mr. Steyn did hint at it here:
The result is a mirror image: just as Israel is the odd man out in the Middle East, so increasingly America is in the West, wedded as it is to such bizarre concepts as capital punishment, gun rights, free speech, etc.
He didn't explicitly mention entrepreneurial creativity, but it all springs from the same well. As bad as it is here, the individualist/collectivist battle is in much worse shape in Europe, where Caesar always knows best.