It's the Dawning Age of the Apocalypse . . .

How quickly things change.

Ten years ago, we read professor Francis Fukuyama's essay and toasted the end of history. That was followed by professor Samuel Huntington's musings on clashing civilizations. Now it's worse: We're being warned to worry not just about the clash of civilizations, but the end of civilization as we know it, the end, perhaps, of the world itself.
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  thanks to thoughts on the eve of the apocalypse