On January 10th, David Horowitz turned 70. He writes:
. . . The older a person gets, and the more he knows, the worse things can
look. And so it has
been over the course of my lifetime. One thing I
have learned is that apart from scientific and technological advances
people -- taken in the aggregate -- do not learn from their experience
or from history's crimes and mistakes. The greatest delusion of mankind
is the idea of human progress -- again not counting scientific and
technological progress. If slavery were economic, for example, it would
still be an institution universally accepted. Of this I have no doubt.
We are in the midst of the fourth world conflict in 100 years -- with
several hundred million already dead. Yet huge numbers of supposedly
progressive individuals and organizations and governments in the West
are extending sympathies and support to our enemies -- a fanatical
religious cult, intolerant, bigoted, barbarian and genocidal, as though
World War II and the Cold War had never taken place. . . [my emphases]