Have We Advanced Too Far For Our Own Good?

Malcolm Muggeridge has SUCH a way with words! His discription of the current state of Western civilization is right on target, sad as that is. In the following excerpt, Mr. Muggeridge addressed the education system, the advancement of technology, the increasing availability of multiple forms of entertaniment, the new onslaught of terrorism, and the "right" of choice, which some people possess, while others do not.

Thus did Western man decide to abolish himself, creating his own boredom out of his own affluence, his own vulnerability out of his own strength, his own impotence out of his own erotomania, himself blowing the trumpet that brought the walls of his own city tumbling. And, having convinced himself that he was too numerous, labored with pill and scalpel and syringe to make himself fewer, until at last, having educated himself into imbecility and polluted and drugged himself into stupefaction, he keeled over, a weary, battered old brontosaurus, and became extinct.