[MD] Protestant Capitalism

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On 19 May 2009 at 12:54, X Acto wrote:

> Gomorrah was hedonistic. It fell due to it's greed and lust for the material.
> Its social fabric degenerating due to individual pursuits of wealth and power.
> Intellectual concepts you uphold, so please, if you would Platt, I'm a bit
> confused please elaborate on this statement.

This is what I had in mind -- from Wikipedia:

Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American 
Decline is a 1996 book by former United States Court of Appeals judge 
Robert H. Bork. Bork's thesis in the book is that American and more 
generally Western culture is in a state of decline and that the cause of 
this decline is modern liberalism and the rise of the New Left. 
Specifically, he attacks modern liberalism for what he describes as its 
dual emphases on radical egalitarianism and radical individualism. The 
title of the book is a play on the last couplet of W. B. Yeats's poem The 
Second Coming: "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, / 
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" Bork contends that the "rough 
beast of decadence ... now sends us slouching towards our new home, 
not Bethlehem but Gomorrah."

Bork first traces the rapid expansion of modern liberalism that occurred 
during the Sixties, arguing that this legacy of radicalism demonstrates 
that the precepts of modern liberalism are antithetical to the rest of the 
American political tradition. He then attacks a variety of social, cultural, 
and political experiences as evidence of American cultural decline and 
degeneracy. Among these are affirmative action, increased violence in 
and sexualization of mass media, the legalization of abortion, pressure 
to legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia, feminism and the decline of 
religion. Bork, himself a rejected nominee of President Ronald Reagan 
to the United States Supreme Court, also criticizes that institution and 
argues that the judiciary and liberal judicial activism are catalysts for 
American cultural corruption.