The Earth is Global.

[Zipporah's Flint]

The irony of course, is that owed and his ilk absolutely despise western civilization and all that built it

For me I believe that I am not alone in this the two defining products of the genius that was the old Western Civilization are Scholastic Philosophy and boardly speaking "Classical" Music. Another Blessed Duns Scotus or Bach are impossible to imagine today. I don't think that someone like "owedtojoy" is capable of really appreciating a Fichte or a Bruckner let alone a Saint Thomas Aquinas or a Mozart.