Ballz: A Response to Modern Journalism

By Katie Heffring

“The three main factors which determine the nature of all social life on which, therefore, the preservation or destruction of civilization depends are power, economics, and ideas. The politician who acts on the assumption that any one of these three elements is of decisive importance and that the others can be neglected will ultimately end in disaster, and political theories which pursue the same course end by becoming dogmatic phantasies. The difference between civilization and barbarism consists of a difference in social relations, in the relation of the individuals to one another and to the community. Those relations are affected by the use and distribution of power, by the economic structure, and by the social objectives and standards of social value pursued by those who control power… I am convinced that if western civilization is to be defended at all, it must be by people who understand and pursue its principles and maintain its standards.” – Leonard Woolf, 1939 Continue reading →

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