We might all be drinking happily in Imperial Chinese style brothels, dancing with Geishas or putting our backs out celebrating the latest epub version of the Kama Sutra. We might still be worshipping Eros and Aphrodite, improving our Chi by practising Taoist sex, or cheering our team at the Synchronised Sex event at the Olympics.

And the months of the year might have been named after famous prostitutes and concubines who had given the world the greatest direct and vicarious pleasure.

The point I was trying to make is that dynamic and aggressive cultures ALWAYS supplant static and passive ones. Though I wouldn’t really classify the Roman-era Celtic culture as totally static or passive except in relation to the extremely dynamic and aggressive culture of Rome.

I’m not saying necessarily – that the Roman civilization was superior to the Celtic one in anything but a few areas – but those areas were key.

The Gauls were doomed – there is no way that culture could have survived to the present day as the dominant culture of the European continent. They had problems with the Germanic tribes of their day (something that Rome often helped them out with). They certainly would have been overrun by the Mohammedans. The tribal rivalries of the Gauls prevented any other outcome to their destiny other than conquest.

You can have the greatest culture ever produced by mankind – but if you cannot pass it on, it has a serious flaw.

I personally believe that Western civilization is superior in almost every respect to Middle-Eastern civilization and Asian civilization. However, I think that divisions within the West; and failures to live up to the principles of liberty which we, ourselves devised; and a self-loathing for our own culture will result in our being dominated by one or both of those cultures very soon.