Yeah, but he seems to be predicting the decline and fall of western civilisation because of unspecific use of language by young people these days. As there is n

Yeah, but he seems to be predicting the decline and fall of western civilisation because of unspecific use of language by young people these days. As there is no single definition of western civilisation, this is ironic as well as dumb. The man in the pub may have a good point. If you read Djikstra's other essays where he wanders off subject, you'll motice he rarely does. He sounds like an angry old man, lost in dreams of a better past that never was.