Death Of The West

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Spengler divided the concepts of Culture and Civilization, the former focused inward and growing, the latter outward and merely expanding. In his view, "Out of the people-shapes of the Carolingian Empire—the Saxons, Swabians, Franks, Visigoths, Lombards—arise suddenly the Germans, the French, the Spaniards, the Italians. As a member of the Frankfurt School of Marxist critical theory, Adorno said he wanted to "turn (Spengler's) reactionary ideas toward progressive ends.

Thus, the insights of one era are not unshakable or valid in another time or Culture—"there are no eternal truths," and each individual has a duty to look beyond one's own Culture to see what individuals of other Cultures have with equal certainty created for themselves. In other words, art is but another front of the cultural revolution's relentless war on Christianity. The book's premise has been linked to the concept of Eurabia retrospectively by historian Niall Ferguson [6] and by Voice of America. He cites examples of anti-Christian sentiment such as the negative reactions to Catholic films and the triumphant attitude of secularism. I've already surrendered my reputation, peace with family and friends, and now thanks to the vaccine mandates in my country that impact my husband's field, we are giving up our financial stability and dreams of owning a house.The Death of the West maintains that demographics is destiny: affluent, decadent, morally relativistic Westerners are not having children and not replacing themselves, while the more fecund but impoverished Third World population is exploding.

He described it as having a world feeling inspired by the concept of infinitely wide and profound space, the yearning towards distance and infinity. Mexican immigrants are, on average, devoutly Christian; how are they destroying Christian civilization?Yet now that we enjoy less pain and greater comfort than any generation of humans before, we discover that we no longer feel much desire to live. I particularly enjoyed the chapter on early Marxist leaders, the Frankfurt school, and the long march through the institutions. We are continually separating into more like-minded communities within a country more divided than at any time since the Civil War.