Spengler's idea of race had nothing to do with ethnic identity, and indeed he was hostile to racists in that sense. To our new cultural elite, America's Civil War was a revolt of slave owners and traitors to destroy the Union to preserve their odious institution, and the Lost Cause was ignoble and dishonorable. He said that money uses the media to turn itself into force—the more spent, the more intense its influence. What is "civilization" itself other than a tremendous, collective effort to reduce human suffering and increase human comfort?

This decline is not due to some virus or plague, as in the Black Death; instead, men and women of Western extraction have decided to stop having children.The falling birth rates,family breakdowns,single parent low income households, rationalization replacing morals,multi-ethnic and multi-cultural loyalties replacing unity,you name it. Also, to maintain population levels, those latter countries must accept immigrants from wildly different cultures that tend not to assimilate in the main cultures of those countries. Only 22 percent linked the words "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. The agenda that it takes a village to raise a child comes from failed socialistic and communistic ideologies. The late Richard Weaver had these conservatives in mind when he wrote that "many traditional positions in our world have suffered not so much because of inherent defect as because of the stupidity, ineptness and intellectual sloth of those who.

He distinguishes this from the sort of pseudo-anthropological notions commonly held when the book was written, and he dismisses the idea of "an Aryan skull and a Semitic skull". This would result in a hatred toward Europe, which Spengler said poisoned the womb of an emerging new Culture in Russia. I'm not much of a religious person, but it is hard not to agree with Pat on the decline of Western Civilization.If everyone has the promise of a state pension, children are no longer a vital insurance policy against want in old age, ' argues Dr John Wallace of Bologna's Johns Hopkins University: 'If women can earn more than enough to be financially independent, a husband is no longer essential. He believed that this was the necessary end of mature democratic systems, rather than being corruption or degeneracy. Like the Taliban and the Great Buddhas of Bamiyan, our cultural revolution intends to tear down all the flags and statues of the old America that it abhors. I would recommend “The Death of the West” for those that would like to get inside of the heads of many Donald Trump supporters. I tumbled towards the right, moving away from almost literally every single person I grew up, and it wasn't really fun.