Death Of The West

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the yearning of a ruling class towards this ideal, its will to be just so and not otherwise, operates (quite independently of the choosing of wives) towards actualizing this idea and eventually achieves it. Do not "indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion," said Washington in his Farewell Address. Only 22 percent linked the words "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

According to Spengler, the meaningful units for history are not epochs but whole cultures which evolve as organisms.Many of the institutions that now have custody of America's past operate on the principles of Big Brother's Ministry of Truth: drop down the "memory hole" the patriotic stories of America's greatness and glory, and produce new "warts-and-all" histories that play up her crimes and sins, revealing what we have loved to be loathsome and those we have revered to be disreputable, even despicable. He said that each Culture arises within a specific geographical area and is defined by its internal coherence of style in terms of art, religious behavior and psychological perspective. I would not have a single word changed of this: "The Godhead is effective in the living and not in the dead, in the becoming and the changing, not in the become and the set-fast; and therefore, similarly, the reason is concerned only to strive towards the divine through the becoming and the living, and the understanding only to make use of the become and the set-fast. He described such events as including migrations and wars, saying that the American people did not migrate from Europe, but were formed by events such as the American Revolution and the American Civil War. Men migrate, and their successive generations are born in ever-changing landscapes; but the landscape exercises a secret force upon the extinction of the old and the appearance of the new one.

He said that if the election process is organized by political leaders, to the extent that money allows, the vote ceases to be truly significant. 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. Buchanan laments the federal imposition of progressive values on the entire country, but then turns around and seems to want federally funded public schools to impose his set of values instead.Pockets of living, thriving Christian faith may give a sense of confidence to some, but overall the fire of Western faith is growing dim. Spengler also compared the "world- city" and - province ( urban and rural) as concepts analogous to Civilization and Culture respectively, with the city drawing upon and collecting the life of broad surrounding regions. On top of that, of course, we're not allowed to eat in restaurants or do all kinds of other things, but hey, we can take it. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal.

Ultimate goal: Destroy patriotism, kill the love of country, demoralize the people, deconstruct America. Moreover, the entertainment that the cultural revolution has on offer is far more attractive and alluring; thus many of the children of traditionalists defect. Oswald Mosley identified the book as critical in his political conversion from far-left to far-right politics and his subsequent foundation of the British Union of Fascists.The Indus Valley civilization had not been discovered at the time he was writing, and its relationship with later Indian civilization remained unclear for some time. Japan was the first modern nation to legalize abortion (1948), and her baby boom ended soon afterward. As a member of the Frankfurt School of Marxist critical theory, Adorno said he wanted to "turn (Spengler's) reactionary ideas toward progressive ends.

He sees each Culture as having an initial religious identity, which arises out of the fundamental principle of the culture, and follows a trajectory correlating with that of the Culture. They each buried centuries of spiritual depth by presenting the world in rational terms—the intellect comes to rule once the soul has abdicated.Jefferson meant that all were endowed by their Creator with the same right to life, liberty, and property, and all must be equal under the law.