Death Of The West

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Once one realizes that the comments are not bigoted or racist, the discussion becomes thought provoking and worth pondering. The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community [With a Retrospective Essay], University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-56141-7. It spans a broad enough historical continuum that the cycles through which civilizations repeatedly pass is solidly documented and made clear.

Confronted with moral, social, or cultural issues, these conservatives move swiftly off them and onto taxes and defense, where they feel on terra firma. 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.According to Buchanan, while revolutionary Marxism died throughout the world, cultural marxism was inseminated in the American academy by these scholar-revolutionaries, and from the sixties to the present American leftists conducted a successful "long march through the institutions", seizing the cultural high ground from which to shape, change, alter, de-christianize and destroy traditional American culture. The de-Christianization of America is a great gamble, a roll of the dice, with our civilization as the stakes. The Apollonian world sense was described as ahistorical, citing Thucydides' claim in his Histories that nothing of importance had happened before him.

However, he maintains a distinction between world-historical peoples, and ahistorical peoples—the former will have a historical destiny as part of a High Culture, while the latter will have a merely zoological fate. In 1960, people of European ancestry were one-fourth of the world's population; in 2000, they were one-sixth; in 2050, they will be one-tenth. That those who loudly preach diversity often do not practice it, that those who decry intolerance may be found among the most intolerant. The central objection to the present flood of illegals [sic] is that they are not English-speaking people from Western Europe; they are Spanish-speaking brown and black people from Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean," commented Buchanan in one of his many columns.In 1954, György Lukács heavily criticizes the work of Spengler in his book "The Destruction of Reason", describing it as "amateur", "pseudo-historic" and "irrational".

But even to someone who does not practice Christianity, the author still makes a compelling case on why our country might not survive without it. In his view, the cities contain only a " mob", not a people, and are hostile to the traditions that represent Culture (in Spengler's view these traditions are: nobility, the Christian Church, privileges, dynasties, convention in art, and limits on scientific knowledge). Buchanan projects that if current population trends continue, America and Europe will be third-world countries with alien cultures by 2050. It was hard always being the person who didn't fit in, castigated by the very people who preached being myself and achieving my dreams and all the rest. Buchanan is good at identifying many problems in American society today, but in most cases his proposed solutions are off the mark.It has been suggested that it intensified a sense of crisis in Germany following the end of World War I. The Church in the West, from which a vast missionary movement once went out across the world, is now in a state of decline which could be terminal, unless God intervenes.

If you immigrate here, bring your beliefs and philosophies, but do not dare trample on the beliefs that this country was founded on. Buchanan argues that the decline of the Christian faith is the primary cause of low birth rates, hopelessness, and political utopianism.

In Spengler's depiction, Western Man was a proud but tragic figure because, while he strives and creates, he secretly knows the actual goal will never be reached. Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.