Similarly, since suffrage involves electoral campaigns, which involve donations, elections serve money as well. Spengler said that he conceived the book sometime in 1911 [5] and spent three years to finish the first draft.

In other words, art is but another front of the cultural revolution's relentless war on Christianity. World history is the history of the great Cultures, and peoples are but the symbolic forms and vessels in which the men of these Cultures fulfill their Destinies. Li For example, to Spengler, the Classical world's culture stage was in Greek and early Roman thought; the expansion of the Roman Empire was its civilization phase; and the collapse of the Roman and Byzantine Empires their decline.S., coupled with population explosions in Africa, Asia and Latin America are set to cause cataclysmic shifts in world power, as unchecked immigration swamps and polarizes every Western society and nation. A 1928 Time review of the second volume of Decline described the immense influence and controversy Spengler's ideas enjoyed in the 1920s: "When the first volume of The Decline of the West appeared in Germany a few years ago, thousands of copies were sold. But when the income tax rate for the wealthiest was above 90 percent in the 1950s, America, by every moral and social indicator, was a better country. A survey of Italian women between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four conducted by Noi Donne concluded that 52% of these women planned to have no children and that "career" was their main reason.

While he recognized that all people are a part of history, he said that only certain Cultures have a wider sense of historical involvement, meaning that some people see themselves as part of a grand historical design or tradition, while others view themselves in a self-contained manner and have no world-historical consciousness. We see it in the mandatory requirement for "sensitivity training' in the military, in business, and in government.Spengler believed that a Magian pseudomorphosis began with the Battle of Actium, in which the gestating Arabian Culture was represented by Mark Antony and lost to the Classical Civilization. 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. 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 a third of a century, what was denounced as the counterculture has become the dominant culture, and what was the dominant culture has become, in Gertrude Himmelfarb's phrase, a 'dissident culture. De doorwerking van Oswald Spenglers 'Untergang des Abendlandes' in Samuel Huntingtons 'Clash of Civilizations', Academia.

I agree with some of Buchanan’s positions, namely that the federal government interferes far too much in affairs that should be handled by state and local governments and that the U.

We should not live to see the new culture, nor would our great-great-great-grandchildren; and if we did not one of us would be happy in it. Spengler invested certain terms with unusual meanings not commonly encountered in everyday discourse. S. policy in an Islamic world where no threat to our vital interests justifies our massive involvement. He quoted the Austrian poet Georg Trakl (1887-1914): "How sickly seem everything that grows" (from the poem " Heiterer Frühling") to illustrate that decay contains new opportunities for renewal. Buchanan brings out with pinpoint clarity the problems that America and the Western nations face within the next 5 - 40 years, given present population and cultural trends.