Oswald Spengler’s “The Decline of the West,” Could have been Written Today By Chris Knight (Florida)
Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), published The Decline of the West in 1918, but the work seems especially relevant to the world of today. Spengler saw societies as organic wholes, which had a birth, life, and death, and he could see signs of he senility of the West back in 1918. What would he conclude from today’s perfect storm of destructive forces, celebrated by the Left as “progressive”? Professor Kevin MacDonald gives a brief list of some of these issues, impacting upon America, as a leading example of Western decline: “rampant inflation and a weak economy that may well slide into a deep recession; crime, especially by Blacks, in the big cities with radical, Soros-backed District Attorneys (conservative media was full of videos depicting horrible crimes, almost all by Black men, and they emphasized the weak or non-existent punishment); a completely open southern border (also prominently featured in conservative media, along with some discussion of the Great Replacement; resulting in ~5 million additional illegals since Mayorkas got in and untold numbers of fentanyl deaths), a war in far off Ukraine (intensively pursued by the administration and resulting in pressure on energy and food prices); gender indoctrination in the schools; repeated examples of anti-White hate and statements of overt anti-White discrimination by prominent leftist activists and in the liberal-left media (often highlighted on conservative media, so this was not a secret); and a doddering, senile president whose personal popularity is in the tank and would presumably be a drag on the rest of the Democrat candidates.”