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. The Decline of the West ( German: Der Untergang des Abendlandes; more literally, The Downfall of the Occident) is a two-volume work by Oswald Spengler. He describes Caesarism as the rise of an authoritarian ruler, a new 'emperor' akin to Caesar or Augustus, taking the reins in reaction to a decline in creativity, ideology and energy after a Culture has reached its high point and become a Civilization. Spengler's conception of Culture was organic: primitive Culture is simply the sum of its constituent and incoherent parts ( individuals, tribes, clans, etc.

If you immigrate here, bring your beliefs and philosophies, but do not dare trample on the beliefs that this country was founded on.Japan was the first modern nation to legalize abortion (1948), and her baby boom ended soon afterward. In Russia, Spengler saw a young, undeveloped Culture in a pseudomorphosis under the Faustian (Petrine) form. He said that the Second Religiousness and Caesarism demonstrate a lack of youthful strength or creativity, and the Second Religiousness is simply a rehashing of the original religious trend of the Culture. Once the cultural institutions were captured, a united Left could begin the de-Christianization of the West. Spengler believed that Enlightenment rationalism undermines and destroys itself, and described a process that passes from unlimited optimism to unqualified skepticism.

Similarly, the industrial revolutions that have followed on the heels of increased food production were also driven by the human desire for material comfort. But despite an ardent Republican wish that this culture war would just pass away, it will not pass away. Spengler said that he conceived the book sometime in 1911 [5] and spent three years to finish the first draft. In his view, the masses give rise to the Second Religiousness in reaction to the educated elites, which manifests as deep suspicion of academia and science. Spengler divided the concepts of Culture and Civilization, the former focused inward and growing, the latter outward and merely expanding.Spengler differentiates between manifestations of religion that appear within a Civilization's developmental cycle. The ethic of sacrifice for a family- one of the basic ideas of human societies- has become a historical notion. According to Buchanan, "Western Man has decided he can disobey God without consequence and become his own God. In this instance, he uses the word "race" in the tribal and cultural rather than the biological sense, a 19th-century use of the word still common when Spengler wrote.