special guest blogger oswald spengler

Writing of Western civilisation: "You are dying. I see in you all the characteristic stigma of decay. I can prove that your great wealth and your great poverty, your capitalism and your socialism, your wars and your revolutions, your atheism and your pessimism and your cynicism,, your immorality, your broken down marriages, your birth control, that is bleeding you from the bottom and kuilling you off at the top in the brains - I can prove you that these were characteristic marks of the dying ages of ancient states - Alexandria and Greece and neurotic Rome."

(From Decline Of The West by Oswald Spengler. Written in 1926.)