This is probably the best written and laid out explanation I’ve ever read on why western civilization as we know it will almost certainly cease to exist in a few generations. If you immigrate here, bring your beliefs and philosophies, but do not dare trample on the beliefs that this country was founded on.

I tumbled towards the right, moving away from almost literally every single person I grew up, and it wasn't really fun. He uses United Nations population statistics to analyze the recent trends in global populations, especially major declines in European nations and major increases in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Also, to maintain population levels, those latter countries must accept immigrants from wildly different cultures that tend not to assimilate in the main cultures of those countries.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. If you feel everything is in good shape,don't bother reading this book,just go on believing all the ills are caused by the religious right and racists.

As Buchanan laments the loss of his old-timey upbringing, I'm running to my husband to tell him just how crazy it is to think that back in 2000, the Boy Scouts were getting into hot water for not letting homosexual men camp with young boys. Buchanan is not shy of tracing this trail of death and hedonism back to its origins: "Is it not a remarkable coincidence how global capitalism's view of women - as units of production, liberated from husbands, home, and family - conforms so precisely to the view of the fathers of global communism? Buchanan derives much of the information in the Death of the West from the New Century Foundation, which is headed by Jared Taylor, a white supremacist who embraces the "clear conception of the United States as a nation ruled by and for whites. In Russia, Spengler saw a young, undeveloped Culture in a pseudomorphosis under the Faustian (Petrine) form.Camille Paglia has listed The Decline of the West as one of the influences on her 1990 work of literary criticism Sexual Personae. These ideas, which figure prominently in the second volume of the book, were common throughout German culture at the time.

modern art- long separated from the idealism of Manet, Degas, Cezanne and Rodin- had become the purveyor of a destructive, degenerate, ugly, pornographic, Marxist, anti-American ideology. 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.

This book connects the world of my childhood with my present day, and makes sense of how I changed in that time in a world that went the other direction. According to Spengler, the meaningful units for history are not epochs but whole cultures which evolve as organisms. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).