America has thrown overboard the moral compass by which the republic steered for two hundred years, and now it sails by dead reckoning. Spengler disliked the contemporary trend of using a biological definition for race, saying, "Of course, it is quite often justifiable to align peoples with races, but 'race' in this connexion must not be interpreted in the present-day Darwinian sense of the word.

The transition is not a matter of choice—it is not the conscious will of individuals, classes, or peoples that decides. 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.

Buchanan projects that if current population trends continue, America and Europe will be third-world countries with alien cultures by 2050. When Cornwallis's army marched out of Yorktown, the fife and drums played "The World Turned Upside Down.

The Marxists must cooperate with progressives to capture the institutions that shaped the souls of the young: schools, colleges, movies, music, arts, and the new mass media that came uncensored into every home, radio, and, after Gramsci's death, television. 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. Spengler differentiates between manifestations of religion that appear within a Civilization's developmental cycle.

He said that while Cultures are "things-becoming", Civilizations are the "thing-become", with the distinction being that Civilizations are what Cultures become when they are no longer creative and growing. Samuel Huntington seems to have been heavily influenced by Spengler's The Decline of the West in his " Clash of Civilizations" theory. Second, by capturing the institutions where the young spend most of their waking hours- MTV and prime-time, movies and magazines, schools and colleges- the revolution is able to shape the values, beliefs, and attitudes of the young.

He said that what distinguishes a people from a population is "the inwardly lived experience of 'we'", and that this exists so long as a people's soul lasts: "The name Roman in Hannibal's day meant a people, in Trajan's time nothing more than a population. Secession form this culture can take many forms- from giving up movies and TV, to blacking out channels, to homeschooling, to protesting outside abortion clinics, to moving to a less-polluted environment. 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 saying that race and culture are tied together, Spengler echoes ideas [ clarification needed] similar to those of Friedrich Ratzel and Rudolf Kjellén. However;if you want to find out why there are so many problems and where we are heading,you'll find this book very informative. In 1921, Spengler wrote that he might have used in his title the word Vollendung (which means 'fulfillment' or 'consummation') and saved a great deal of misunderstanding. It was published the following year when Spengler was 38 and was his first work, apart from his doctoral thesis on Heraclitus.

The idea is that low birth rates in Western countries and Japan, caused by contraception and the culture of consumerism, spell the death of Western, Christian and Japanese civilization, and third-world immigrants coming to the United States are destroying it. The difficulty with this dichotomy is that comfort has been the primary pursuit of Christianity for centuries. After the Battle of Zama, Spengler believes that the Romans never waged, or even were capable of waging, a war against a competing great military power. Spengler believed that this represented the Western Man's limitless metaphysic, unrestricted thirst for knowledge, and constant confrontation with the Infinite. With its talk of casual concentration it sets up a soulless concentration of superficial characters, and blots out the fact that here the blood and there the power of the land over the blood are expressing themselves—secrets that cannot be inspected and measured, but only livingly experienced from eye to eye.

Defiance of our new orthodoxy qualifies as "hate speech," disrepsect for its dogmas as a sign of mental sickness. It places an opponent outside the company of decent ment, discredits in advance what he says, and forces him to defend his character rather than his positions. The book's premise has been linked to the concept of Eurabia retrospectively by historian Niall Ferguson [6] and by Voice of America. He described such events as including migrations and wars, saying that the American people did not migrate from Europe, but were formed by events such as the American Revolution and the American Civil War.