The decline of the West
BY: Zory Petzova Translated BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - The eponymous bestseller " The decline of the West" by O. Spengler, published exactly a century ago, has caused several generations of readers to melancholy pining at the idea of the inevitable decline inherent in the fate of Western civilization. Despite having perfectly grasped the causes of a decadent perspective, Spengler's thought has the theoretical flaw of considering the history of every civilization as a biological organism which, having completed its natural stages of development, eventually dies. In reality, what dies is not the physical body of civilization, but its elites…