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The decline of the West

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…
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