“The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.”
― The Decline of the West
― The Decline of the West
Spengler’s magnum opus, The Decline of the West, is the hardest book I have ever attempted to read. I have never made my way through it entirely, but I will probably try again. I think his philosophy of History is mostly hooey, and his style is utterly absent, at least in translation, but I am always a sucker for those attempting to create a grand unified field theory for History, like Spengler and Toynbee. My head says that such attempts are wastes of time and futile, but my heart says something else.
It’s hard not to believe that a unified theory of history must exist, given what’s been revealed about the Creator of the universe. We just may not find it until we are in the next world.
Our civilization was derived from Christendom. The decline of that civilization would seem to correspond to the loss of faith in God; Father Son and Holy Spirit; which gave it birth, as well as the loss of influence of the Church, founded by Christ our Lord.