Upgrades include new roofs, double-glazing windows, boiler installations and replacements of doors and lintels. One document references the renovation of an old farmhouse in Yorkshire, helping transform it into a high-end residential let. Another upgrade is helping turn a farm building into commercial offices. For more than a century, since the First World War, authors, notably Spengler and Toynbee, have announced the decadence of the West. Spengler shows that civilizations, like living organisms, are vitally destined, after birth, growth and aging, for death. According to Spengler’s historical morphology, the Faustian civilization, which is the result of the imperialist excess of techno-science and of the delirious, satanic and omnipotent will to despise and dominate nature, is the flagrant symptom of the sclerosing crystallization of culture into civilization, of the turning against itself of the vital will.

Not to honor Dr. King today is intolerable. When Arizona voted not to have a holiday for King, the state was theatened with loss of the Super Bowl and convention boycotts, and berated by the national press. The pressure and abuse were so unbearalbe that the state overturned a popular vote and ratified the holiday. Only then was Arizona permitted to rejoin the Union." The agony of the West is there. In a world where Christianity no longer prospers except in South America, we are condemned to wait, in Europe, for our eventual salvation by Providence alone.It took some time (unlike Mr. Buchanan, I am a child of the time, even being born to married parents and raised going to an Orthodox Church every Sunday, it wasn't sufficient to keep the reek of culture off. I left Christianity for many years. That's another long story). I tumbled towards the right, moving away from almost literally every single person I grew up, and it wasn't really fun. It was hard. It was hard always being the person who didn't fit in, castigated by the very people who preached being myself and achieving my dreams and all the rest. But isn't that always the way? Buchanan frequently alternates in this way from exposing the inventors of the ideologies of death to exposing the moral weakness of those foolish enough to adopt and live by these ideas. Did these ideologies arise as the natural consequences of pervasive, antecedent hedonism, or were they the cause of it? Buchanan does not hazard a guess, but more than one Catholic moral writer has concluded that the rationalization for self-indulgence follows after the fact, not before it. The title of the book is a reference to Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West. Buchanan argues that the culture that produced western civilization as traditionally understood is in its death throes in the United States which will no longer be a western country by the year 2050. [1] 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. Hedonism has caused the death of the West. This "death" consists principally of the population decline among Europeans. The policy imposes some restrictions on how the money can be spent – prohibiting, for example, its use on kitchen fittings, floor coverings and minor electrical works. But the funds can be spent renovating walls, foundations, floors and chimneys, as well as replacing doors, conducting rewiring or damp-proofing, or installing thermal insulation.

Book Genre: American History, Cultural, Culture, History, Nonfiction, North American Hi…, Philosophy, Political Science, Politics, Society, Sociology, The United States Of America I agree with some of Buchanan’s positions, namely that the federal government interferes far too much in affairs that should be handled by state and local governments and that the U.S. is involved in far too many conflicts abroad. I also agree that the United States as we know it is unlikely to survive too far into the future. We are continually separating into more like-minded communities within a country more divided than at any time since the Civil War. Buchanan laments the federal imposition of progressive values on the entire country, but then turns around and seems to want federally funded public schools to impose his set of values instead. He wavers between wanting state and local determination of values and wanting the leftist values currently imposed from on high to simply be changed to “traditional” values. When he gets on his pro-America rants, he is just as dogmatic as the Marxists and progressives that he hates. ANY imposition of a particular set of values by the American federal government is immoral and unconstitutional, whether it is rabidly pro-American or anti-American. I can't believe how long it took me to buy and read this book. It's been on my list for years at this point.

The equality the revolution preaches is a corruption of Jefferson's idea 'All men are created equal.' Jefferson meant that all were endowed by their Creator with the same right to life, liberty, and property, and all must be equal under the law. He rejected egalitarianism. As he wrote John Adams in 1813: 'I agree with you that there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.'" I remember myself, nearly four years ago now, getting a deeper education on so many evils in the world (in particular the Islamic world) and being gripped by a feeling of hopelessness, rage, and terror.

Patrice Guillamaud, philosopher, author notably of Joy and Hope (Cerf, 2019) and The nation (Kime, 2022). Patrice Guillamaud is a philosopher. His latest books include Le divin et l’Etat, essai d’ousiologie théologico-politique sur la co-existence ( The Divine and the State, an essay of theological-political ousiology on co-existence), and La Nation, pour une définition philosophique ( The Nation, for a philosophical definition). He has been working for many years on a new philosophical science, “usiology.” This article appears through the kind courtesy of La Nef. Today, largely because of immigration, there is no majority race in Hawaii or Houston or New York City. Within five years there will be no majority race in our largest state, California. In a little more than fifty years there will be no majority race in the United States. No other nation in history has gone through demographic change of this magnitude in so short a time. Fryd, Vivien Green. "Rereading the Indian in Benjamin West's 'Death of General Wolfe.'" American Art, Vol. 9, No. 1. (Spring, 1995), pp.72–85. Online document from JstorI read this book almost 20 years after it was written and a lot of it seems downright prophetic given the state of the world today. Many of the problems which Buchanan was sounding the alarm over may have seemed trivial at the turn of the century but now they are magnified and unmistakable and urgent. I particularly enjoyed the chapter on early Marxist leaders, the Frankfurt school, and the long march through the institutions.

Gramsci's answer- a "long march" through the institutions. 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. Once the cultural institutions were captured, a united Left could begin the de-Christianization of the West. When, after several generations, this was accomplished, the West would no longer be the West, but another civilization altogether, and control of the state would inevitably follow control of the culture." This guy really had it all figured out. He was Donald Trump only more authentic and, unfortunately, less charismatic. And conservatives of the time ignored him so they could vote for the BUSHES of all people. Madill, Shirley (2018). Robert Houle: Life & Work. Toronto: Art Canada Institute. ISBN 978-1-4871-0170-1 But when the income tax rate for the wealthiest was above 90 percent in the 1950s, America, by every moral and social indicator, was a better country."The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire, is a profound modification in the ideas of the peoples....The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought....The present epoch is one of these critical moments in which the thought of mankind is undergoing a process of transformation. He then goes on to dismantle the cultural Marxist myth of equality, by arguing that there are no equals, only equal opportunity. But then taints the relevant Thomas Jefferson quote, which would have perfectly stood on its own, by needlessly pointing out the Founding Father's rejection of homosexuality.