S. policy in an Islamic world where no threat to our vital interests justifies our massive involvement. Spengler divided the concepts of Culture and Civilization, the former focused inward and growing, the latter outward and merely expanding. 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. Once one realizes that the comments are not bigoted or racist, the discussion becomes thought provoking and worth pondering.

citation needed] Historical data, in Spengler's mind, are an expression of their historical time, contingent upon and relative to that context. He said that each Culture arises within a specific geographical area and is defined by its internal coherence of style in terms of art, religious behavior and psychological perspective. Buchanan projects that if current population trends continue, America and Europe will be third-world countries with alien cultures by 2050.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 particularly enjoyed the chapter on early Marxist leaders, the Frankfurt school, and the long march through the institutions. Spengler said that he did not mean to describe a catastrophic occurrence, but rather a protracted fall—a "twilight" or "sunset" ( Sonnenuntergang is German for sunset, and Abendland, the German word for the West or the Occident, literally means the "evening land"). The difficulty with this dichotomy is that comfort has been the primary pursuit of Christianity for centuries.

To Spengler, the natural lifespan of these groupings was to start as a "race"; become a "culture" as it flourished and produced new insights; and then become a " civilization". This gives local governments the right to decide to promote religion in the public square and parents the right to choose to have religion in their schools, provided we get the federal government out of the education sector (as was intended by the framers of the Constitution). 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. This would result in a hatred toward Europe, which Spengler said poisoned the womb of an emerging new Culture in Russia. In his view, the Romans faced no significant resistance to their expansion, meaning it was not an achievement as they did not so much conquer their empire, but rather simply took possession of that which lay open to everyone.

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. Adorno saw the rise of the Nazis as confirmation of Spengler's ideas about "Caesarism" and the triumph of force-politics over the market. He describes Caesarism as the rise of an authoritarian ruler, a new 'emperor' akin to Caesar or Augustus, taking the reins in reaction to a decline in creativity, ideology and energy after a Culture has reached its high point and become a Civilization. What the latter does to popular leaders, Critical Theory does to an entire nation through repeated assaults on its past.