Take your eye off Western Civilization for just a moment and it will be swinging from the rafters with its own belt around its neck...
-- Bruce Charlton
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I was mulling over some favorite tunes, and decided to make me a list. It soon grew faster than a politician's spending. Herewith, said...
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A discussion meandered past TOF's optics the other day and put him in mind of a post of his from way back in 2011. This proved at the t... -
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ReplyDeleteTOF - I am curious how you would make the case - Ptolemaic Smackdown style, perhaps - that Western Civilization is in decline. And what, if anything, can be done to save it.
ReplyDeleteI don't doubt the idea, but it is hard for me to even begin to make the argument. I'm not nearly well-read enough. (Though Lukacs is still fixed on my reading list).
Depends on how you define "Western Civilization," I suppose. Some include ancient Greece and Rome, even though their civilization was markedly different from that of medieval Europe and from Modern Europe.
DeleteSee here for starts: http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-autumn-of-modern-ages-preface.html
You suffer me very kindly.
ReplyDeleteI'm actually blushing about this mistake. In any case, it will be worth a re-read!