![]() ![]() In 2000, the United States' gross domestic product was eight times larger than China's. There can be no doubt that the West's military mastery and economic edge have been severely diminished recently. But its decline is not a linear, irreversible process. True, the West is no longer alone in dictating the global agenda, and its values are bound to be increasingly challenged by emerging powers. It also speaks to Spengler's dismissal of Western civilization as essentially being driven by a corrupting lust for money.īut determinism in history has always been defeated by the unpredictable forces of human will and, in this case, by the West's extraordinary capacity for renewal, even after cataclysmic defeats. ![]() capitalism's inherent ethical failures and of Europe's dysfunction - might be seen as lending credibility to Spengler's view of democracy's inadequacy. The current crises in the United States and Europe - the result primarily of U.S. ![]() Since the publication in 1918 of the first volume of Oswald Spengler's "The Decline of the West," prophecies about the inexorable doom of what he called the "Faustian Civilization" have been a recurrent topic for intellectuals. ![]()
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