A Very Different Global Pattern

摘要

Oswald Spengler gave ample warning, in The Decline of the West (which he wrote mainly during World War I), that Western civilization was even then reaching some of its natural limits. He demonstrated that Roman and later Western civilization (which emerged from the classical era of Greek culture) had pursued - as civilizations do as they emerge from cultures - a process of expansionism and materialism. It is a process which has an organic lifespan.