Tag: Western Decline
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Babylon and the Apparatus: Beyond the Civilization of Technique
The Great City as a Timeless Symbol When Toynbee and Spengler spoke of the megalopolis, they described a concrete historical reality: cities that grow until they devour the life of a culture. But long before them, this same reality had already been intuited in symbols and myths. The Book of Revelation names it “Babylon the…
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City, Country, and Destiny: From Toynbee and Spengler to Severino
The Ancient Tension Civilizations have always carried within them a tension between city and countryside. The countryside ties human life to the soil, the rhythms of nature, the continuity of community and tradition. The city concentrates wealth, intellect, and power, but often at the cost of uprootedness, alienation, and imbalance. This polarity has become particularly…
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The Illusion of Control and the Groundless World
We often think of the current world crisis as something political or economic, something triggered by wars, shifting alliances, the collapse of trust in leadership. And while all this is visible on the surface, something deeper and more enduring lies beneath. What we’re witnessing is not merely a Western crisis, nor a contest between old…
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The Naked Emperor and the Crisis of the West
When Power Loses Its Illusion, Truth Begins to Appear A World in Turmoil We are living through a period of increasing disorientation. The symptoms are everywhere: political instability, cultural fragmentation, ecological degradation, and the collapse of trust in institutions. Each crisis feels like a rupture, and yet taken together, they begin to form a single,…
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Beyond Left and Right – Article 1: The Collapse of Western Meta-Narratives
For centuries, the Western world was guided by grand meta-narratives that provided a sense of order, meaning, and purpose. Religious traditions, philosophical systems, and cultural frameworks shaped societies and individuals alike, offering a foundation for ethics, law, and social structures. These narratives—whether grounded in Christian theology, classical metaphysics, or Enlightenment rationalism—gave coherence to human existence,…
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Post 47 – From Cultural Crisis to the Clarity of Being
The Crisis of the West In our time, there is an overwhelming sense of loss. The grand ideas that once shaped Western civilization—truth, beauty, wisdom—now seem fractured, overshadowed by relativism, nihilism, and despair. What was once a culture of towering philosophical and artistic achievements now appears disoriented, struggling to maintain its foundations. The arts, once…
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It Is What It Is 