The Age of Decadence, the Terminal Stage in a Civilization's LifeSpan

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The age of decadence is the terminal stage in a civilization's life span. Without an overarching, guiding ideal or moral core, there exists widespread disorientation and confusion. Glub pasha echoes the conclusion of many other historians by stating that there is no escape from the progressive stages of a civilization’s life span. Each generation will modify itself in predictable ways based on the conditions generated by previous generations.

“I see in you all the characteristic stigma of decay. I can prove to you that… your atheism and your pessimism and your cynicism, your immorality, your broken-down marriages…were characteristic marks of the dying ages of ancient States.” Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West Are we living in an age of civilizational collapse? In […]

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