What does that mean "to decline"?As Oswald Spengler said, the idealists of the early democracy regarded popular education as enlightenment pure and simple - but it is precisely this that smooths the path for the coming Caesars of the world. And we know now that he was partly right about that point.
In "The Decline of the West" (1922), the 19th century was the winter of the West, the victory of materialism and scepticism, of socialism, parliamentarianism, and money. But in this 20 th century blood and instinct have regain their rights against the power of money and intellect. The era of individualism, liberalism and democracy, of humanitarianism and freedom, was nearing its end...
The masses have accept with resignation the victory of the Caesars like Hitler, Mussolini or Staline, the strong men, and have obey them. Life has descend to a level of general uniformity, a new kind of primitivism...
