It's Not the End of the World, It's Just the End of You : The Great Extinction of the Nations

by Goldman, David

• ISBN13: 9781614122029
• ISBN10: 1614122024
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-19
• Publisher: Scb Distributors

Summary

Why do cultures commit suicide? Why are we witnessing a new great extinction of peoples? Why is the economic crisis really a spiritual crisis? Probing the inner workings of civilization in a tour d'horizon of cultural decline, Spengler argues that Europe's postnational, secular dystopia is a death trap, that the onslaught of modernity has plunged Islam into an even greater crisis, and that the destiny of nations is decided in the human heart, by religion. Christian America, in spite of its follies and gullibility, has the spiritual strength to restore the faith of the West.This book presents, in one comprehensive volume, the wide scope of Spengler's theories on Christianity, Islam, America, the financial crisis, horror movies, modern art, Israel, Tolkien's Middle Earth, tribalism, the global balance of power, demography, and sex in the twenty-first century. he global balance of power, demography, and sex in the twenty-first century. These highly original essays may provoke you, even frighten you-but never bore you."In the more than twenty years I've known David Goldman, he's always had an original take on the big picture and frequently has spotted key turning points well in advance of the herd. He's an indispensable voice on financial television and a must-read observer of politics and economics."-Lawrence KudlowCNBC Television"Ask anyone in the intelligence business to name the world's most brilliant intelligence service, and we'll all give the same answer: Spengler. David P. Goldman's 'Spengler' columns provide more insight than the CIA, MI6, and the Mossad combined."-Herbert E. MeyerMeyer served during the Reagan Administration as Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and as Vice Chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Council.

Author Biography

Spengler (David P. Goldman) is an American-born polymath-music theorist, financial analyst, literary critic, historian, and geopolitical strategist-and the author of one of the most widely read columns on the Internet.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
It's Not the End of the World It's Just the End of You
Why Nations Die	p. 13
Jesus versus Siegfried: Why Europe Chooses Extinction	p. 25
The Sacred Heart of Darkness	p. 38
National Extinction and Natural Law	p. 50
Rings of Power and the Remnants of the West	p. 69
Symptoms and Distractions
Green Presentiments	p. 83
The Fraud of Primitive Authenticity	p. 89
Why Sex Objects Object to Sex	p. 95
Admit It, You Really Hate Modern Art	p. 111
Sacred Music, Sacred Time-and How Wagner Destroyed It	p. 123
The Home of the Brave
What Is American Culture?	p. 155
Horror Movies and American Culture	p. 169
America's Special Grace	p. 181
America's Holy War	p. 192
This Almost Chosen, Almost Pregnant Land	p. 204
Continental Drift
When the Cat's Away, the Mice Kill Each Other	p. 215
In Praise of Premature War	p. 225
Kierkegaard, Socrates, and the Continental Op	p. 230
Christianity's New Heartlands	p. 243
Islam in Jeopardy
Christian, Muslim, Jew	p. 257
Crisis of Faith in the Muslim World-and the Islamist Response	p. 280
Demographics and Depression
The End of Leverage	p. 291
The Keynes Conundrum	p. 306
Written jointly with Reuven Brenner
Demographics and Depression	p. 321
The Needle's Eye	p. 334
Written jointly with Reuven Brenner
Endings
Overcoming Ethnicity	p. 347
The Happiest Country in the World	p. 359
Acknowledgments	p. 373
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