Greek civilization lost its will to live, prefiguring the condition of Europe today. Western historians and philosophers who reject religious faith in the Jewish or Christian tradition and seek a secular model for rationality and political freedom—as, for example, the late Leo Strauss—usually look for a spiritual home in classical Greece. The contributions of Greek civilization are beyond dispute. But in a more decisive way, ancient Hellas presents a cautionary model of civilizational suicide. Which brings us to Spengler’s Universal Law # 19: Pagan faith, however powerful, turns into Stygian
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This is very biased. Pagan China will outlast us all.
