Reply #22: Otto Spengler said it.

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Before WWII, he published "The Decline of the West" (Die Untergang des Abendlandes) which said that Western culture was entering it's twilight period. He was a "private scholar" and his books have been picked apart by professional historians, but he was very widely read and discussed in the period between the wars. I don't know how much I buy into his theory of Cultures and their birth, blossoming and decline, but he said we've entered the period of decadence. We can do what we can to contribute to positive movements, but civilization will take its inevitable course.