![]() ![]() Indeed, maybe it is already? This would explain all the banality we see on television every day, all the terrible music on the radio. Or perhaps the scene can be better compared to the Fall of Man in Milton’s poem, a grand cosmic undoing, followed by the heroic struggle against the inevitable.īesides the sublime tragedy of Rome’s decline, it fascinates because it gives us a foreboding of what might happen to us. ![]() Like a Macbeth or an Oedipus, the Empire succumbs to itself, brought down by its own efforts at self-expansion. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is one of my favorite books, not only because it is written so beautifully, but because of the spectacle of decline-of a great empire slowly and inevitably crumbling. The Decline of the West by Oswald SpenglerĪll genuine historical work is philosophy, unless it is mere ant-industry. ![]() Summertime in Andalucía: Málaga and SurroundingsĢ023: New Year… on From Gold to Glory: A Slice of…Ģ023: New Year… on Summertime in Andalucía: Three…Ģ023: New Year… on Summertime in Andalucía: …Ģ023: New Year… on Summertime in Andalucía: Jerez….Summertime in Andalucía: Jerez and Cádiz. ![]()
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