Sentences with phrase «cultural decline»
Debates about cultural declines and who could have resisted them or not are hard.
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It is not mere coincidence that America's cultural decline parallels the rise of «gay rights.»»
Thus Henry Adams, believing in the universal applicability of the second law of thermodynamics, predicted necessary cultural decline in The Degradation of Democratic Dogma, while Spengler espoused a theory of cycles that was neither democratic nor Christian.
Growing populations are associated with progress; shrinkage has often correlated with cultural decline.
Casaubon's Book — several essays and how - to articles a week from author, mother and farmer Sharon Astyk James Kunstler's blog — peak oil commentary with a special focus on cultural decline.
The cultural decline of the white middle class doesn't get discussed.
To deny that it signifies a moral and cultural decline is willful blindness.
It says that the dire trend of most black children having no father around isn't a sign of «moral or cultural decline.»
As tends to happen whenever orthodox Christians gather, the conversation turned to cultural decline.
Aware of the cultural decline of the West and of the weakening of Western civilisation, non-Western cultures are sitting on the fence: seduced by modernity, wanting to participate in the process of globalisation, they also want to remain faithful to their identity.
To be more cynical, it could be a sign of cultural decline.
It was one of a number of sensationalized scandals splashed on the front pages of both the tabloids and the «legitimate» newspapers during the early 1990s, a period of political reaction and cultural decline.
The passion of expressionist painting and cinema, the fragmentation grenades of Dada, the idealism of the Bauhaus and realism of Neue Sachlichkeit — these German art movements of the early 20th century did not give way, as in France, to cultural decline but instead burned on into the 1960s and 70s, when Joseph Beuys showed that art can still reach into myth and memory to renew the world.