What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.

Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is sufficiently hard to shatter myths is ultimately self-destructive.

THE PRIDE OF ENLIGHTENMENT! POVERTY MAKES FOOLISH ONE'S PRIDE IN ONE'S ENLIGHTENMENT.

Overall, it seems that we have to accept that Western civilization will decline. It is, essentially, inevitable.

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

The roots of the problem lie with foreign policy rather than in society, civilization or American culture,