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EPISODE · Sep 11, 2025 · 18 MIN

Is This How the West Ends?

from Academy of Ideas

“This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.”      T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men Throughout Western history, the idea of civilizational collapse has been bound up with visions of apocalyptic catastrophe caused by invasions, plagues, war, or natural disasters. But today, the greater danger may be a dark age of […] The post Is This How the West Ends? first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

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