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This is the question at the heart of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1954 masterwork, *The Lord of the Rings*. Middle-earth is marred by civilizational decline, the loss of hope among men, and a profound sense that the beauty of the past is doomed to decay. This slow fading was the author’s attempt to express something he had felt all his life, which he once described as a “heart-racking sense of the vanished past.”
How to Live Through a Great Decline
The Culturist
“If you are using more words than somebody wants to hear, do you want that person to pretend to listen or to stop you?”
Nonviolent Communication
Marshall B. Rosenberg
When these two together, faith and reason, get together, when they shake hands they ward off the Gnostic catastrophe. And it's always a catastrophe, and it's always going to get taken over by tyrants or run itself into the destructive ground. This is the secret sauce of the West, you can write it down, it's faith bolstered and checked by reason and reason supported and checked by faith, that's what makes the West work.
The Gnostic Parasite | Dr. James Lindsay
Sovereign Nations
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