The Meaning Of Life

The Meaning Of Life

To live is to feel oneself lost — he who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look round for something to which to cling, and that…

Amusing Ourselves To Death

Amusing Ourselves To Death

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt – Juvenal, Roman poet The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied with…

A Civilizational Crisis

A Civilizational Crisis

Painting: The Romans In Their Decadence (1847), Thomas Couture There will be wars the like of which have never yet been seen on earth – Nietzsche, Ecce Homo (1888) Rome was not destroyed by external enemies, but by internal strife. The empire…