John Derbyshire Quote

Western culture is in its twilight; there is a dark age ahead; and while college-humanities fads and "secular-progressive values" have certainly done much damage, they are symptoms, not causes - fragments of junk sucked into a vacuum. The fundamental reason why so much of our culture is shit - either literally, like Signor Manzoni's masterwork, or figuratively - is exhaustion, cultural exhaustion.


We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (2009)


Western culture is in its twilight; there is a dark age ahead; and while college-humanities fads and secular-progressive values have certainly done...

Western culture is in its twilight; there is a dark age ahead; and while college-humanities fads and secular-progressive values have certainly done...

Western culture is in its twilight; there is a dark age ahead; and while college-humanities fads and secular-progressive values have certainly done...

Western culture is in its twilight; there is a dark age ahead; and while college-humanities fads and secular-progressive values have certainly done...