[BikePacker]

?It's charecteristic on the Western mind to think of itself in perpetual decline.

I hope you're right... but Europe is just about overrun.
And we aren't exactly protecting the ideology of our future populations.

[empirekin768]

At any waypoint along the path of the Grand Narrative over the course of 2500 years, you find our most important thinkers bemoaning the death of virtue, the fall of the old pure ideals, and the imminent collapse of Western Civ. It still hasn't happened you will note.