I’ll have to bookmark Burham for later reading, thank-you. Well, the good news is a hundred years is a long time and we won’t be here to witness the completed collapse of Western Civilization.
You'll have to buy a copy. I bought one maybe 15 years ago, and at the time it was out of print. It's a good read, not difficult.
The biggest takeaway for me was that a society that doesn't believe it is superior, is doomed to extinction.
LOL. Sort of my view as well. Some things are bigger than any of us - a world-wide spiritual battle is afoot, I am sure. I am shocked at many of the changes I've seen in my 40 or so years of paying attention. If it had occurred over a period of say, a year, there would have been open revolution.