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Don't break your heart sobbing in your beer over the so-called "death" of the West. You and I could go round and round for months on this (yes, I have a degree in history, and can spout off lots of examples just like you), but since all of the examples and arguments would be based on our respective world outlooks, it would be pointless. I am an optimist. You obviously are a pessimist. I see the coming triumph of the Western ideas of individualism and democracy. You see gloom and ruin. Oh well.

I don't see myself as a pessimist but as a realist. There is a constant war between civilization. The obvious allies of the West is Orthodoxy and Latin but as for the West surviving....I don't know if it will, it is steadly being absorbed by the Islamic civilization. The problem is: unlike all other civilizations, the West has lots of theories but no religion to fall back on. For the most part, the West is post Christian and has lost its way...which is dangerous, which is why the Islamics are growing so fast in converts.