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Americans found it harder to live with the more profoundly threatening possibility that they might lose a way of life. From the Arab oil boycott of 1973 onward, the decade was bathed in a cold Spenglerian apprehension that the lights were about to go out, that history's astonishing material indulgence of the U.S. was about to end. Possibilities seemed to contract. Americans tutored in the gospels of progress began for the first time to peer at the future as a possible enemy. A few of them started waving pistols in the gas lines...
...very idea of decadence, with all its fleshly titillations and metaphysical phosphorescence, excites that kind of Spenglerian anxiety. A lot of Americans seem inclined to think of themselves as a decadent people: such self-accusation may be the reverse side of the old American self-congratulation. Americans contemplate some of the more disgusting uses to which freedom of expression has been put; they confront a physical violence and spiritual heedlessness that makes them wonder if the entire society is on a steep and terminal incline downward. They see around them what they call decadence. But is the U.S. decadent? Does...
...talk about 'flight capital.' " A long list of gloomy economic realities -slumping stock values on European exchanges, high unemployment rates, the rise of left-wing parties and the inability of liberal, middle-of-the-road governments to deal effectively with these problems-has prompted a chorus of Spenglerian gloom from European business leaders...
...quickly realized, however, that a continued display of Spenglerian pessimism would only further hamper his actions. In his final year, he sought to move into southern Africa, an area he had long neglected, and tried to create a policy for dealing equitably with the developing nations...
...football game in Philadelphia and again during a talk in 1972. Kissinger declared through an aide that the statement was "pure invention and totally irresponsible." The Secretary has often spoken pessimistically in private about the future of the West, but he has never gone this far, even in the Spenglerian depths of his despair. As for Zumwalt, he stood by his account of what Kissinger had told...