[PGR88]

A century later, its obvious that (despite outward appearances) that Western civilization never really recovered from it. Europe today is a continent that has almost totally lost its confidence.

I read one author who said the exact time of the decline and death of western, Christian civilization was when the two-sides soldiers returned to their trenches after spending Christmas together in no-man's land. Before that was hope and confidence, after that moment, only pessimism and death.

[milagro]

W.B.Yeats’”The Second Coming” was written in 1919, and poetically describes the existentialist spirit that haunts our “modern” age.