Morris implies that Spengler may have been right about the foreordained blossoming and decay of civilizations, on a far more cosmic scale than he could have imagined: once a society reaches to sun power, and makes nuclear weapons, it destroys itself.
The MPAA and RIAA would love to associate piracy with terrorism, massive theft, and the decay of Western Civilization and, in a way, that's their right.
Decline of civilization, ya think?
The Nile River basin, which covers about one-tenth of the area of the continent, served as the stage for the evolution and decay of advanced civilizations in the ancient world.
The piece layers outside and inside, nature and civilization, rebirth and decay on the ruined stage of our collective imagination: the movie theater.
Kiefer is drawn to the grandness of decay, the remnants of lost cultures, things left in the wake of civilization that implicate us.
A pro-forma attack, denouncing MONA as "the art of the exhausted, of a decaying civilization," came from Australia's leading right-wing journal, Quadrant.
In the ominously titled "Invasions," he writes poems about the threat to civilization represented by the decay of religious faith, consumerism, 9/11, the Iraq war and the passing of the postwar New York intellectuals.
We was out of civilization.
The cradle of civilization yearned for some civilization.
