(See Blacks Demise: A Sign Of His Times).
He wrote provocative books and essays about the failure of conservatism and the demise of Western values.
But if the Culmos represent the fun and rare gift of the individual eye — "a very wearable eye," as Katy likes to say — they are also evidence of the demise of those values.
There is no single or simple reason for this rampant misanthropy, but there are many suspects: the effects of unrestrained individualism, the demise of universal values of social integration and cohesion, and the rise of consumer identities which have displaced a love of people for a love of things.
She is right, of course, in the strictest sense of independence as an individualistic or even lonely pursuit; but in an era of widespread anxiety for the demise of family values (and there are many positive ones), there may be another way of looking at this.
We acknowledge that a lack of participation in the past may have contributed to the demise of the values we share and hold dear, but back then we had a president with whom we shared a basic worldview.
If Rudolph Giuliani's candidacy hastens the demise of a GOP values coalition that lately has shown signs of fatigue, Democrats are sure to benefit.
This book has everything: elaborate scams, corporate intrigue, magazine cover stories, ruined family relationships and the demise of a company once valued at nearly $10 billion.
Failure by officeholders of both parties and the mainstream media to stand up and scream about what is happening and demand that the Electors do what the Framers intended for them to do makes them complicit in the demise of American democracy and the values for which our nation has, at its best, has stood.
Fetter's contribution to the Austrian subjectivist tradition, then, is that he "showed how this uniform, subjective theory of value implies the demise of socialist theories of labor exploitation, Ricardian theories of rent, and productivity theories of interest".
