“When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard ‘having children’ as a question of pros and cons, the great turning-point has come. For Nature knows nothing of pro and con.”
— Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West
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Now is the winter of our discontent,1 as long-lurking economic issues, the administration’s mind-boggling sloth in dealing with Antifa, and the near-inconceivable and intractible magnitude of the foreigner in America problem become ever more evident. Trump’s tendency toward bathing in the Rubicon rather than crossing it—which has the dual disadvantage of reinvigorating the enemy’s formerly flagging spirit and leaving us without the free hand for fixing things that comes with having crossed it—certainly doesn’t help. So, it’s easy to be depressed, particularly if one is worried about the dire path down which the Occident is headed.