Which historical event(s) led to the downfall of Western civilization?

Which historical event(s) led to the downfall of Western civilization?

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What you call "This" IS Western civilization.

World War Two

The world wars

>degeneracy = downfall
The romans started complaining about degeneracy bringing down their civilization before they even hit halfway in their history.
The west is nowhere near done, even if it's likely going to change significatively from a cultural point of view in the next few decades. And no, I don't mean accepting sexual deviants and mass immigration.

European imperialism/nationalism destroyed europe in WW1

Nazism destroyed Europe in WW2

Then Marxism destroyed eastern europe, while Cultural Marxism destoryed western europe

And now, they are letting islamim finish them off

Industrial revolution

The fall of Imperial structure and Christian moral framework after the fall of the European empires like the German Empire, the British and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The remnants were finally killed off by Socialist, Communist and Fascist movements that forced Europe to search new philosophical and political frameworks, decrying everything that was good for the last 1000 years.
Douglas Murray (I think he quoted someone) called the West "the Icarus who survived the fall and doesn't know what to do now" in "The Strange Death of Europe" and I think it's very fitting.

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Only insofar that Western Civilization has throughout it's history exhibited both vice and virtue. If you mean to say that the ethos of the West is hedonism, you deserve to be nailed to a fucking cross.

The degeneracy isn't the cause of the downfall, but a symptom amongst many of what is actually killing society.

Degeneracy is inherent. It's the negative expression of deviance, and deviance is what progresses society. You can't expect every new idea to be a good one.

Your birth

>t. newfag

I wouldn't say deviation is synonymous with degeneracy.
It's too broad a brushstroke, there degeneracy spoken of in this is getting hedonism. This can't be spoken of in the same light as Socrates' being made to drink hemlock.

Was this image actually old, or a modern joke?

>there degeneracy spoken of in this is getting hedonism
Woof
*The *is hedonism

The first world war

After that the lower classes had higher birthrates than the upper classes.

WW1

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Lel

From the 16th century. The Western civilization never fell, it was shit to begin with.

Jewry

>o tempora o mores
Kek. Why reversed tho?

Text symbolize the fallen virtues that fell so hard even the text about them fell and got turned upside down, so you can't even write about them properly.