The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat
How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
A sharp diagnosis of contemporary Western decline that argues society is not collapsing dramatically but slipping into a quieter decadence: an era of slowed technological and economic dynamism, aging and risk-averse elites, weakened civic institutions, cultural exhaustion, and demographic stagnation that favors comfort, spectacle, and private life over ambitious public projects. The narrative surveys historical parallels and policy, cultural, and moral causes for this stasis, outlines possible outcomes—further decay, renewed activism, or abrupt crisis—and urges a restoration of seriousness, institutional vigor, and long-term thinking to reverse the drift.
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- 2020
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