Video - Decadence: Decline of the Western World documentary trailer.
SMH | LET'S not exaggerate. This is not the end of days. It is merely the end of civilisation as we know it.
That is the sobering argument made in Decadence: Decline of the Western World. Five years in the making, the Australian documentary proposes that the West peaked in 1969 and is now dying.
''The West as we know it today begins with the Magna Carta in 1215,'' Pria Viswalingam, who wrote, produced and appears in the documentary, says.
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''Then came the Renaissance, the founding of America and the Enlightenment, before the West peaked with the social revolutions of the 1960s.
''And 1969 was the peak. The Russians and the Americans took us beyond our earthly bounds, the My Lai Massacre shattered the image of us as the good guys and then there was all the sheer exuberance and peace, love and rock'n'roll of Woodstock before the Rolling Stones 'end of the '60s' concert at Altamont. Decadence depicts the West's decline ever since.''
Viswalingam is a former SBS TV presenter whose credits include Fork in the Road and Class. Having devoted a career to analysing culture and society, he says the symptoms of decay and decadence are unmistakeable.
Those symptoms include soaring suicide rates and the West's addiction to antidepressants. They include rampant individualism, emptying churches, a faltering sense of community and disintegrating families. And they include the West's obsessive devotion to money as the only true measure of worth.
''Treadmill consumption, growing income disparity, B-grade leadership, they're obvious signs of a culture adrift,'' he says.
That is the sobering argument made in Decadence: Decline of the Western World. Five years in the making, the Australian documentary proposes that the West peaked in 1969 and is now dying.
''The West as we know it today begins with the Magna Carta in 1215,'' Pria Viswalingam, who wrote, produced and appears in the documentary, says.
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''Then came the Renaissance, the founding of America and the Enlightenment, before the West peaked with the social revolutions of the 1960s.
''And 1969 was the peak. The Russians and the Americans took us beyond our earthly bounds, the My Lai Massacre shattered the image of us as the good guys and then there was all the sheer exuberance and peace, love and rock'n'roll of Woodstock before the Rolling Stones 'end of the '60s' concert at Altamont. Decadence depicts the West's decline ever since.''
Viswalingam is a former SBS TV presenter whose credits include Fork in the Road and Class. Having devoted a career to analysing culture and society, he says the symptoms of decay and decadence are unmistakeable.
Those symptoms include soaring suicide rates and the West's addiction to antidepressants. They include rampant individualism, emptying churches, a faltering sense of community and disintegrating families. And they include the West's obsessive devotion to money as the only true measure of worth.
''Treadmill consumption, growing income disparity, B-grade leadership, they're obvious signs of a culture adrift,'' he says.
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I would go with that re: point of 1215, yet I would say 1973 recession was the Zenith, and POTUS Carter warned us and he was chump off. And here is The City/State King Bloomberg words:
Mayor Bloomberg got a bit carried away trying to describe the enormous
scope of the city’s sprawling government, calling the NYPD “my own army” and
claiming Washington is jealous that New York has so much clout with the
diplomatic community since the United Nations is here…“I have my own army in
the NYPD, which is the seventh-largest army in the world,” the mayor boasted…“I
have my own state department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance,” he said in a
reference to the US State Department’s location in the capital…It was Bloomberg
unbound during a speech to a conference Tuesday at MIT in Cambridge, Mass…On at
least one point, the mayor’s numbers were way off…Including civilians, the NYPD
is 50,000 strong. That would make it the 46th-largest army in the world,
comfortably ahead of Portugal’s 44,900-person force, according to
GlobalFirepower.com…Stu Loeser, the mayor’s spokesman, insisted that Bloomberg
wasn’t saying anything new…“The point he was making is that New York has its
own foreign policy. All mayors have an outspoken voice [on international
issues],” said Loeser, pointing to City Hall’s pro-Israel stance as an example.
China–2,285,000; USA–1,477,896; India–1,325,000; Russia – 1,200,000;
No. Korea -1, 106,000; So Korea –653,000; Pakistan – 617,000; Turkey –612,900;
Iran –545,000 NY Post
Surprised there is no mention of Liberalism and Parasite Pampering as key mechanisms. From "Obama is gonna buy my gas and make my house payments," we have degenerated to the latest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bavou_SEj1E#!
Yep, y'all messed stuff up for everybody f'sho..., http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/189499-1
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Holy shit, that is the year I picked too. And 2001 was the year of the straw.
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