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What are some books/historical works that chronicle the lives of/were written by people experiencing the decline of their civilizations into leftism, debauchery, hedonism, nihilism, etc? For example, some diaries of people living in the late Roman Empire or something. Something in the vein of Augustine’s Confessions.

I need some material to cope with the fact that we’re living in the “Good times create weak men which create hard times” phase of civilization.

>> No.17367101

>>17367088
One hundred years of solitude

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>>17367088
In every period there has always been whining that things are in decline.

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>>17367088
Damn you just go online and admit that you're a brainlet who has a meme-level understanding of history? Couldn't be me.

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Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday is great memoir on Zweig's youth in the latter days and decline of the Habsburg Empire, including details of the educational, sexual social mores of the 20s and the tensions between old and young (felt very similar to Boomer v. Millennial shittalking we see today).

Pic related wrote Minima Moralia which is a long reflection about the steady erosion of basic manners and the family and how all these things led to the catastrophic events of the 20th century.

But you probably won't ready either of them because they're Jews and you're a whiny faggot.

>> No.17367346

>>17367115
It's particularly worse in OP's case, because he has no concrete example of decline.

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>>17367088
At least use the original version anon. You could read History of the Peloponessian War. Not much about leftists but he explains two periods(so far, halfway through) where society basically collapses. Once when the plague hits Athens and later when a ton of civil wars broke out in the colonies between the oligarchs and democrats.

>> No.17367413

Hard times create hard men.
Hard men create harder times.
Harder times create harder men.
Harder men create fractured times.
Fractured times create broken men.