How can it be that Westerners are not aware of their cultural decadence ?
Artists express this decadence since decades (43), but the Humanists and the artists themselves are clever to explain away art manifestations. Media celebrity and art prices give easily impression of cultural progress, stability in quality, success based on popularity. Capitalism and Materialism measure everything on shortly termed profits. For materialists modern arts have little meaning outside the capitalistic profit system. Since alternative cultural quality measurements have been banned since 1945, there are few possibilities for wider understanding and for corrections. But genuine post-war arts speak for themselves, reveal to more and more observers that anti-modernism is intrinsic to Modernism. Growing numbers of Western artists are depressed and desperate, something many of them manifest by own decadent life style. It’s true though that most Westerners are blind regarding comprehension of their culture, their political road, their treatment of Nature. With no sense for sacredne
