Category

Declinism

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

1776–89 book by English historian Edward Gibbon

The Decline of the West

essay by Oswald Spengler

decline of the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire from 1789 to 1908

degeneration theory

19th-century theory that civilization was declining due to biological change

American decline

term describing the diminished power of the United States

The French Suicide

2014 essay by Éric Zemmour

Declinism is the belief that a society or institution is tending towards decline. Particularly, it is the predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, to view the past more favourably and the future more negatively.