“When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.” PeopleFormCultureDyingNot AfraidInsecureNew CulturesOld Culture Author:Rudolf Bahro
“Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'” WorldHas BeensCultureLanguageCitiesCenturyDyingEqualCelebrateLabelsAttachmentFierceStereotypeResentCivicsReflexesCalcuttaDysfunctionFerocity Author:Bharati Mukherjee
“We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society, and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of the regeneration of individuality, liberty, community, and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another, and with the divine intelligence such as the world has never dreamed.” KnowsWorldYearsAgeCultureNatureBornCommunityLibertyStruggleGreaterSocietyDyingPossibilityDivineEvolutionEthicsHarmonyInstitutionsIndividualityOld AgeShiftingNonconformityRegenerationEnlightened Society Author:Dee Hock
“English is big business and languages are dying as never before. Is there a connection? Is this another manifestation of McDonaldisation – the undesirable face of globalization? Do we want to lose the variety of languages and all the rich culture that comes with them?” WantBigsFacesCultureLanguageLosesRichDyingConnectionsVarietyManifestationGlobalizationBig BusinessUndesirable Author:Patricia Ryan
“Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and culture-bound, not only in the past but in the present too. The people who took their lives, the paths which led them to that end, and the experience of dying in this way were deeply influenced by specific historical circumstances. Only by making a greater effort at historical understanding can this most secret house of death be made to yield up more of its confidences.” PeopleWayMayMadeEndsPastFormCultureHouseSexUnderstandingEffortSecretPovertyPathGreaterDyingCircumstancesSuicideHistoricalBoundsYieldBritish History Author:David Cannadine
“Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.” PeopleCultureDyingDiedTribesClansExtended Family Author:Stanislav Grof
“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.” ThinkingLooksSoulLastsMotherDesireDiesCultureWishLosesCommonEffortHalfDarknessSuccessfulFireChildhoodDyingCreationProduceColdCivilizationGravesDawnGrayRomeWearyWombReluctantRomanticismDaylightClassicism Book:The decline of the West Source: The decline of the West