Is the West due for a new mongol invasion?

**~~JeSB~~** · 12-25-2016, 12:59 AM

Civilizations aren't eternal, and they eventually crumble under their own misdoing. Spengler's widely known thesis works on this.
Last year Viktor Orbán voiced a thought that I think is probably held by an increasing number of people, due to the seeming incapacity of Europe to sort out its existential issues.
http://www.politico.eu/article/vikto...-union-brexit/

“The essence of Hungarian thinking is simple: the European Union is rich, but weak. This is the worst possible combination of qualities” — Viktor Orbán

Other than Spengler, a really telling analysis can be found in J.D Unwin's work, which was endorsed by Aldous Huxley:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Unwin

With an atomized society drunk on hedonism, low birth rates and sterile culture (can anyone think of a single innovative cultural development in the last 20 years?), is Europe and the West at large due to receive the same treatment the First Babylonian dynasty received at the hands of the Assyrians? Similarities are stark. Self-complacent, lazy, super wealthy and ultimately weak polities.

By cultural development I refer to new sociopolitical or sociocultural movement that challenges the status quo with new principles and/or aesthetics.
For all the flack and shortcomings they had, hippies were one decades ago. Music is a really telling sign, the last thing I can think of that had a new concept and aesthetics was the early days of Norwegian black metal in the late 80s and early 90s. I guess one could stretch it to grunge.

Sociopolitically the only new thing going might, and this is a big might, be international jihadism, but that is largely not Western to begin with, so I can't really point my finger at any new political angle since the 60s either. The 'far right' (in the 1930s it wouldn't be worth that label at all) you see today is merely the same liberal supremacism that existed during the Belle Époque in France or the Anglo-American world. The famous white man's burden, now simply looking inwards rather than outwards.