# The Decline of Worlds – Elite Change and Historical Cycles

The modern mind is conditioned to believe in progress, a relentless forward march toward equality, technology, and liberation. This linear view of history is a recent construction. For most of human history, time was not a line. It was a cycle.

Societies rise, flourish, fragment, and fall. Power is never destroyed, it is inherited, corrupted, or seized. This is the rhythm seen across epochs, across empires. The ancients knew it. So did those who studied history without ideological blinders.

## Spengler: From Culture to Civilisation

Oswald Spengler, in The Decline of the West, argued that cultures are like living organisms. They are born, they mature, they reach their spiritual and creative apex, and then they die. The final stage, which he called Civilisation, is not an evolution, but an exhaustion.

A vibrant, mythic “Culture” gives way to a cold, mechanical “Civilisation.” Cities swell. Art becomes imitation. Politics becomes finance. Men lose touch with soil, blood, and spirit. The organic becomes inorganic. The sacred becomes procedural.

This is not collapse by invasion. It is internal senescence. The values that animated the rise, honour, sacrifice, transcendence, are replaced by comfort, individualism, and massification. The “mass man” replaces the hero. Life becomes horizontal, not vertical.

## Evola: The Kali Yuga

Julius Evola, writing from the ruins of a collapsed Europe, drew on the Indo-Aryan myth of the Kali Yuga, the final, dark age of the cosmic cycle. It is an age of inversion, where natural hierarchies are overthrown, spiritual authority is mocked, and chaos masquerades as liberation.

> In the Kali Yuga, the bull of dharma stands on one leg.

It is a time of unleashed entropy, where materialism reigns, virtue is derided, and the mob is enthroned. Feminine values replace masculine ones. Quantity is mistaken for quality. In Evola’s terms, it is not merely decline. It is anti-tradition enthroned.

## No System Escapes

These thinkers diverge in tone, Spengler is tragic, Evola is aristocratic, but they agree on the essence: civilisations decay from within. The decline is not a glitch. It is a law.

The current managerial order, with its rituals of democracy and slogans of inclusion, is not the end of history. It is the late phase of Western Civilisation, sterile, bloated, overextended. It creates nothing. It only manages the decline.

Elites rise with the culture, and fall with the civilisation. As their inner vitality wanes, they become parasitic, obsessed with narratives, metrics, and image. Their rule becomes more brittle, more performative. They are no longer builders. They are curators of entropy.

## What This Means for the Aware

To see this is not to despair. It is to see clearly. To abandon the myth of endless improvement. To understand that decline is not a flaw in the system, it is the system, in its terminal stage.

Nothing lasts forever.

Every world ends.

But the ending reveals the truth.

In Spengler’s words, “the final task of man is to look straight into the sunset.”