jueves, 23 de febrero de 2012

Nicolás Gómez Dávila: Decadence Derives from the Change of the Dominant Social Species

From: "Notas", 2003, Villegas, P. 265-266

A state, a city, are in decadence when their present dwellers belong to a social species different from that to which their creators belonged.
When the social predominance passes from one social species to another the phenomenon of decadence is produced, whatever it is the value attributed to the social species that succeeds in the posession of predominance.