Claims

Cultural decline begins the moment a society stops generating original meaning and starts recycling old forms, where artists begin to imitate rather than create from inner necessity, museums replace workshops, critics replace creators, and everything becomes self-referential, nostalgic, and ironic.

Hollywood today exemplifies Spengler's theory by producing endless remakes, reboots, and franchise sequels rather than creating new mythologies, mining old intellectual property instead of generating original meaning.

Modern culture has pathologized risk-taking and ambition as toxic, replaced 'become something greater' with 'just be yourself,' and created therapeutic frameworks to help people accept limitations rather than transcend them.

September 11, 2001 demonstrated the Internet's capacity for real-time distributed creative expression, with thousands of individuals creating and sharing photo essays, open letters, and multimedia commentaries that provided alternatives to orchestrated media coverage.

Walt Disney built an empire of creativity by taking stories from the public domain—Grimm's fairy tales, mythology, and other works—and transforming them into new creative works, yet today's copyright law would prevent this kind of 'rip, mix, and burn' creativity that was fundamental to building twentieth-century culture.

Blogs have become a critical platform for unchoreographed public discourse that circumvents the gatekeeping of traditional media, enabling ordinary citizens to participate in democracy through peer-reviewed criticism and alternative analysis of public events.

The doujinshi market in Japan demonstrates that a robust transformative fan culture can flourish despite technically violating copyright law, with over 33,000 circles of creators and 450,000 Japanese attending biannual conventions, suggesting legal protection of derivative works is not necessary for their creation.

American bread is horrible, which is why judging countries by supermarket observations is flawed methodology; even if Carlson had visited Paris, he'd still be wearing a beret and string of onions.