Declinism Belief
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A Declinism Belief is a belief or perception that a society, civilization, or institution is tending towards decline or deterioration.
- Example(s):
- a pessimistic view of societal progress;
- a fear of a deteriorating moral fabric;
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Rosy Retrospection, The Decline of The West, Cultural Pessimism, Social Progress, Decline Narrative, Chronological Snobbery, Counter-Enlightenment, Degeneration Theory, Social Cycle Theory, Societal Collapse.
References
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declinism Retrieved:2023-6-22.
- Declinism is the belief that a society or institution is tending towards decline. Particularly, it is the predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, to view the past more favourably and the future more negatively. [1] [2] "The great summit of declinism" according to Adam Gopnick, "was established in 1918, in the book that gave decline its good name in publishing: the German historian Oswald Spengler's best-selling, thousand-page work The Decline of the West."[3]
- ↑ The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang edited by Grant Barrett, p. 90.
- ↑ Etchells, Pete (January 16, 2015). "Declinism: is the world actually getting worse?". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
- ↑ Gopnik, Adam (September 12, 2011). "Decline, Fall, Rinse, Repeat". The New Yorker. Retrieved 20 December 2016.