But if they take note of the way in which this disaster has crept up on the Western Church, catching Western Christians unawares, they may be able to avoid the same chain of events afflicting their Church too. The facts speak for themselves,and to label Buchanan a Racist for talking about these issues shows how vicious leftists can be. Buchanan synthesizes a lot of information in these ~300 pages, and even those who vehemently disagree with him will likely be surprised at some of the statistics he presents.

Once one realizes that the comments are not bigoted or racist, the discussion becomes thought provoking and worth pondering. In 1960, people of European ancestry were one-fourth of the world's population; in 2000, they were one-sixth; in 2050, they will be one-tenth. Similarly, since suffrage involves electoral campaigns, which involve donations, elections serve money as well. Buchanan laments the federal imposition of progressive values on the entire country, but then turns around and seems to want federally funded public schools to impose his set of values instead.As an example, Spengler used the Greeks and Romans, saying that the imaginative Greek Culture declined into wholly practical Roman Civilization. What is "civilization" itself other than a tremendous, collective effort to reduce human suffering and increase human comfort?

According to Spengler, the Western world was ending and the final season, the "winter" of Faustian Civilization, was being witnessed. Buchanan is a somewhat controversial figure but his 2002 book The Death of the West is a pretty good account of how our civilisation is being destroyed from within. Conservative or traditionalist readers will find it a revolutionary book, while liberals might be surprised by the intellectual taproots of their philosophy.His thesis is that Western civilization is dying before our eyes as other civilizations in Asia, Africa, and South and Central American rapidly outbreed the peoples of Europe, Australia, the United States, and Canada. In 1921 Otto Neurath published the pamphlet Anti-Spengler and Leonard Nelson wrote a book-length parody Spuk: Einweihung in das Geheimnis der Wahrsagekunst Oswald Spenglers.