Lament for the Nations

What is it like to live at the end of a civilisational cycle? This Substack aims to answer that question. I write about civilisational decline and downfall - what causes it, how to respond to it, and what the scattered remnants of our civilisation might look like. I focus on the transformation of Western institutions and the form of government in late modernity, as well as on the ramifications of unbounded technological progress.

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