As I've mentioned before , Western culture (which is now essentially a global hegemony) is dying.   The religious devotion to progress in the modern age is slowly waning, as well, and everyone - especially the working class - is slowly seeing the cracks through the viewfinder.    But while the inherent recognition that this culture is experiencing its death by a thousand cuts may be real, the acceptance and tolerance of it are more often than not outside our wheelhouse, and a great many of us are likely to experince very real grief over the course of this shift.   Before I step to far into this, though, I want to make sure my readers understand me when I talk about the death of western civilization, and understand what I mean when I refer to its death.  There are a number of writers who deal quite cohesively with this topic: John Michael Greer , Tom Murphy , Tim Watkins,   Javier Vinos,   Ahnaf ibn Qais , Dimitry Orlov , and many more.  ...