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Matt Walsh referenced the book to illustrate his claim that cultural progressives recycle old ideas and are stuck in a cultural stalemate. He quoted the author's description of society as stagnant and decadent, using it to argue that the left struggles to recognize its own generational recycling. The discussion presented the book as a useful illustration of this viewpoint.
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Matt Walsh cited Ross Douthat's book Decadent Society to argue that cultural progressives recycle old ideas, describing society as stagnant and decadent.
Ross Douthat made this point in his book, Decadent Society, which he quoted in response to Jennifer Lawrence's flub. And reading from the passage is what he says. The reality of recurrence may be slightly harder for progressives to acknowledge than conservatives because progressivism is more invested in its supposed position at the vanguard of cultural change, pressing boldly on to new frontiers. This makes it difficult for the left to recognize the generational recycling of its ambitions and anxieties.
Now his book, Decadent Society, is about, as you may have guessed, decadence. We are a decadent society in the sense that we, as Douthat has it, are locked in this kind of cultural stalemate, treading water, adrift, bored, recycling the same ideas and themes.
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Matt Walsh referenced Ross Douthat's book The Decadent Society and explained that it outlines Douthat's theory that society is not collapsing but merely languishing in decadence.
I've mentioned before Ross Douthat's book from a few years ago called The Decadent Society, which outlines his theory that we aren't, we aren't really, we're not exactly collapsing as a society. He says, but rather we are languishing in decadence.
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He noted that Douthat argued we are in a period of cultural paralysis he calls decadence, where new ideas are scarce and society merely repeats old ones.
A few years ago, the author Ross Douthat wrote a book called the decadent society.
In the book, he argues that we are on our way to, and in fact already in, a period of stasis of cultural paralysis, what he calls decadence.
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Matt Walsh cited Ross Douthat's book Decadent Society to argue that cultural breakthroughs are often recycled rather than truly novel.
Ross Douthat made this point in his book Decadent Society, which he quoted in response to Jennifer Lawrence's flub.
The reality of recurrence may be slightly harder for progressives to acknowledge than conservatives because progressivism is more invested in its supposed position at the vanguard of cultural change, pressing boldly on to new frontiers. This makes it difficult for the left to recognize the generational recycling of its ambitions and anxieties.
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Walsh said the book explained that decadent societies repeat themselves, run out of new ideas and end up recycling old ones over and over again.
First, one of the hallmarks of a decadent society and this is explained quite eloquently in the book, The Decadent Society, which you should read if you haven't, is that it repeats itself. It runs out of new ideas and just starts recycling old ideas over and over again.
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Walsh noted that a recently released book titled The Decadent Society was a good read and used it to argue that the dog videos exemplified societal decadence.
You know, there's a book that came out recently. It's a good book called The Decadent Society and I think that these videos are all the proof you need that we live in a decadence.
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He described the book as exploring a future of indefinite stalemate and cultural stagnation, noting it had just been published a few months earlier and that he would recommend it.
This is the possibility that Ross Douthat, if that's how you pronounce his name, I can never quite figure it out, explores in the Decadent Society, a book that just published a few months ago, which I would recommend. He argues that we're doomed for a while at least to drift along aimlessly in political and cultural stalemate, not collapsing catastrophically, but also not achieving or advancing in any particular direction.
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He said the book was compelling and offered a critique of contemporary culture as stagnant and repetitive, arguing that we live in a decadent society.
there's a book out now by Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist, and he wrote a book called the decadent society which I'm reading right now and I actually find it pretty compelling.
he makes the case that we live in a decadent society and he doesn't define decadent the way most people think of it; for him a decadent society is one that's sort of stagnant, stale, repeating itself, kind of running in place, nothing's really happening.
he talks about a lot of evidence of this decadence, many indicators, and one of them is in the area of cultural output, like the endless remakes and the fact that the number one movies are always star wars franchises, showing we are just recycling the old over and over.