Decadence

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The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things-bread and circuses!

Juvenal

Satires

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Topic

Decline of civilization Decadence

Author

Juvenal

Source

Satires

Medium

Poem

Language

Latin

Time

127 120s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 10.

Current Citation

Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 10.

Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

Taxi Driver

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Topic

Authoritarianism Decadence

Speaker

Travis Bickle

Actor

Robert De Niro

Source

Taxi Driver

Medium

Film

Genre

Neo-noir Crime (film) Crime

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Taxi Driver. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Bill/Phillips Productions/Italo/Judeo Productions, 1976.

We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world.

Juvenal

Satires

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Topic

Decadence

Author

Juvenal

Source

Satires

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

Latin

Time

127 120s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 6.

Current Citation

Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 6.

In a dying culture, narcissism appears to embody-in the guise of personal "growth" and "awareness"-the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment. The custodians of culture hope, at bottom, merely to survive its collapse.

Christopher Lasch

The Culture of Narcissism

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Topic

Decadence Personal growth

Author

Christopher Lasch

Source

The Culture of Narcissism

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lasch, Christopher. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. W. W. Norton & Company, 1979, ch. 10.