"The big city is the successful suicide attempt of man - the "invigorating" and inorganic diet of meat, alcohol, smoking, bars and the connoisseur world, with the contempt for everything natural, such as: the devaluation of women; swimming trunks, to the shame of those who wear them; the spiritual and moral levels of certain magazines and cinemas; the sterilization of souls by the machines; the rhythms of modern dances and fashion; the whipping up of man by sensations; big advertisements, childlessness, the need for luxury in the big city, and, last but not least, the actual establishment of life insurance policies, or the consumption of artificial fertilizers, along with the erudition of life-dead "scientists", the idle time of administrators, in the proliferation of useless writing, their outflow of novels and "life problems", in the echoing of shallow flattery, the escapism of "intellectual greats" from the world, the flight into magic, mysticism, occult teachings, the attempts to revive already dead religious heritages - all this is morbid, and signs of degeneration.
Everywhere in these fields the counter-attack has been set in motion - not for the sake of a fight, oh no, that would be inorganic, but for the purpose of developing one's own forces and values.
It is amusing to see how decadence even celebrates triumphs today, for it too has awakened forces - thus it celebrates its zenith not only in Germany, but especially in America.
The Jew is the true core of decadence, as his way of life and his views on life are the prototype of the pathological: the devaluation of the economy to the capital market; the devaluation of culture and of women to sensual commodities; the devaluation of peoples, states and people to machines, and the devaluation of every ideal value as a justification for unrestrained instinct and lust.
This is the world we declared war on."
Taken from:
Rüdiger von Steinbach - The Victory of Life is the Meaning of the World
