"Aeschylus, we must remember, lived through the great Crisis in which that Greek civilisation, to which we our own owes so great a debt, was threatened by alien hosts".[Roberts, 'Patriotic Poetry']

The Persian invasion which threatened the Greeks; the Mongolian invasions which later threatened the life of Europe: the Spanish Armada which threatened Shakespeare's fellows ...What is the threat today?

The philosopher Alain de Benoist made the following observations from a sophisticated Good European coign of vantage;"The greatest threat is the levelling down of people, the reduction of all cultures to a 'world civilisation' made up of what is the most COMMON.

"To say that our society is in crisis is just a platitude: Man IS A CRISIS.He is a tragedy.In him nothing is definitely SAID.

If egalitarianism is reaching its 'FINAL stage of affirmation', what will succeed it will necessarily be something different. Moreover, if the present world is the materialisation of the end of a cycle, it is equally clear that the only source of inspiration possible for what must be born is something which has preceded what has just occurred.The projective force for the future resides in the SPIRIT of the remotest past".[de Benoist, 'Ideas Put Right' 1980]

Here is Nietzsche's Eternal Return and the 'Transvaluation of Values' by another name!