"Everything is short lived. Transitory are not only people, languages, races and cultures. In the next few centuries there will be no more West-European culture, no Germans, Englishmen or French, just as there were no more Romans at the time of Justinian. It was not just the results of human generations that were extinguished; the inner form of the people that grouped a number of them together into a unitary form was not there anymore.” ~ Oswald Spengler, "Decline of the West“, München 1923