It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.

Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time.