/lit/ - Literature

Where is this "Old Europe" supposed to be? It already unraveled in the 19th century and was thoroughly buried in World War One. These quotes all seem to lament a dying civilization, but haven't we been living a wholly new tradition for at least several decades? We hardly have anything in common with traditional ways of life.
I'm not a conservative, so I'm probably not the right person to dicuss these narratives, but it seems to me that first-world malaise and nihilism stems from fairly objective, socio-economic reasons - the lack of any collective social aim to strive for in opposition to global neoliberalism, and the inability to even formulate one in the decaying political processes of the day. The contemporary youth is nihilistic because they're not complete idiots and know that they don't have much to hope for, except surviving until the next crisis and jumping from one temporary employment to the next, hardly daring to hope for a comfortable retirement. The conditions don't appear to be getting better, and there are good reasons to suspect they will get worse, again, due to fairly commonly understood social easons, and not due to some death of the Noble European, which has been dead for more than a century.

She got mad at the commies and decided to adopt a completely polar opposite philosophy, which is a retarded egoist individualism. Such a worldview can only survive among Americans who are already inculcated into libertarianism and the belief that capitalism is perfect if only you leave every form of social life to the marketplace.

Of course, anyone with a few braincells to rub together understands that capitalism only provides a decent existence when it's regulated and kept in check, whether this is done by the state, trade unions or some other arrangement is another question. But every proper anti-communist understands at least this much, which is why actual capitalists are never libertarian.