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	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: The Decline of Western Civilization
		As indicated by the title, The Decline of Western Civilization: Part III is the third movie in Penelope Spheeris' documentary series about the evolution of the punk rock genre and its fandom.
		Decline I, Spheeris' directorial debut, was released in 1979 and presented an unvarnished (yet generally favorable) view of the punk rock phenomenon as it existed during the '70s.
		The Decline of Western Civilization: Part III is opening in a scattershot fashion across North America throughout 2000, with all proceeds from its theatrical run going to a charity for homeless boys and girls.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Decline-of-Western-Civilization (884 words)

	Western World Characterization @ HotAndCold.com (Hot and Cold) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Originally defined as Western Europe, most modern uses of the term refer to the societies of Europe and their close genealogical, linguistic, and philosophical colonial descendants, typically included are those countries whose dominant culture is derived from European culture.
		Western society is claimed to follow an evolution that began in ancient Athens, continued through the Roman Empire and, with the coming of Christianity (which had its origins in the Middle East), spread throughout Europe.
		As the eastern and western churches spread their influence, the line between "East" and "West" can be described as moving, but generally followed a cultural divide that was defined by the existence of the Byzantine empire and the fluctuating power and influence of the church in Rome.
	www.hotandcold.com /encyclopedia/Western_world (1540 words)

	The Decline of Western Civilization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Decline of Western Civilization is a rockumentary film directed by Penelope Spheeris about the Los Angeles punk rock scene in 1979 and 1980.
		Featuring concert footage of legendary L.A. punk bands, and interviews both with band members and with the punks who made up their audience, the film offers a look into a subculture that was largely ignored by the rock music press of the time.
		Eerily, the promotional poster for The Decline (and the record cover of the soundtrack album) featured a close-up frame of Germs singer Darby Crash supine on stage with his eyes closed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Decline_Of_Western_Civilization (292 words)

	The Decline of Western Civilization III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Decline of Western Civilization III was a 1998 documentary directed by Penelope Spheeris.
		It received its premiere screening at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998, and was also shown at the Sundance Film Festival and the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
		This film follows two separate movies; The Decline of Western Civilization and The Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Decline_of_Western_Civilization_III (184 words)

	The Decline of Western Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Decline of Western Civilization is a rockumentary by Penelope Spheeris about the Los Angeles punk rock scene in 1980.
		Decline of The West is a book squarely beyond the range of typical modern literary critique.The fact that Dr.Spengler discovered a true existence of a living form in the history- and life-cycles of civilizations has been deliberately ignored by critics.
		The viewpoint of Spengler on the decline of the West is an insidious thesis whose continued popularity and beguiling appeal endures notwithstanding the severe flaws that emerge on closer examination.
	www.freeglossary.com /Decline_Of_Western_Civilization (442 words)

	Review: The Decline of Western Civilization: Part III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Unlike the previous two movies, which were focused primarily on the punk music scene and the musicians, Decline III looks at today's fans, most of whom weren't born when Decline I was released (although, as Spheeris discovers, many of them have are familiar with it).
		Although most of Decline III is focused on the fans, Spheeris takes time out to engage in sit-down chats with a couple of bands, Naked Aggression and The Resistance, to discuss their beliefs and how they view the punk phenomenon.
		With Decline III, she has made her most successful and compelling motion picture to date, opening a window on a segment of society that most of us do not understand.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/d/decline3.html (961 words)

	Lecture 14: The Decline and Fall of Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It would take Western Civilization nearly ten centuries to recover and refashion a world which could be the rival of the civilization of Rome.
		Gods and goddesses were common to both civilizations and yet as time passed it was the virtuous life of the good citizen that was of supreme importance.
		This civil religion was a secular, pagan religion, in which all men devoted their energies toward public service to state.
	www.historyguide.org /ancient/lecture14b.html (1381 words)

	The Decline Of Western Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Decline of Country and Western Civilization Part II: The...
		It's a diatribe about, as you said, the decline in Western civilization, the rise of a kind of religious messianism, in which he believes.
		One of the distinguishing characteristics of western civilization, as future students of it may note, is that its doom has...
	www.wikiverse.org /the-decline-of-western-civilization (233 words)

	Amazon.com: The Decline of the West (Oxford Paperbacks): Books: H. Stuart Hughes,Arthur Helps,Charles Francis ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Decline of the West is the magnum opus of Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), a German historian and philosopher.
		The Decline of the West was originally published as two books, and it is a deep and erudite philosophical look at the history of the world, so any small summary is bound to be insufficient to do it justice.
		One of his main theses is a distinction between culture and civilization, which he derives from a credible, if difficult to falsify model for a universal cycle of human cultural growth, followed by decline into advanced civilization.
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		The Decline of the West Oswald Spengler 2 Vol 1930 HC
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	The Decline of Western Civilization - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		While director Penelope Spheeris' second Decline of Western Civilization film examined L.A.'s heavy metal/hard rock scene, her first Decline of 1981 focused on the city's hardcore punk scene.
		The soundtrack to the first Decline takes us back to a time when punk wasn't mainstream-a time when it was underground, cutting-edge and controversial.
		Recorded in 1979 and 1980, Decline boasts what was the cream of Southern California's punk crop at the time.
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		Inside the museum, along with Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, Th photos and old posters, are two items of spectacular note.
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	EastWesterly Review: Nocturnal Transmissions
		When first struck with this notion, that the automatic transmission has caused the decline of Western morals, I was pumped-up and ready to go.
		The decline from a moralistic nation to one condoning bare buttocks in a news story in a mainstream magazine is paralleled exactly by the marketing of the precursors to automatic transmissions.
		No, the moral decline of America is on our own shoulders, or should I say, beneath our feet; it is the automatic.
	www.postmodernvillage.com /eastwest/issue1/1a-0005.html (1604 words)

	Decline of Western Civilization III
		(Decline of Western Civilization II: The Metal Years examined the glam metal scene of L.A.'s Sunset Strip.) Only now receiving national distribution, Decline of Western Civilization III examines the current L.A. punk scene.
		The first two films were essentially comedies haunted by a pervasive undertow of sadness: as funny as it was to hear Nicole Panter describe her attempts to make Darby Crash sing into a microphone, all of his scenes showed someone so befogged with drugs that his death (right after shooting was completed) surprised no one.
		There's nothing funny at all in the relentless final hour of Decline of Western Civilization III, just grim episodes in the lives of abandoned children.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/DeclineWestern.htm (823 words)

	Decline of Western Civilization Part III, The (2000): Reviews
		Those with the stomach to sit through Decline will be rewarded with a lively, masterful documentary.
		Unlike the first two Decline films, this one is only tangentially concerned with music.
		With her unblinking but nonjudgmental eye, Spheeris doesn't shy away from the horrifying, at times violent messes these kids make of their lives, but she is always sensitive to the pain behind everything, to the unhappy futility of squandered potential.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/declineofwesternciviii (355 words)

	Chicken and the Decline of Western Civilization
		And while I'm not advocating a return to the conditions of the 1940s, I will say that one drawback of the present abundance of food in western society is that it's turned us all into big culinary babies.
		In the 1940s, people had to eat what was available, or else they starved; there was no place for idiosyncratic childhood eating habits, the weird aversions children have to certain kinds of food.
		Hand in hand with the rise of processed food has been the decline of cooking, which is well on the way to extinction in Anglophone countries.
	www.plover.net /~bonds/chicken.html (924 words)

	The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1979, when director Penelope Spheeris filmed The Decline of Western Civilization, she looked at punks and punk-rock nihilism.
		That is why The Decline of Western Civilization, Part III is so simultaneously riveting and disturbing.
		Enlightening and energetic, Decline is both a reflection of our civilization seen through the eyes of its most marginal and alienated citizens and a revealing document about our society.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/film.cfm?Film=dec-wes (253 words)

	The Decline of Western Civilization, Part III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The '70s is a period Penelope Spheeris limned unforgettably in her documentary of punk-rock nihilism, The Decline of Western Civilization.
		After taking a detour with heavy metal in The Decline of Western Civilization, Part II, Spheeris returned to the scene with Part III, and one hopes that there's no place to go but up.
		These are not the pierced, mohawked, leather-clad kids who hang out in Harvard Square and then go home to the suburbs -- they're homeless, alcoholic, abused children who live on the street and in squats and whose beatific, furious despair is utterly convincing.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/00/05/11/THE_DECLINE_OF_WESTERN_CIV.html (122 words)

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	Johns Hopkins Gazette: May 12, 1997
		Herman's recently published book, The Idea of Decline in Western History (The Free Press, 1997), is not a book about the decline of Western civilization, however.
		For Herman, historical pessimists are those who cry out against and deplore the decline of civilization, while cultural pessimists have welcomed and celebrated it.
		By coupling the decline of Western civilization with outrages against nature, Gore has not plowed new ground.
	www.jhu.edu /gazette/aprjun97/may1297/herman.html (719 words)

	Movie Info for The Decline of Western Civilization 2: The Metal Years on MSN Movies
		Ozzy Osbourne, Gene Simmons, and Aerosmith's Joe Perry and Steven Tyler are among the Heavy Metal artists interviewed in The Decline of Western Civilization 2: The Metal Years.
		This follow-up to filmmaker Penelope Spheeris' classic 1981 "punk" documentary The Decline of Western Civilization is a bit more reflective and word-dominated than its predecessor, but no less entertaining.
		Interestingly, Spheeris' own style has become more mainstream in the years since Decline of Western Civilization, thanks to experience gleaned on such dramatic films as Hollywood Vice Squad (1986) and Dudes (1987).
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=106844 (177 words)

	The Decline of Western Civilization III . Newcity Chicago . 08-17-98
		Penelope Spheeris' "The Decline of Western Civilization, Part III" is a tender, strangely moving portrait of a particular pack of nomadic street kids, or "gutter punks."
		These drunk, doped, often adorable teens weren't even born when Spheeris' first "Decline," a portrait of L.A.'s then-thriving punk scene, was made.
		The shocking character of this installment contrasts with the more comic heavy metal oriented "Decline II." "Number II was frivolous.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/chicago/d/declineofwesternc1.html (837 words)

	Ummah.com - Gay Marriages - The Step-by-Step Decline of Western Civilization
		Civilizations who openly practice homosexuality will surely become losers and will be punished severely by Allah.
		Despite the fact that thousands of years have gone by, and places, technology and civilizations have undergone many changes, not much has changed in the aforementioned social structures and the etiquettes of the unbelievers.
		According to common sense, science, logic, psychology and religion - i.e all those aspects of present society, that have contributed to its civilization, homosexuality is irrational, illogical, abnormal and an immoral behaviour.
	www.ummah.net /forum/printthread.php?t=27816 (4262 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : The Decline of Western Civilization : Plot
		Not merely a compilation of concert footage, The Decline of Western
		Civilization compiles numerous viewpoints on the meanings of the punk movement, from journalists -- one of whom calls punk the folk music of the 1980s -- to club security guards, to the punks themselves.
		The center of the film, however, is the music, which is fast, loud, and abrasive and often played with purposeful ineptitude; the lyrics are intentionally controversial and shocking, often seeming to embrace violence, sexism, racism, and even Nazism, though usually in an ironic manner.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/40974/plot.jhtml (259 words)

	The Further Decline Of Western Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A: That seems to be pretty self explanatory, but for in depth information, I'd suggest the consulting B.G Brander's "Staring Into Chaos: Explorations in the Decline of Western Civilization", as well as the annotated works of Nostradamus.
		A: Other suggestions are the movie "The Decline of Western Civilization", and the extended linguistic works of Noam Chomsky.
		Q: Isn't the movie "The Decline of Western Civilization" actually a documentary about the Los Angeles punk scene in the 80s?
	www.calpoly.edu /~fghansah/writings/civilization.htm (519 words)

	The View From 1776
		Returning to the topic, by the decline of religion, I mean the reduction of the proportion of population with an understanding of true religion and therefore a concomitant increase in the proportion of the population lacking its guidance.
		It is clear from the article that individual self-restraint fostered by religion is the prime driver of the growth of knowledge, and therefore of civilization.
		Pessimism about the survival of religion, and thence of civilization itself, is unfounded, for the Truth shall continue to triumph, as evidenced by the eradication of various social evils.
	www.thomasbrewton.com /index.php/weblog/2005/04 (6972 words)

	The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Featuring bands such as X, the Germs, Black Flag, Fear, and the Circle Jerks, it was a fascinating and occasionally disquieting exposé of the burgeoning punk movement in L.A.'s musical underground.
		The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years can reside comfortably alongside the great films of the documentary genre like The Filth and the Fury, American Movie, Crumb, and American Dream.
		This is a film well worth seeing, chronicling a small slice of music history, a time and a scene now with its glory days long passed.
	www.urbanoutlaw.com /opinion/2003/0426.html (1139 words)

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