Full Stop, Engineer

'Full Stop, Engineer' is a series of philosophical essays on the actual state of the Western civilisation, written in the Spenglerian tradition. In its eleven chapters, Dr Roemer addresses such subjects as medicine (with organ transplants being our 'civilisational sin'); everyday work (which becomes progressively monotonous, unimaginative, and standardised); romantic love (with the tradition of chaste betrothals 'lying in tatters'); sex as a new cult; cultural taboos lifted by modernity; the 'unperturbedly unscientific' principles of the woke narrative; national legal systems and some 'strange exceptions' they allow for; classic and popular art; education with its failures, and religion that in today's West 'has become an entirely private matter.'* * *"e;There would be no need to write another version of 'The Decline of the West' if it were already possible to say in 1918 everything which can be said about the current socio-cultural situation ninety-six years later. For Spengler, the glorious sun of our civilisation was solemnly setting (or going under, hence Der Untergang des Abendlandes, The Downfall of the Occident, which is the literal translation of his book s German title). For us, the sun is irrevocably set, and a long night lies ahead. (One wonders if there will appear any little star to twinkle for us and to guide the traveller in the dark. So far, the firmament of contemporary culture remains pitch-black.) Spengler described the historical period that the West was going through a century ago as the beginning of the winter. We, on the contrary, have only days maybe hours which still divide us from this winter s coldest and most merciless winds."e;