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Believe it or not, Spengler actually argued that the rise of issues like vegetarianism and teetotaling are typical of a late-stage civilization.
"This decisive turn towards the one remaining kind of life — that is, life as a fact, seen biologically and under causality relations instead of as Destiny — is particularly manifest in the ethical passion with which men now turn to philosophies of digestion, nutrition and hygiene. Alcohol questions arid Vegetarianism are treated with religious earnestness — such, apparently, being the gravest problems that the “men of the New Order,” the generations of frog perspective, are capable of tackling. Religions, as they are when they stand newborn on the threshold of the new Culture — the Vedic, the Orphic, the Christianity of Jesus and the Faustian Christianity of the old Germany of chivalry — would have felt it degradation even to glance at questions of this kind. Nowadays, one rises to them."
