Reading Decline and Fall | Alexandria
Read Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh. Skewering British social decline through wickedly dark satire, this masterwork exposes how civilizations crumble not from external threats, but from the very institutions meant to preserve them. Waugh's genius lies in showing that societal decay often masquerades as progress - a warning that rings eerily true in our own era of performative virtue and institutional failure.