Before revision: "The great summit of declinism" according to Adam Gopnick, "was established in 1918, in the book that gave decline its good name in publishing: the German historian Oswald Spengler's best-selling, thousand-page work The Decline of the West."
After revision: One criticism of the assumption that the idea of the world getting worse is a cognitive bias is that it follows from the assumption that any idea of global warming being bad should be dismissed as "cognitively biased", since the climate was less globally warmed in the past and will be more globally warmed in the URL"The great summit of declinism" according to Adam Gopnick, "was established in 1918, in the book that gave decline its good name in publishing: the German historian Oswald Spengler's best-selling, thousand-page work The Decline of the West."