/lit/ - Literature

how is it related to spongebob again?

>>22638726
happened over a century ago

>Goethe said being is becoming to become, the becoming of the becoming is become clearly evident in becoming the being of the classical culture of the become, as being opposed to Faustian being of becoming
Wow amazing insight Spengler

>>21045582
This (2nd part)

Is there anything of value to be gained from this book or is it all autistic nonsense?

Is this actually worth reading or is it just a schizo meme? Am I going to get anything out of it?

>'According to Spengler, the Western world is ending and we are witnessing the final season, the "winter" of Faustian Civilization. In Spengler's depiction, Western Man is a proud but tragic figure because, while he strives and creates, he secretly knows the actual goal will never be reached.'

>'Spengler predicted that about the year 2000, Western civilization would enter the period of pre‑death emergency whose countering would lead to roughly 200 years of Caesarism (extraconstitutional omnipotence of the executive branch of the central government) before Western Civilization's final collapse.'

The more I read about Spengler, the more he seems to have predicted the future.

This work is more relevant now than it ever has been.

>>15700829
Obviously, they would have been made either fascist or reactionary so neither of those things would have been perceived as necessary

>>15647073
There is nothing left, the fellaheen will consume the world

Reading Decline of the West. What did he mean by the first chapter of volume II, where he explains cosmic rhythm and 'tact'?

Is it worth reading Spengler?

It helped me to see the West as a mode of spiritual existence to be overcome/run through. The paradoxical quest for "self discovery" and feeling of rootlessness is characteristic of Occidental thinking, and there is no escape. Junger envisioned, in the philosophy of Striner, a sort of spiritual overcoming of modernism with the full embrace of the self as a sovereign and ahistorical entity. That might help. For what it's worth African Culture and Civilization isn't Yours, since culture possesses individuals and not the other way around. Like it or not, you're a westerner and this fact is inescapable.

That said, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano might appeal to you.

one of the most important books mankind has created was written in the past 100 years

Cultural Spenglerism is a weak and effeminate ideology of dwelling upon the death and decay of a state - the real form of any "Culture" or "Civilization" or "Nation" or whatever word-of-the-day Spenglerism has for societies. Spenglerism is a deadly ideology that destroys the focus and initiative of its adherents as those adherents pray and pray for a Caesarian figure predicted to prolong the Splenglerian Civilization, yet all in vain as those adherents, instead of being true Roman Legionaries standing tall by themselves , bend to overreliance on a Caesar that will only occur once and from which a stream of ruin shall issue forth. Even worse, Spengleroids predict the doom of their precious Culture anyways, so the "blood power" they predict would overthrow money power is ultimately in vain, as the abject shattering of their Nation and Volk occurs regardless.

Spenglerism, as an ideology of Caesars and Actiums, universalises the particular and particularises the universal without much synthesis being made. "Magian", "Faustian" and "Apollonian", "Culture", "Civilization" are used in very generalising terms, which in his degraded post-Versailles prose, suggest a morbid dulling of historical perspective, but not only that, Occidentalism and Orientalism. Baseless stereotyping and soothsaying replace case studies from which extrapolation of historical trends may meaningfully occur. "Muh culture, muh civilisation, muh Magi" is incredibly tiresome to read.

There is no concrete suggestion of what the Caesar should do to destroy the Carthage of the times, the UK. There is only a funeral procession for Germany, moaning and wailing as the precious German culture is reduced to "civilisation". The German patriot is given negative despair rather than positive hope to defeat Anglo-Carthage.

"The Decline of the West" is indeed a prescient title. This is the very tiresome tome that led to the series of events culminating in Syrianisation of Germany in the first place.

Decline of the West. Which edition do I buy?

>>11073132
Spengler might be right up your alley.

What here makes no sense? What are its flaws?

>>4817089
>Where should I start reading on the subject?

Decline of the West.

>What were some of the key arguments they had?

Inequality, hierarchy and moral authority is good. The West's entire trajectory for the past two centuries since the Masonic Revolt of 1789 has been disastrous. Traditionalists tend to identify with traditional modes of European government, such as mediated Monarchies or Aristocratic Republics.

Are we living in the Faustian age /lit/?

IF ONLY THE FIRST EDITION DIDN'T COST $50,000

no, read this instead

Why is this not in proper print? All i see is crap abridged versions. Is the two volume work available somewhere?