/lit/ - Literature

>>23379590
>That passage is not saying he affirms what is happening, just that he sees it as a deterministic historical cycle.
My point was clear in that it was a natural part of the cycle.

>I've deeply read Pentti Linkola, Ludwig Klages, Evola, Kaczynski, and David Skrbina. David Skrbina adequately summarizes thinkers like Ellul, Heidegger and more. Metaphysics of Technology was my favorite, but I don't agree with it on everything
I am reading several of these authors right now, Evola and Heidegger specifically, both in text and audio.

>I have reviews on Goodreads that go more in-depth with actual citations.
Do share them or a snapshot of them.

>Spengler views industrialization as a negative but unavoidable/inescapable in the historical cycle as far as I can tell from that passage.
He does not view it as a negative, only a symptom of decline and gradually fulfillment of the High Culture that displays it. One does not view the wilting of a flower as a negative, or the gradual aging of a well lived life as a negative. Neither is this, it has neither positive nor negative qualities, it simply is. How one then deals with this symptom can be taken in a myriad of different way that can celebrate life or condemn it.

>>23379603
Good Goy.

>>23333993
Average blue collar lad here. Yes, read. If only because it is a far better choice than every other mass media out there. I have bought several books that I thought I would enjoy and understand but upon beginning them I am unable to follow, Carlyle is a notable one, but I will put him back on the shelf and try again after reading more and broaden my ability.

>>21504554
This is a quote by a man who inspired the world-view of the author.

>>21499793
As an example of why I keep shilling this >>21498972 book. Picrel is the opening quote from it by an author who no doubt inspired the author of the work.