/lit/ - Literature

>>18759770
The Coming Caesars. It's based on Oswald Spengler's philosophy of history.
But the Roman empire is the wrong comparison, modern USA is morphologically equivalent to the late Roman republic. Which is the argument made in The Coming Caesars.

Some notes i took while reading

>Nietzsche's herd man is the man of urban civilization; in 1954 the farm population of America was 23 percent, in 2020 it is 2 percent.
>Cultures fight over ideas, Civilizations fight over economics. Europe and Greece represent the former, America and Rome the latter.
>Hitler's Germany was the last idealistic war in Europe before it was crushed by American civilization
>Civilization is the inevitable consolidation of men and ideas once Culture burns itself out; it is not a negative phenomenon, but a necessary transition
>American civilization is the old age of European culture
>America's ideological conservatism and distrust of philosophical ideas is bolstered by the complete ascendency of women, the conservative minded sex. Civilization can only be secured on these feminine foundations
>culture is rational, civilization is feminine. This is because materialists cannot fulfill their religious instincts metaphysically, but emotionally, like a female
>Americans are psychological socialists without having any awareness of the fact
>hero worship is an integral part of the American soul; initiative belongs to the individual, not the group, so democracy inevitably places more and more power in the hands of one man
>American men are perpetual children and women are the only adults. Americans are obsessed with love and romance due to the absolute predominance of the feminine principle in their society
>feminine public opinion looks for a virile Caesar
>culturally moribund Europe has become irreversibly Americanized; today we are all Americans