/lit/ - Literature

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While Spengler is based, I ultimately agree with Koneczny's criticism of him. Social cycle theories are largely constructed on an aprioristic basis and as such are poor at actually explaining history, instead of coming up with cycles and then fitting a series of facts onto them, one should focus primarily on testing laws of civilisational activity and then applying them on to historical analysis.

Koneczny found three:
1. Civilisations* can't be synthesised (united in every aspect). This is a logical necessity, you can't have the doctrine that every piece of land and every subject is the personal property of the Sovereign found in the Turanic civilisation with the doctrine that public and private spheres are co-independent entities found in the non-byzantinised parts of Europe. And neither is compatible with doctrine that all civic and property rights eminate from the state found in byzantine europe and prussia.
2. Civilisational mish-mashing results in the infighting of the mixture's components. If you take the family structure found in the non-byzantinised europe and mix it with a turanic or byzantinic government structure they will naturally trend to one's dissolution.
3. Less sophisticated civilisations have comparitive advantage against more sophisticated ones. More sophisticated civs have more fragile legal systems which can lead to infighting and similair behaviours, less sophisticated civs have less of that and can exploit this advantage. This doesn't mean more sophisticated can't overcome this disadvantage, the way out of this is the promotion of virtue in public life through such ideologies such as nationalism.

* to quote a summary of Buckle: literature and government are, at the best, the products and not the causes of civilization.

As such analysing the current state of the world, we're fucked and there is no glorious guaranteed ceasar to save us. We have an elite that wants to synthesise all the civilisations together, and such cause chaos due to the civilisational fighting. And since the same elite works to destroy any nationalist force, the people of the west are humiliated and subjugated to the Prussianistic Managerial State.
And unless there's a religious and national revival in the west, we are going to die as a civilisation.