/lit/ - Literature

>>22206125
history has no meaning
only life has meaning

>>22059874
>pic related

completely misunderstood. way deeper than "LE EBIN DOOM GUY !1111!!"

it is epic poetry

>>20388064
>pic related
but make sure to read it as a long-form poem as Spengler intended.

>>20215509

>>20088893
read Pic Related as High Poetry as Spengler intended.

it will cure what ills ye

reading this as epic poetry (like Spengler intended) is mind blowing

tl;dr study stem (?)

/Lit/, have you read Oswald Spengler? Do you think he was right in predicting Culture's decay over the next century, when he predicted modernity would begin to decay in 1918? His view is that history ought to be seen not as a linear tapeworm which industriously adds epochs to its body, but as a living organism (a flower) that grows and decays over centuries. What do you think the West will do in the next few centuries?

>only eight mature civs
>Growing cultures develop into imperialistic civs which collapse under their own size
>this makes sense in the context of the mongol empire and that of alexander the great
Why is a mature civilization is necessarily imperialistic?

this completely filtered me. what do i have to read beforehand? is there a reading list?

I like Spengler and The Decline of the West aesthetically but when I went to actually read the book I wasn't able to understand anything. Is there anything with a similar aesthetic but that will be easier to understand. I'm 100% serious

Pretty sure it's been discussed before knowing Nietz is lit/'s boy but i'm really curious how can his philosophy stand after Spengler takes so viciously on his ass

So pretty much African-Americans are the future of the western world and BLM is a second religiosity?

Is this a poem?

Should I read pic related? I did some homework before posting here, it looks like the biggest critiques are that it treats history deterministically, is a little reductive, and that Kissinger likes it. Is it worth reading regardless?

>>11418617
disappointing af if you've read this first. yockey is spengler with a lobotomy

Recommendations about books that try to predict or agree with the idea that "western civilization" is quickly nearing it's end. Pic related, is that book still worth reading?

As a bonus what is your personal opinion about the current state of the world and west?

A second more in-depth read this time. Every time he mentions art, painters, mathematicians, concepts of any kind I take my time to read upon them.

Underrated.

Does anyone have the ePub or Mobi?

There's an epub on archive.org, but it has poor formatting.

Prove him wrong.
Protip: you can't.

What are your thoughts on Oswald Spengler and his book The Decline of the West?
https://youtu.be/FsaieZt5vjk

Don't bother, don't waste your time, buy a house in the country, work a shit job, enjoy yourself, you can't stop it. Let it go.