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>>18160563
>No we aren't. Spengler tells you exactly what to do: take up Technics.
Can you elaborate? How exactly can one use Technics for good?
I ask this as someone who has contributed to a federated FOSS project and taken an interest in decentralised protocols. It always feels like a losing battle, but if any good can be achieved by it then it would make the whole experience worthwhile. Also I have dozens of books to get through already, but if pic related has broad civilizational implications then I will happily add it to the list.
>Elon Musk is doing this as we speak.
Just him or any other big tech investors? What do you think about Thiel Capital?

Oswald Spengler. (2015) "Man and Technics: a contribution to the philosophy of life", Arktos, London UK.

Spengler's monograph is brief (54p) but develops in an interesting way. Eschewing evidence and references 'Man and Technics' can't be considered a scientific work but as a well-thought out consideration of the West's trajectory and it accomplishes a lot in its short span. Technics as tactics, the psychology of the prey animal, the relationship between the hand and the tool, speech, and 'the machine', are all touched on. Ultimately fatalistic.

Recommended for: those looking for an introduction to Spengler's thought, historians of western thought,

Not recommended for those: in need of historical or anthropological accuracy, already too negative,