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Is there a good intro into this guy and his thought? Or was he too unsystematic for that
Does he demonstrate a coherent metaphysics?

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who is the smartest person in recent history, and why is it picrel?

Which of Crowley's books are best for someone who is new to Magick and occultism?

>>18477582
Every time someone makes a thread about Spengler and uses this image I get excited because I think it's a thread about Crowley.

What are the best traditionalist books?

was he right? IS he right??

Optimism is cowardice
>>14643399
Why is Hitler the hero of antisemites? Most people were racist and antisemites in early 1900, I can go to my grandma and ask about the jews. It was normal for the time. Also, Hitler was biggest helper in creation of Israel, and why the jews are beyond criticism these days.

World History

So it's impossible to build a very long lasting society?
It seems no matter how hard you try, eventually the population becomes spoiled, lazy and weak. And a less spoiled, more desperate population takes over.

Is this basically what Spengler is saying?

>>14143029
You mean "are you ready to journey the winter season"?

No they are minerals, JESUS MARIE

Why is this man completely ignored by academia despite being right about everything?

>>13628208
>the capacity in which people normally decide to have children
>people decide
Oh sweet summer child

Spengler is the most underrated
>influenced Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Adorno and the entire far right
Get on his level

Has anyone else read Spengler? I'm reading Decline of the West right now and I can't decide if it's genius or whether Spengler is just the 19th-century version of a Tumblrina who denies the existence of objective reality because it hurt his feefees.

>"For the Age has itself become vulgar, and most people have no idea to what extent they are themselves tainted. The bad manners of all parliaments, the general tendency to connive at a rather shady business transaction if it promises to bring in money without work, jazz and Negro dances as the spiritual outlet in all circles of society, women painted like prostitutes, the efforts of writers to win popularity by ridiculing in their novels and plays the correctness of well-bred people, and the bad taste shown even by the nobility and old princely families in throwing off every kind of social restraint and time-honoured custom: all of these go to prove that it is now the vulgar mob that gives the tone.”

NO IT'S A DECLINE! JESUS MARIE

>>9642474
>'further' our world

It's the edge of the world and all of western civilization.

“We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.”
― Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

Has the Blackpill ever been explained so beautifully?

Reactionaries and primitivists are silly and in denial.

>dude lets all just go back innawoods

more naive than commies

Opinions on The Decline of the West and Man and Technics?

I agree with Spengler on all accounts. Is it even possible to refute the idea that the West is on its death bed?