/lit/ - Literature

>>4695294
>stable society
stop right there criminal scum

The stranglehold of Frankfurt School philosophy has over academia, and thus society, is what will destroy the West.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/mar/14/nasa-civilisation-irreversible-collapse-study-scientists

Seems like the ghost of Oswald Spengler is making the rounds of newsheadlines?

Cyclical civlizations /lit/ what do you think?

>>4648839
This thread needs a picture of Oswald Spengler.

"To return to Marcion himself, it was he who carried through the idea of
"John" and created a Christian Bible. And then, verging on old age, when the
communities of the extreme west recoiled from him in horror,^ he set out to
build the masterly structure of his own Redeemer-Church.^ From 156 to 190 this
was a power, and it was only in the following century that the older Church
succeeded in degrading the Marcionites to the rank of heretics. Even so, in the broad East and as far out as Turkestan, it was still important at a much later date, and it ended, in a way deeply significant of its essential feeling, by fusing with the Manichasans.®

Nevertheless, though in the fullness of his conscious superiority he had
underestimated the vis inertia of existing conditions, his grand effort was not in vain. He was, like Paul before him and Athanasius after him, the deliverer of Christianity at a moment when it threatened to break up, and the grandeur of his idea is in no wise diminished by the fact that union came about in oppsition to, instead of through, him."

You have to admit, whatever else may be said about him, the Decline, in retrospect, has a point.

>>4596483
he is a degenerate artist and promotes spiritual decay

>actually believing that history develops in a linear fashion
>actually believing that humanity "progresses" over time

tippest of the toppest of the tip top spenglarian keks

>>4314575

>2013
>actually believing that contemporary academia opposes censorship

I warned you about the Magians, bro.

I told you, dog.

What does /lit/ think of Alister Crowley and his "decline of the west" ?

I have been trying to locate a copy of Oswald Spengler's "The Decline of the West" but am having extreme difficulty finding a copy that is unabridged. I purchased the abridged version, but it is extremely shortened, not Spengler's words, and is basically a paraphrase that radiates the authors bias. I have two questions. First, I have read summaries of the book, but wanted to know of the intellectual level of the book. Does it hold up or is it a relic of outdated pseudo-intellectualism? Second, has anyone an idea where I might find an unabridged copy?

>>3812623
>>3813188
>the Frankfurt School's criticisms
You mean the ones they ripped off from Oswald "Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes" Spengler?

>47 posts
>no Spengler

>There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money – and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

This thread is horrifying

>>1704326
[A] No.

>>1686134
>Don't read Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn. Neither of them are historians, yet they write about history and such. Personally, I prefer Cornel West.

That's a pretty unfortunate lineup, there.

>this thread

Hilarious, OP. Can't stop laughing.

Looking for an unabridged copy of Decline of the West. Any recommendations?