/lit/ - Literature

>just like be an engineer now that other shit's done for lmao
bravo oswald

fuck he was so right

>>12087350
LOOK AT THE SHAPE OF HIS HEAD

But for real guys we are fucked.

memes aside, Spengler is fucking scary. How can anyone ignore this guy when he's only been proven correct over and over?

>>12088527
He nailed the modern era on the head in many ways. But we're no longer in the modern era

based AND redpilled

>>12087350
And start putting words on paper!

bump for spengler threads

>mfw Spengler cured me of anxiety, depression, politics and atheism and ignited an interest in mathematics
Why is he so based bros?

No.12088446

>>12072124

OP from Kissinger thesis thread here.

Like I said, going to try to scan it this weekend, and when I do, I will post a new announcement thread. For now, we can keep all discussion going in this Spengler thread.

who is this guy and what did he do

>>12090600
German philosopher of history of the early 20th century, read the wikipedia page for his book 'Decline of the West'.

>>12090468
He did the same for me too. It's actually almost counter-intuitive because he presents a philosophy of history which is completely fatalistic, but instead of inducing nihilism or apathy, he urges you to do your duty, to play a meaningful role in the fulfillment of the Western tragedy.

>>12090629
Anxiety and depression are both caused by an incoherence of the exterior and the interior.

>wash your civilizational penis

>>12088567
What do you mean though? He is so far nailing the contemporary era as well. Some of his predictions even run further into the future. We really are living in the winter of western civilization; caesarism and the second religiousness are probably just around the corner.

>he rejected National Socialism due to its racialism

lol vapid cuckold

>>12090681
Not entirely accurate. He rejected the biological aspect of racialism, believing that a metaphysical conception of race was more appropriate.

ok vin diesel

>>12090686
Race is composed of three parts, Body, soul and spirit. Denying the body, or the bodies influence on metaphysical race, is full retard. He didn't come off as someone with anything substantial to say on the subject, and wasn't merely critical of the scientific accuracy of biological race (which was supra-natural anyway) he was just a vapid anti-racist.

>>12090468
>ignited an interest in mathematics
i need this, which book did that to you?

>>12091976
Try second chapter of volume I of decline of the west or man and technics

He's such an awful writer

>>12090468
I had a nice period of this back in 2013-2015 but then things got very spooky for me around 2016 and the world stopped seeming Spenglerian and more like it was inhabited by all sorts of arcane demonic and angelic forces and now nothing makes sense anymore

I remember that feeling of absolute lucidity i got upon understanding his basic idea though

Does he write anything about music i.e. he was in a middle of dodecaphonic/stravinsky revolution, so he probably had some nasty things to say?

>>12092325
yes quite a bit

>>12092325
He doesn't really care about any music after Wagner I don't think. Art music peaked for him with the high Baroque merge into classical. He goes on quite a bit about the relation between counterpoint, polyphony generally, and the prime symbol of Faustian culture, as expressed through things like the Gothic Cathedral and the mathematical function.

LookingForward.jpg, guys.

Is there any prerequisites I should have before reading him?

>>12092444
>prerequisites
maybe Lamprecht or other German historical philosophers.

>>12087350
You don't have to tell me twice if you know what I'm saying fellas

>>12092444
Just make sure you didn't buy an abridged version accidentally.

>>12087350
Jokes on you I nevet started