/lit/ - Literature

Spengler was very influential, unlike the other three.
Though Guenon is sitll based.

If Spengler is right about the conclusion of Western though, then where can philosophy even go from here? Will it just be reduced to stagnancy?

>>14178452
The East is also dying. The greatest tragedy of the West's downfall is that it consumed all, and we are now all living in the west.

Im not really into Spengler, but the concept of the second religiosity really intrigues me, because i can see it coming to be all around me as people start to waste their time with astrology, mindfullness, "spirituality" and even witchcraft amongst the woke crowd. Have there been thinkers who further expanded on a return of a degenerate form of religion as society decays?

>tfw just finished Decline
fucking depressing brehs. What the fuck can we do against the march of entropy?
Spengler thread

>tfw just finished Decline and depressed as fuck
So is there no way out? is civilization itself truly doomed?

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>>13857210
>The most grating thing is that they don't hire anyone from philosophy backgrounds. It's basically compsci nerds, HR fuckheads, or people with social science degrees.
Anon you should've known that this was the future

>btfo's all meaningless optimism

Well that was depressing. What the fuck can we even do then? Is the decline of everything inevitable?

People keep saying that Decline was very prescient, but i dont see it. Can anyone elaborate?

Philosophy is dead anyway

Unironically fascism

>if it's not falsifiable then it's useless
>implying history can even be falsifiable
yeah, nah, history is best when you pull things out of your ass and accidentally predict the future

Was he right or not? If his pessimistic outlook is truly correct, then there really isnt much that we can do, is there?
Also why was Spengler really hot in the 1920's, and then suddenly forgotten afterwards?