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Date of upload: Jan 19, 2014 ^^
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"Urban rationalism sterilizes the culture through criticism" Thats a very important statement in my opinion.. I see that in our news everyday. Theres too many people who have nothing AND are too complacent to doing anything for themselves(to change their condition), YET THEY EXPECT everything.They want all the modern consumer products and quality of living that they see marketed to them everyday on TV, Internet etc.. THAT seems to be a strange by-product, exclusively of capitalism
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This book by Spengler was banned by US occupation army in Japan soon after the end of WWll in the process of WGIP( war guilt information program). More than seven thousands of books(mainly on world's history) were censored and banned. The huge volume of the verification of this process were already published by prof.Kanji Nishio( German literature,specialist of Nietzsche)
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The best metaphor for his “morphological” approach was the four seasons – spring, summer, autumn, winter. The instinctive genius of a youthful, even barbaric culture in the springtime of its development would enable it to flourish. As it matured it would exult in all the potentialities of its creativity, reaching heights never before attempted. Great architecture, advanced mathematics, artistic innovations, technological ingenuity, statecraft, warfare, etc. would reach full flower well into its summer. Then, as the inner form world and imagination of such a culture began to lose its force it would enter an urban and worldly “late” (autumnal) period of rationalism and free itself from subservience to religion and dare to make that religion the object of epistemological criticism, thus opening the door to nihilism. Finally, it would go into its winter season or “Civilization” phase and begin its slow and inevitable decline. The West was already entering its Civilization phase by 1918 according to Spengler. It would not be a sudden collapse, but a gradual setting of the sun, a time of lengthening shadows, i.e., a “Twilight of the Gods.”
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With the world crumbling as it is today, beyond a shadow of a doubt, I decided to FINALLY REALLY DIVE IN to Oswald Spengler's works and ideas... And through my research I have found this channel, of course. It is blowing me away what he knew, what he saw, and how he could put it into words, albeit the words I've read are transcribed into English. It is most certainly going to continue to be a very cold winter. Somehow, though, the pessimism I carry seems a bit optimistic, if that makes any sense....
(And, yes, my last name is Spengler. It is my maiden name, as I've never been married.)
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@AL_THOMAS_777
1 year ago
"Through money, modern democracy destroys itself - after money has destroyed the spirit" (O. Spengler) . . . how true . . . how bloody true . . . In these days we live . . .
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