/lit/ - Literature

>>17859735
It was not for nothing that Schopenhauer, like Rousseau before him, studied the English empiricists. From them he learned to misread Kant in the spirit of megalopolitan utilitarianism. The intellect as instrument of the will-to-life, as weapon in the struggle for existence, the ideas brought to grotesque expression by Shaw in "Man and Superman" - it was because this was his view of the world that Schopenhauer became the fashionable philosopher when Darwin's main work was published in 1859. In contrast to Schelling, Hegel and Fichte, he was a philosopher, and the only philosopher, whose metaphysical propositions could be absorbed with ease by intellectual mediocrity. The clarity of which he was so proud threatened at every moment to reveal itself as triviality. While retaining enough of formula to produce an atmosphere of profundity and exclusiveness, he presented the megalopolitan view of the world complete and assimilable. His system is anticipated materialism, and the speech of Kant and the concepts of the Indians are simply clothing.

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>>16653198
It's SPENGLER
S P E N G L E R

>>15601614
>100 years ago told everyone this would happen
>nobody listened

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>>13928211
this is my thread from a while ago cheeky cunt

>technology and science focus
>collectivism is a higher purpose
>the advancement of "all" humanity
>science and medicine and tech = happiness
>solutions to problems "all" humans face
>imagine if
>i know this is a radical attack on our current principles [but]
>scientism and technicism is not slavery
>let's work towards a collectivist utopia where nobody is allowed to think or act for themselves
>technology = virtue = happiness

>RationalWiki

>>13476451
>r/LateStageCapitalism

>>13416286
>reddit

>>13321897
Stop being Eurocentric.

>>13264954
The first step to understanding it is to stop thinking in terms of cause and effect. The second step is understanding that the will-to-freedom of Western civilization has come to a head in modern individualism and democracy. The will-to-duration, that is the intense strive for the future and resultant worship of the female (virgin Mary) as a symbol of the future, is also manifest in feminism and also homosexuality/transexuality where men literally want to become women, which was itself destiny as our civilization stopped seeing reproduction as a metaphysical necessity. This is also why pedophilia will never be accepted in our culture while homosexuality is, even though birth rates are declining the children are still a symbol of the future.

>>13067724
The basic premise of geographical differences and not cultural outlook as the reason Europeans conquered the world is wrong from the very beginning. Western Culture sees itself striving towards infinity and the Will to Power drove it to impose its Will on all four corners of the Earth, something no other Culture that came before it was interested in. Western Civilization is just another epoch in Cultural history, like Bede's sparrow in the banquet hall. Europeans didn't conquer the world and create modern technology because Europeans are exceptional or "geographically advantageous" to the Chinese or Indians, it was because Charles Martel won the Battle of Tours and Western Culture was allowed to realize its lofty spiritual ambitions unmolested.

>>12920766
Communism is the capitalism of the lower classes.

OP are you releasing your manifesto because you're about to do a mass shooting?

Was he right?

STOP BEING