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>> No.23124415 [DELETED]  [View]
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Review the Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes) honestly and respectfully. Thank you.

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>>22999554
Decline of the west, the present age can not longer produce men like him, it's all downhill from here anon

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>>22633582
>The coming of Caesarism breaks the dictature of money and its political weapon, democracy. After a long triumph of world-city economy and its interests over political creative force, the political side of life manifests itself after all as the stronger of the two. The sword is victorious over the money, the master-will subdues again the plunderer-will. If we call these money-powers 'Capitalism,' then we may designate as Socialism the will to call into life a mighty politico-economic order that transcends all class interests, a system of lofty thoughtfulness and duty-sense that keeps the whole in fine condition for the decisive battle of its history, and this battle is also the battle of money and law. The private powers of the economy want free paths for their acquisition of great resources. No legislation must stand in their way. They want to make the laws themselves, in their interests, and to that end they make use of the tool they have made for themselves, democracy, the subsidized party. Law needs, in order to resist this onslaught, a high tradition and an ambition of strong families that finds its satisfaction not in the heaping-up of riches, but in the tasks of true rulership, above and beyond all money-advantage. A power can be overthrown only by another power, not by a principle, and no power that can confront money is left but this one. Money is overthrown and abolished only by blood. Life is alpha and omega, the cosmic stream in microcosmic form.

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>order The Gay Science
>dad gives me the look

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>>21364889
Stop watching porn.

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>>20807652
Also, read The Decline of the West.

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I have a complex about my writing since reading Oswald Spengler

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Why write?

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Did Heidegger make a single contribution to western philosophy that hadn’t already been prefigured by Spengler? Serious question.

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What if he was wrong about Russia? What if our civilization is not Western, but Christendom?

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It’s still not clear to me what we (I) are (am) supposed to do if he’s right.

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>>19524921
Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler

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>What’s wrong with raising Negros?

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Any books on how to live in the modern world in spite of all it's problems?

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What's your theory on Judge Holden of Blood Meridian book?

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>>18330161
Spengler spent a 1000 pages in great detail describing why western culture is essentially dead.

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Who are some conservative poetic type writers in the vein of Spengler?

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>Jesus Christ, Marie! They're not Hochkulturen! They're pseudomorphoses!

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>just become a STEM bugman and heckin love science bro
So this is the power of rightoid intellectuals....

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Is 4chan itself an example of Spengler's cycle of civilizations?

>2003-2008 (Spring)
>identity just beginning
>4chan's culture at its most lyrical
>creativity abounded
>fairly unwell known and niche website

>2009-2015 (Summer)
>begins with Project Chanology
>site becomes well known for its pranks and antics
>"the internet hate machine"
>userbase rapidly grows (a lot of which come from reddit)
>culture slowly goes from lyrical to more inellectual (gay) from new influence of redditors
>still hugely creative in terms of memes though begins to focus more on a few (pepe, wojak, etc)
>becomes less about doing it for the keks though
>political matters become center stage
>Anonymous, then Gamergate, then /pol/ Trump thing
>ends with the rise of Caeserism with Trump and Moot leaving

>2016-? (Fall/Winter?)
>lyrical age is over and Empire age begins
>meme war of 2016 was 4chan at its finest and most focused ever
>birth of a sort of organized religion (cult of kek/ meme magic)
>/pol/ replaces /b/ as the center of the site
>4chan successfully gets Trump elected (or at least believes it played some role)
>filled with vigor after this victory
>site is flooded with new users (as well as governmental agencies shilling on /pol/)
>He Will Not Divide Us ushers in another good spout of memes
>creative forces become weaker though
>site more and more relies heavily on a few memes mostly just pepes and wojaks
>/pol/ and alt-right stuff is hit heavily after charlottesville making the generation of memes and irl hard to come by
>bloodsports is able to fill this void and support the meme market for a while but that dies off from infighting after a year
>following this a great dry-spell begins to emerge
>smaller boards are able to continue mostly fine but /pol/ becomes too schizophrenic to browse as a result of the new boomer/reddit posters + shills + discord trannies
>the generation of new culture begins to wither away
>nothing new is being created just recreations of old memes
>almost every new meme now is some variation of wojak

And thats where I'll end it. Its harder to interpret the closer things become to the present. Tbh I can't tell if we're still in the fall stage or if we've crossed into winter. If I had to guess we're either at the end of fall or beginning or winter. There's no real landmarks like the other stages though.

So what do you guys think of my little theory?

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When does it get complicated? You guys told me that I should fear his book, that it's going to test my knowledge and filter me hard. I'm 100 pages in, I barely know my classics and I'm doing just fine following his line of thought. Is it because I am a STEMfag and he talks a lot about mathematics in the first chapters?

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>>17275364
This book is one of the most Faustian things ever written. Spengler was absolutely right. Only in the rotten winter of civilization could such a work be written and be taken seriously.

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Am I the only one worried about him being right? If the caesar is going to be someone like Elon Musk or Klaus Schwab then I’d rather collapse

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>>16996279
Oswald Spengler, pbuh

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