/lit/ - Literature

What is the modern version of this book that discusses the internet, social media etc. I read some recommendations from previous threads but they're all pretty bad.

Any books like Decline of the West but easier to read for those don't have a vast knowledge of history?

What's the modern Decline of the West? Something that brings up the internet and technology.

Has a book ever ruined your life, /lit/?

Is there a book like Decline of the West but more modern and relevant to our times? I haven't read but 200 years of Caesar or whatever he predicted doesn't seem to be coming true.

Last time I'm going to post this because I didn't get really any recommendations last time I posted. Can I get a book to read about the decline of the west that doesn't involve schizo magic or extreme anti-Semitism. The last threads just devolved in retarded debate when all I want is book recommendations.

What version of Decline of the West should I get? Looking for the easiest version to read.

This and Man and Technics are the two best works on it. Spengler also shows that seemingly healthy or growing cultures/nations like China are just as fucked as the rest of us.

>expected whiny pessimistic doomerism and proto-fascism
>Actually got a very broad and thorough philosophy of history
Before reading i still somewhat believed in end-of-history philosophies (though i couldn't formulate what the end would really be like), but Decline seriously made me doubt that history could ever end.

All you asked about, with deep reflections, deductions, inductions and interpretation of huge quantities of sources and data. If you read it you will have increased your cultural level far beyond what you are now

>>18026821
Not as a mean, but more as a manifestation of the second religiosity, in which people fall back on hollowed out religions.

I see him memed here pretty regularly. The work looks interesting; is it worth getting a copy and reading my way through it? Or am I better served just by reading a summary of it online?

>>17876916
Depends on what philosophy of history you ascribe to.

Spengler writes about how religion in the west will become more syncretic and mechanized.
Do any of you have any ideas what this will look like, or if Spengler talks more about this elsewhere?
>inb4 no religion in the future

>Dude Eurocentrism lmao
fuck off

>>16499645
The OG one

>>16436861

Would it be better to start with volume 2 of this?

Is there an analytical version of Decline of the West?

After reading pic related, I am fascinated with authors that see civilizations/countries/movements/religions as organisms.
Pls post more authors or books like this.

The creative energy of the world has been exhausted. The only thing that remains is commercialized "art" and rehashes of previous, superior works.

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>>15923515
Let's talk about the Second Religiousness and the return of religion in a highly degenerate form and how Spengler was completely right about everything