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17329364 No.17329364 [Reply] [Original]

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?

>> No.17329370

>>17329364
No, it's because he's a good writer.

>> No.17329384

>>17329364
Spengler is not hard, and >>17329370 is right, he is also very clear.
People who says he is hard are just illiterate kids and /pol/ mentally retarded people.

>> No.17329419

>>17329364
MARIE!

>> No.17329421

>>17329364
SEX GIFS

>> No.17329689

He's not that difficult unless you want to visualize everything he's talking about like he was a vlogger or something

>> No.17329699

>>17329364
It's because most of /lit/ has never even opened his books

>> No.17329703

>>17329364
>I barely know my classics
Which ones?

>> No.17329719
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17329719

applying some of his notions to other thinkers could take time... here's Spengler blended with a bit of Huxley and McLuhan.

Sometimes Spengler says something wonderfully abstract that can be applied immediately, like
>have you noticed that late civilizations apply this form of chessboard architecture?
at other times he'll say something like
>aren't the Aztecs quite obviously Apollonian, and the Maya quite obviously Faustian?
and that is where people get lost, because you require historical and modern references.

>> No.17329735

>>17329719
*
>late civilizations apply chessboard grid layouts

>> No.17329796

>>17329719
I read The Gutenberg Galaxy recently, is Spengler's concept of Faustian culture equivalent to McLuhan's linear-visual culture?

>> No.17329832
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17329832

>>17329796
It appears that the linear-visual is Faustian.. McLuhan certainly did associate the Mediaeval era with the Orient, and the right-brained abstractionist tendency of that hemisphere. It's not the Apollonian because that has a sense of stasis which is removed from linearity

>> No.17329859

>>17329719
Calvinism might belong in Faustianism

>> No.17329918
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17329918

>>17329719
What's that full Borges quote?
>Novels are fables of individuals...

>> No.17329990

>>17329832
>>17329719
>>17329918
Thanks for these, the Decline of the West is such a drag without a more visual representation.

>> No.17330013

>>17329719
lmao, thats pretty easy for people who actually read. This confirms that illiterate pol mongrels cant read.

>> No.17330107

>>17330013
Spengler's not even much of a political thinker, he was more of an art critic from Munich, where the best academies were located.