Predicts that the "West" will decline due to cultural reasons, rather than economic ones

>Predicts that the "West" will decline due to cultural reasons, rather than economic ones
>Claims idealism is deterministic throughout history
>Claims science and technology are worth more than art and philosophy, basically a STEMlord before STEMlords
>is a reactionary and a nationalist
>Claims everything's fucked and we're all doomed
Why is he shilled here? I dont get it. If you want cultural criticism, go for Adorno/Benjamin, and if you want an interpretation of history, go for Marx.

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>Predicts that the "West" will decline due to cultural reasons, rather than economic ones
It's more of a natural cycle, than "cultural" reasons.
>Claims science and technology are worth more than art and philosophy, basically a STEMlord before STEMlords
He says Western civ in the modern world has put more weight into tech than into art.
>is a reactionary and a nationalist
He says Caesarim will come back, not that he likes it to come back. And he wasn't a nationalist. His concept of "blood" is not people sharing genetic traits (he abhorred Nazism) but rather people with the same outlook.
>Claims everything's fucked and we're all doomed
H's right. Until the cycle begins again, we're fucked.

There's a difference between observing and describing reality and promoting and supporting what you see. You faggots need to learn this difference

>His concept of "blood" is not people sharing genetic traits (he abhorred Nazism) but rather people with the same outlook.
He did believe in a certain genetic base, though

Everybody does, you don't seek to convert oak trees to communism.

>and if you want an interpretation of history, go for Marx.

Marx's philosophy of history was wrong. The last century of history have given us no reason to believe Spengler was wrong.

source?

I think we've already been through a few cycles since his work. Thanks to globalization of resource distribution we don't feel them as heavy. Global collapse of civilization won't happen with the current outlook on technology and life, unless climate change comes into play.

>I think we've already been through a few cycles since his work
we haven't. we're still at the same cycle, just a different phase, perhaps.

I mean what about the Great Depression? America in the 60s was in a gold age after recovering from it. Is this not a cycle?

Even with Germany, the country has so much natural resources, and an important geopolitical location, that it was able to recover from two world wars, and technically the cold war, while being ran by completely incompetent people.

Times have changed, it's not like the Roman Empire where bunch of savager can just wipe your out from the face of the world.

>If you want cultural criticism, go for Adorno/Benjamin, and if you want an interpretation of history, go for Marx.
"yeah dog just go read authors that have completely different ideas from Spengler, the topic is the same lol"
dumb cunt.

his books lol

>America in the 60s was in a gold age after recovering from it.
lmao
>what about the Great Depression?
>is this not a cycle
yes, an economic cycle. spengler is talking about CIVILIZATIONAL cycles, retard. The Depression - World War - Golden Age & Moon Landing cycle are still a part of the cycle of western civilization.

>times have changed, it's not like the roman empire where a bunch of savager (sic) can just wipe your (sic) out from the face of the world
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