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| Spengler, like Tocqueville, is a rare ocurrence in the history of mankind. They were able to rise above the mundane and look at the human condition with sharp and prescient eyes. Today as we wallow in our success, having practically subdued the rest of the animal world and sent it towards extinction, globalized business as well as disease and vices, rendered earth as a growing concrete jungle, we cannot escape the decline of our civilization. Mind you, some folks equate technology with civilization, but look around, we have space ships flying towards Mars and we cannot produce decent music, our films are little more than displays of pirotechnics and gore, our literature has been reduced to fast-paced clips to be devoured in a quick subway ride, our architechture only aspires to reach ever more dizzying heights. Where are our Beethoven's, Fellini's, Taj-Mahals, our Angkor Wats? Our technical supremacy has only brought more alienation and spiritual emptiness, reflected in ever more abstract and incomprehensible art. How long can we sustain technical advance with cultural decay? Read Spengler and you will understand why even the most upright citizens of the Roman Empire could not reverse its inexorable decline........... |
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