/lit/ - Literature

>In the modern theory of the will one find the entire formal language of electrynamics
>Only dreamers believe in an escape. Optimism is cowardice.
>rather a short life full of deeds and glory rather than a long one without content.
>act as though your maxime ought to become trhough your will general law
>not the created "effects", but the creating "takes on"
>The word capital denotes the centre of this thinking, not the notion of the values, but that which keeps such in motion
>the machine is of the fevil
>the limit of art, as of the spirit, is the mortal enemy of the will to power.

To all the SEETHERS:
>plantlike
>fellah type
>waking-being(i assume this is the translation for "wachsein")
are terminology idiosyncratically used by Spengler that you might just gloss over and not pay specific attention to.
If that is the case you can only attribute your seething to your own ignorance. If you get "angry" at what Spengler is saying here, you do not understand why he is saying this and for what context.

>>17479440
>>17479686
>>17479489
>>17479521
>>17479616
NONE of you ever read the book and are a perfect proof of what Spengler is writing about here.
How arrogant And retarded do you have to be to feel like you are worthy of giving your two cents opinion on a complex philosophical system that you have never actually engaged in properly?
It is instantly noticeable that from your posts that you have no idea what you are talking about.
Stop derailing every Spengler thread for some small dick reasons.

>>17479420
The most interesting aspect of all this to me is the historical examples he employs for this where he points to many instances where laws were enacted in the rgeatest empire either encouraging childrearing or more common punishing childless people and the common trend of childlessness in Both women and men being a ubiquitous fact in these civlizations. It really isnt even necessary to look at the 1920s and 30s in England and Germany to see this unconscious anti-natalism being the natural phenomenon for the european faustian. His extrapolation on the city caste vs the bucolic is also fantastic when one takes into regard again the birth decline:
>Latifundia perdidere Italiam, jam, vero et provincias
To not just understand but see this mentality (as he stated) as being wrong, and now understood with italiam being the city and provincias the breadbasket regions, is fantastic and an essential aspect imo to forming the holsitic picture of the current (and typical) decline.

>the pace and the energy
>the perfect angry reading
what did he mean by this