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People keep saying that Decline was very prescient, but i dont see it. Can anyone elaborate?

>> No.13759768

It says the same old man shit that every other book ever says. Stuff's going to shit. Somebody else is gonna take over and clean this whole mess. Fuck the world right now. Fuck art, fuck culture, fuck poor people.
You can find this same sort of feeling in the Babylonian captivity books in the Old Testament or in the works of people who lived in the late Roman Empire.
If anybody dares to claim this man had any prescience or foresight on anything, they're just pulling stuff out of their ass.

>> No.13759845

>>13759768
>Fuck the world right now. Fuck art, fuck culture, fuck poor people.
Thats not what Spengler says though

>> No.13759953

>>13759768
Fuck those old men for accurately observing that their state is in decline

>> No.13759970

>>13759768
The fact that this was repeated many times in many cultures only reinforces its validity. Of course he's not the originator if the idea, he's just another one in a long line of it's refiners.

>> No.13760002

The real redpill is that civilizations today will be transformed by technology unlike all past ones. This will make all predicions about the future meaningless as technological advancement on the scale it is today is unprecedented.
Uncle Ted was right about techonology and its the primary driving force behind decline, all other trends are secondary to it and not nearly as important in comparison.

>> No.13760521

>>13760002
Spengler does talk about this, but not in Decline

>> No.13760909

>>13760002
>implying humanity can make the leap to a space-faring species
>implying we won't be swarmed by Africans and trapped on Earth forever

>> No.13760925

>>13759768
t. never read a page of spengler

>> No.13760930

>>13759768
I AM BECOME GENDO, DELAYER OF THE HOLOCAUST

>> No.13760936

Hey, man. I don't know who's spamming these threads, but I ended up getting the book from my library. It was going to be my next read, but if I keep seeing multiple threads with this fuck's face I'm not going to read it; then all your spamming would be for naught, for you will have evangelized a man who's work you admire to the point of revulsion.

>> No.13761459

>>13760002
Gas the clanks
Butlerian Jihad now

>> No.13762129
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>>13760002
what if we apply patchwork? could moldbug be the answer to the sprenglerian question?

>> No.13762173

>>13760002
Pure hubris. Technology and progress hasn't stopped us from falling into same pitfalls as civilizations before us. Although tech does leave mark of our civilization in history.

>> No.13762204

>>13760925
I actually read 3 randomly chosen pages.