You’ve been hitting nothing but home runs lately, but this was like a home run hitting a home run. Truly fantastic!
One question that has arisen for me when I read Spengler is: what is a reader of Spengler, especially those of us who have been greatly influenced by an organismal understanding of human history, supposed to do with this knowledge? Readers may come away from reading Spengler with the same sense of powerlessness (though derived from a different source) as they do when they consider the implications of the current progressive theory of historical development, and I think the last thing we need right now is more despair. Moldbug/Yarvin gives us some outs but is Moldbugism a necessary salve to Spenglerian fatalism? How do you understand it?
You’ve been hitting nothing but home runs lately, but this was like a home run hitting a home run. Truly fantastic!
One question that has arisen for me when I read Spengler is: what is a reader of Spengler, especially those of us who have been greatly influenced by an organismal understanding of human history, supposed to do with this knowledge? Readers may come away from reading Spengler with the same sense of powerlessness (though derived from a different source) as they do when they consider the implications of the current progressive theory of historical development, and I think the last thing we need right now is more despair. Moldbug/Yarvin gives us some outs but is Moldbugism a necessary salve to Spenglerian fatalism? How do you understand it?
Any idea what the “book written in Germany in the 30s” Darryl was talking about was?
I tried to infer but came up short, would love to know this.
This is a fantastic episode