Can anyone explain why this book has become such an essential component of the "chud canon"? It doesn't seem particularly relevant to issues like race, sex, nationalism etc. in the slightest bit.
>>25468700Only highly intelligent men of Gothic soul can fully grasp and understand this timeless masterpiece. Not for everyone, safe to skip if you're just interested in the internet chud movement
>>25468700They read the title. Thats literally it.
>>25468700Also fuck abridged editions, if he wanted the book to be shorter, he would write it like this. Midwittery
>>25468700because ROME and WESTERN CIVILIZATION and le DECLINE
>>25468700it validates their thesis that culture is in terminal decline and adds a pseudo-mystical philosophical theory to back it up. instead of saying "the modern world is shit" they can reference spengler and say it is an inevitable terminal cycle specific to empires and that we are at a stage of aging, a frail state of bedridden senescence, and nothing can be done about it without a caesarian revolt to seize power (which justifies authoritarianism)
>>25468743He didn't masturbate over Rome, would have known if you actually read it
>>25468744Name three culturally significant products of 21st century. You can't. If you closed all of the art schools of today, nothing of value is lost
>>25468700Spengler shits on liberalism, and that's enough
It comprehensibly defines "the Occident" as a unique culture worth defending.It's essential chudcore
>>25468753Avengers EndgameThe SopranosMario Kart
>>25468744You’re right. It does validate the thesis. Well put anon.
the west has fallen, Faustian spirit bussin ong
Essential chudcore:https://xcancel.com/oldspeak_books/status/2088175046539739479
>>25468753Half Life 2The Possibility of an IslandBible Black
>>25468757That's more or less what mainstream media and politicians in Europe do, going on about European Values, which are all about feminism, democracy and tolerance towards imported brown people, and which have to be defended from evil right-wingers and sometimes left-wing extremists and some islamists that smuggled themselves in with the refugees that are fleeing from them.
>>25468744But Spengler doesn't believe Caesarism will save the West. He says the West is doomed to collapse regardless because it had reached the end of its preset timespan and that Caesarism is a vain attempt at preserving it.
>>25468753NarutoJujutsu KaisenOne PieceEasy
They use parts of the framework but miss the nuance.
>>25468753FutaDomWorld: Binding SimSmog - SupperDavid Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
