Written by Lord Wallace Swan
Oswald Spengler's ideas on Western decline
quickly broken down.
At first, man is barbarous
and without spirit.
He is a work of nature and at its mercy.
Later on, man gains the spirit and from
the spirit society organizes a foundation.
From this ground and position.
Man gains the wealth
to unshackle him from toil
and as awarded leisure in this leisure.
His mind is freed
from physical necessities.
So he gains the intellect,
unlocking the mind's gifts.
But this technology eventually
slays the scaffold of spirit,
bringing a loss of meaning
and the willingness
to make appropriate sacrifice.
With this loss comes impoverishment,
and so goes leisure.
Without leisure,
man's mind becomes shackled to toil.
And so the intellect is lost.
Man then descends to barbarism from which
his ancestors
first emerged from barbarism.
Civilization must try again.
From Spangler, we see his predictions
which uphold in our era.
Though we may be picky
about the exactness of them, it is clear
that he was correct and around 1867
Western civilization peaked.
Since then, save for the exploration
of space, progress and pause.
These past few decades,
all has been derivative or in decline.
Socialism is begged for empowering
the weak with every weakness funded.
The ever quicker collapse comes for each
man who says no more.
There are tenfold further
who deplore their station.
They have no spirit to push them.
Left with only the mind.
And how few have this?
All can be rationalized away.
The loose dirt is knocked from their boots
in the towering marble hallways
for all to see.
And as time wears on, there is soon
no one left to pick up the pieces.
And these marble archways
will become the shacks
where our descendants
will bear their fruits.
History lost or gone,
where we will become the myths and legends
if only we play our cards
carefully and correctly.
No civilization has ever recovered
from this fate in all of human history.
But perhaps we are different.
What if we could reinvigorate the spirit
before it is destroyed completely
by the intellect?
How would we define it?
What do we do?
I'll try to explore this a bit later,
but I want to hear your thoughts on this.
Perhaps it is
just Louis the 14th, the Sun, King said.
apres moi, le deluge.