“Q: Have you spoken or written on Spengler’s theories of civilization before?”–

–“Q: Have you spoken or written on Spengler’s theories of civilization before?”–

Yes but even taking to account criticisms of his overdeterminism and simplification, it’s well traveled ground and I pretty much agree with him – but then I comprehend that he wrote it at the end of WWI and was … more than depressed by what he saw. So I have to temper what he says. Also, the germans had surpassed the british in science and education and possibly in governance, but they did not really grasp the dynamism of the anglo and american entrepreneurialism and independence. So his pessimism has turned out correct, but only partly for the reasons he suggested, and more so to the jewish sedition and it’s use of women and immigration that took advantage of that english optimism and entrepreneurialism.
I don’t really have much to say other than he’s worth the read with what I’ve said above in mind. I would rather recommend Tragedy and Hope and The History Of Civilizations by Quigley who didn’t need anti-depressants to cover the same concepts and ideas. 😉

I should note that despite my anglo and american entrepreneurial aristocratic optimism, and my criticism of Schmidt’s observation but failure to understand the solution, that I’ve ‘gone over to the germanic’ and agree a bit more with hobbes and spengler than I did in my younger days. 😉