Thus, the insights of one era are not unshakable or valid in another time or Culture—"there are no eternal truths," and each individual has a duty to look beyond one's own Culture to see what individuals of other Cultures have with equal certainty created for themselves. He attacks him for "rejecting causality and laws, recognizing them as the only historical phenomena of given epochs and denying them any competence for scientific and philosophical methodology" and "substituting causality for analogy", making the "(often shallow) similarities his canon of investigation".

Spengler differed from others in not seeing the final civilization stage as necessarily "better" than the earlier stages; rather, the military expansion and self-assured confidence that accompanied the beginning of such a phase was a sign that the civilization had arrogantly decided it had already understood the world and would stop creating bold new ideas, which would eventually lead to a decline.modern art- long separated from the idealism of Manet, Degas, Cezanne and Rodin- had become the purveyor of a destructive, degenerate, ugly, pornographic, Marxist, anti-American ideology. Whittaker Chambers often refers to "Crisis", a concept influenced by Spengler, in Witness (more than 50 pages, including a dozen times on the first page mentioned), [39] in Cold Friday (1964, more than 30 pages), [40] and in other pre- Hiss Case writings. Japan was the first modern nation to legalize abortion (1948), and her baby boom ended soon afterward. In his view, "Out of the people-shapes of the Carolingian Empire—the Saxons, Swabians, Franks, Visigoths, Lombards—arise suddenly the Germans, the French, the Spaniards, the Italians. What Marcuse offered was intellectual cover for cowardice, a moral argument for malingering, a way to dodge the draft while feeling superior to those who went.

The de-Christianization of America is a great gamble, a roll of the dice, with our civilization as the stakes. Spengler believed that Enlightenment rationalism undermines and destroys itself, and described a process that passes from unlimited optimism to unqualified skepticism. The book received unfavorable reviews from most scholars even before the release of the second volume. Spengler disliked the contemporary trend of using a biological definition for race, saying, "Of course, it is quite often justifiable to align peoples with races, but 'race' in this connexion must not be interpreted in the present-day Darwinian sense of the word.

Patrick Sookhdeo has doctorates from London University's School of Oriental and African Studies, Western Seminary and Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary. I tumbled towards the right, moving away from almost literally every single person I grew up, and it wasn't really fun. Buchanan derives much of the information in the Death of the West from the New Century Foundation, which is headed by Jared Taylor, a white supremacist who embraces the "clear conception of the United States as a nation ruled by and for whites.

In other words, art is but another front of the cultural revolution's relentless war on Christianity.Spengler said that the ideologies espoused by candidates, whether Socialism or Liberalism, are set in motion by, and ultimately serve, only money. Spengler recognized at least eight high cultures: Babylonian, Egyptian, Chinese, Indian, Mesoamerican ( Mayan/ Aztec), Classical ( Greek/ Roman, "Apollonian"), the non-Babylonian Middle East ("Magian"), and Western or European ("Faustian"). As a member of the Frankfurt School of Marxist critical theory, Adorno said he wanted to "turn (Spengler's) reactionary ideas toward progressive ends. Francis Parker Yockey wrote Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics, published under the pen name Ulick Varange in 1948.