A Brief Guide To Oswald Spengler's (Other) Civilizations 

Going to open up my porter beer, chill out and listen to the poet of the norf talk about Spengler's ideas. A great evening, indeed. Cheers!

Spengler had an enormous influence on me back in 2016, he essentially led me out of relativism into believing in hard absolute truth (despite his at times relativistic take on the deep differences in Cultures). But you get a sense that history has immutable rules and patterns and they cannot be reversed or fought against, and there is a hard absolute truth to that. His work really kick started a process for me that ultimately ended in my accepting of Orthodox Christianity. Very grateful for Spengler and I feel like he's immensely unknown and underappreciated and often misunderstood by those who even know who he is. Very happy to see content like this!

Morgoth you should talk about Jonathan Bowden, I've been binge watching his speeches and they're all so good.

TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 intro 3:00 Egypt 14:20 China 23:38 India 28:30 Magian (Islamic/middle east) 34:49 Classical (Greece and Rome) 41:07 Russia 41:57 Recap 43:07 End of recap

Hi Morgoth, did you ever talk about how you came to be interested in things far from the common man? What got you into thinking so much and how could you persist doing such menial jobs in comparison? Yes, I'm a nosy-bonk

Though I haven't read all of his work, I'm very much in agreement with Spengler about India. Our interest with our own history seems only to be a modern byproduct of our colonization by Faustian civilization. A lot of our existing monuments were built by the Magians too!

It makes sense that the Indians were not concerned with dates events and figures. For a people who believe in cycles and rebirth, specific dates and individuals are not relevant. In my opinion, attaining nirvana/moksha probably takes 100s if not 1000s of years. Ancient Indians put emphasis on the soul rather than the material (body), I dont know if they consider the soul eternal but it does make sense when you take the perspective of a soul wandering samsara, that time is irrelevant to the soul.

I was playing assassins creed valhalla and its interesting how the progressive views ancient history. They create a lot of modern morally reprehensible scenarios in a way to prove that we in the modern age are better and more just and they also apply a lot of modern ideas of morality onto the main characters thats unrealistic. But they always nail the setting and the local down to a T it goes to show they have no idea what the people of these ancient societies were like but they fully understand their material capabilities. This is interesting to me they can fully understand the technological capability and accurately depict the buildings and other details but cant properly portray the spirit of man in the ancient civilizations. Also they always have gnostic cultish enemies who believe in the nephelim and that god is a liar and that man is his own creator and god. Its projection of the highest levels. I think the more we can understand the spirit of these men and civilizations the better we can see our own flaws. Look at Briton rome after the fall they continued to practice Roman elections and art and culture because they werent cultured enough to make new art amd that is the prime issue of modern society we pull from the past out of a lacking of the present. Did ancient civilizations at their peak steal other society's art and customs no it only happened during collapse and of course when sacked by barbarians or outward peoples Just thinking out loud sorry lol

Looking forward to this.

I watched this when you released it on Substack, but on my second viewing I just want to say what a fantastic job you’ve done with this video. I’ve been fascinated with Spengler’s work for the past five years or so and I find his philosophy of history to be a work of true genius. On the idea of Faustian man’s deepest world feeling of wanting to vanish into Infinity, I look at our situation today and see the internet as an invention that really embodies this idea. If we look at how companies like Facebook are creating virtual realities in which we can voluntarily “escape,” I see this anyway as a reflection of that inborn feeling of wanting to vanish into the Infinite forever. Like the original Faustian legend by Goethe, the doctor sells his soul to achieve infinite knowledge and worldly pleasure. This bargain, like all bargains with the Devil, will end with tears and lamentations.

Thanks Morgoth. Excellent recap, and timely too.

What a fascinating and insightful listen, thanks Morgoth.

Looking forward to it!

This was a lot to try to take in! However, the intellectual discourse around the turn of the 20th century has been a casual curiosity of mine for years, so perhaps I will finally add this work to the queue. Thanks for the introduction.

Interesting that the Egyptian symbol is a long march through a corridor, and they were centred on a long straight river, whilst the Chinese had a meandering culture, and they were centred on a big meandering river (the Yellow River)

Glad I found your content, really good stuff

Missed live what a shame because Morgoth's streams feels like an event.

The Egyptian "resolute march down the path once entered" sounds a lot like traditional European ideas of fate and wyrd. Against all odds this seems to be coming back as progressivism negotiates its decline - most people believe that history bends toward something, but clearly it ain't progress. Egyptians had other uncanny resemblances to pre-Faustian NW Euro theology like the body-soul unity, ancestor worship, state cult, and even the weighing of the heart, especially being fed to the beast. We have a lot to learn from these people - I can see why Spengler was fascinated by them.

Give morgoth a listen. The value of his thoughts is directly proportional to the thickness of his scottish brogue.

Looking forward to this. Please like and share.

A great dialog on a deep topic that needs a lot more consideration in our present era

As a German, it seems strangely plausible to me to hear an Englishman talk about Spengler´s philosophy, someone of the other branch of the particularly Faustian nations who made the modern civilization in the real world in the shape of the empire.

Wonderful!

Glad you are making bare the distortion that some people have over the Russian identity through Spengler. It's hard sometimes to break through the black and white thoughts about how cultures exist en percieve their identity as a people. Much is to be said about how race became a disection past identity and how the formulation of people by color is a burden instead of a tool for disecting the identity of a people.

I really enjoyed your Spengler video on the English and Germans. Also, commenting for the algorithm.

Fantastic video. Thank you so much!

Loved the substack chat with Woes mate, more of the same please.

Loved it.

That was brilliant.

great stuff

That was awesome.

Absolutely fascinating video, Morgoth! Really appreciate it and you and your work.

Good stuff

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Another great video Morgoth, always love your explanations of Spengler. Have you ever read The Hour of Decision? I'm actually planning on recording it in audiobook form over the next couple of weeks, I think it might contain some interesting lessons for the current day and age

Awesomeness squared.

The Russian part has left my jaw open. Oh my god he was spot on!

I think we all agree that Spengler nailed his characterization of the Faustian West, but I have to say also that I always found his comments on the Magian East to be veeery accurate

Morgoth, have you checked out the works of Amaury de Riencourt? He was a French Spenglerian who wrote in the post-war period and expanded upon these other civilizations in a way that’s faithful to Spengler’s analysis. Despite working entirely within his framework, Riencourt doesn’t mention Spengler, I think so that his interpretations weren’t ignored due to post war anti German bias. The influence is undeniable, however. I especially recommend the Soul of China as well as the Soul of India, each an unfolding of spenglerian history for those civilizations. His work is especially important, I believe, because he’s the only author I know of that actually pursues Spengler’s vision of a new school of historical morphology, he never wanted his work to be a one-and-done.

Amazing thoughts and overview on the Russians.

Morgoth, great video. Thanks to you and others in our circles I am reading Decline of the West currently. According to Spengler can a people for example the Chinese develop a second life feeling or civilization or is it more a case of one and done?

Great material and great accent, since my family are from the north east.

It's funny to treat the idea of Faustian culture as something different than our current incarnation when we are, to an extreme degree, the logical conclusion of it. Faustian culture pushes boundaries and explores new frontiers. However, it mapped and conquered the world, and most meaningful cultural boundaries were pushed to their breaking point. Now, many people think we just continue this infinitely into space, but a culture's desires are ultimately limited by physically real pressures. Space exploration, in any significant manned capacity, is impossible. It requires extreme material, monetary, and time investments for little to no return. Going to another star system is out of the picture due to the immense energies required - there is no way to gather, contain, or direct such energy. So what does Faustian man do once he has conquered all without? He turns within. The same impulse that drove explorers to find new lands is now driving academics to find new genders. With no remaining physical limits to overcome, cultural and biological frontiers are the only ones that offer the Faustian impulse an outlet. Hence the focus on inclusion (expansion of a kind) as well as genetic and cybernetic engineering of the human body (to remove "biological chains"). This is the ultimate fate of civilizations. The impulse that served them well and made them successful eventually does them in, its worst aspects devouring all that is good as it metaphysically exhausts itself. Accepting this is a crucial part in figuring out what comes next - and it won't be a glorious rebirth of Faustian man since he never died.

I wonder if you'd consider doing an analysis of the movie Snowpiercer. To me it seems like an expression of late stage Faustian culture and techno-neofuedalism, where nature has finally imposed limitations on Faustian man through climate disaster. The snowpiercer though continues on in perpetuity, inside every resource is measured, monitored and maintained and every variable accounted for.

Surprised to learn that Spengler had so little or more/less fused (lumping Hinduism & Buddhism together) view on Indian Civilization. Also, not quite understanding his take on there (Indian Civilization) not being so concerned about keeping records for events and figures. Hindu's are particular about maintaining their patrilineal genealogy records, which atleast comprises of 7 Generation, and are used in times of weddings. Along with the patrilineal record, one must also know their Gotra, which is believed to have been based on the SaptaRishis (7 Main Sages) and are not allowed to intermarry within the same Gotra.

Interesting that for the Egyptians, in the Spenglerian view, Space and Time seem to be the same...

Great presentation. I found myself asking…. What about African civilizations…. Other than Egyptian? Maybe another video for the future. Thanks for the analysis.

Saw this article and thought of you Mr Morg: 'For Black Women, Roller Skating Is The Ultimate Form Of Self-Expression' In celebration of Juneteenth, Clorox hosted a Glow & Roll roller rink at Refinery29 Unbothered's The Glow Up event in Atlanta, resulting in a truly spectacular night rooted in Black joy.

Well this is fascinating....Jung observed a similar thing although different to Spengler....the I Ching is an amazing book....it’s like universal binary code and operates on a completely different level to Western thought and Theology....the thinking is completely different to the logical and rational framework of the West....its intuitive and predicated on the notion of synchronicity (meaningful coincidence).....now if we look at the work of McGilchrist (who’s an absolute genius and polymath) he gives us quite a radical explanation between the two hemispheres of the brain .....one is rational and the other creative and intuitive....with conditioning the left is the more dominant and mechanistic (as has happened throughout the enlightenment) with the right being more subservient .....henceforth the different nodes and indeed modes of thinking in the west....

While it was dismissed at the time, read Immanuel Velikovsky's "Earth in Upheaval." In line with the Yuga cyclical system of time, the world (and therefore any civilisations) is periodically practically wiped clean with cataclysms of inconceivable scale and ferocity (i.e. asteroid strikes, crustal displacements and the associated cataclysmic effects, and the like). Nearly every culture on Earth has an ancient "flood myth." Europe and North America have both been nearly fully inundated with the ocean at times, with whales and exotic flora and fauna from Africa and elsewhere ending up being washed into the northern continents in gargantuan quantities. Geologically, the Himalayas, as just one example, may be as young as only a few _tens of thousands_ of years old, not millions. (As an aside, the Giza pyramids, the Sphinx, etc. were built in a prior epoch, not by the Egyptians - to the Egyptians, "Zep Tepi" or, the time of the "Gods"). Much of what is covered in this book is now being shown to be basically correct since it was written in the 50s (see for instance the "Younger Dryas" event). Moreover, Velikovsky also wrote "Worlds in Collision" wherein he postulates that Earth may have had close encounters with Venus and/or Mars (hence the various Greek myths concerning these two bodies, Jupiter etc.), as well as changing our orbit from 360 days to 365 days - again, as recently as within recorded history. All far too complicated to properly describe here, but fascinating books both of them.

Great video. The Russian bit surprised me the most.

There is this polish-german historian Engels. He made a video in which he told the symbols of the other cultures. As far as I remember, Persia had dualism, China harmony. I forgot what India and the South Americans had.

Wooo!

I'd like to see a take on some other nascent civilizations, or cultures. The meso-american zone I think would best be described by a bleeding heart stabbed through by a guilded cross. Gruesomeness intended. Before it was a cross, it was an obsidian blade. A spirit that can't help but consume itself.

Visiting Egypt is an amazing experience. I think it helps you feel how an entire civilisation can just vanish. The Egyptian people are just wandering around the ruins of this once great civilisation, something they are utterly incapable of building now.

Is it worth getting the full version of Decline of the west over the abridged version? It costs a lot of money to get the unabridged version. Or can you recommend a decent version of both books that wont break the bank?

That's Scott Mannion on youtube if you want to check him out, I think you will enjoy him.

We used to give cards with a key on them to people on their 21st. I wonder if we still do. People thought it was literally a key to the house. An old custom from ancient Egypt who knew that the soul _should_ be fully assimilated with the physical body at around that age. Just as it gradually releases its hold on the body as we become very aged.

I'm simple I guess, but I immediately thought of Admiral Thrawn from Star Wars when Spengler's comments with regard to understanding a civilization through art was discussed. I wonder how enjoyable it would be to place the ideas and personalities of Ibsen, Spengler and such in the mouths of star wars people. It might be more fun to have Shatner Kirk reacting to them, rather than star wars people. "Dammit commodore, damn civilization cycles, these are Klingons we're talking about! KLINGONS MAN, KLINGONS!"

Have anyone ever watched Princess Mononoke as a civilizational parable? The different animal clans actually represent the different civilizations/races.

You missed the Mayan culture and the short and tragic history of the Aztecs.

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If winter comes can spring be far behind?

This video is very informative and thoughtful. So much so it makes me wonder in the context of modernity if this is the first time humanity has united on the earth. Really makes one think about the nature of culture and the deep strangeness of a time where the geopolitical boundaries that creates these radically different minds and cultures are muddled and distorted in a Babylonian tower of trade and communication and technology.

...it's "The Decline of the West"...not the Decline and Fall of the West"...and I've read this two volume set...he has a good grasp of what may have happened and...why...

Unlike everything else in ancient Egypt, the great pyramid has no writing inside except a single misspelled phrase over the supposed tomb, which raises questions about whether it is really Egyptian.

What is the name f the painting representing the steppes ? 45:30 ?

It seems that some of todays' Brits since Brexit are more often ideologically confused than not: That any of them would appreciate a thinking that took part in the birth of fashism which they fought in WW2 is especially hard to get for a German after all...

Thanks for doing this, Morgoth. Did you ever read "The Archdruid Report" blog by J M Greer? He was a huge fan of Spengler -- it almost seemed Greer gave Prophet status to Spengler, and often he wrote essays saying how this cultural event or that historical development was already predicted by Spengler -- and then he'd say how, based on Spengler saying such-and-such in this work or that. Greer now has some other outlet that's behind a paywall (like his contemporary JH Kunstler) and I don't know if The Archdruid Report is still open. Might need the wayback machine. I like to think of Spengler's take as an interesting one, and certainly a self-assured one presented by a man who'd thought deeply. But I also like to think, "is that what I'd conclude from the same points of information?" If his observations can be seen as prophetic -- is that because only he could see them, or only because he bothered to write them down. Think of the things credited to American "industrialists" or "inventors" that actually were first observed and studied by Tesla. Thinkers like Spengler are best used as reality-checks on what the reader has come to "know" (really truly -- assume!) about events learned in one's basic elementary & secondary education. And also whatever one might've learned in college or grad school. But to really impove your own skills, to help you learn to be more like Spengler, you have to ask that question -- "is that also what I see, from the same points of information? Or do I see perhaps a few different causes, or solutions?" Great seed for fruitful thought and further discussion.

you should start a playlist for all your Spengler videos

It would be interesting to know how Spengler views Orthodox Christianity and Byzantium. Are they a part of this Magian civilizations? Or are they a part of this Russian civilization? And by Russian does he mean Slavic? Or just Orthodox Slavic? Or narrowly just that Eurasian landmass? I'd also like to know where he places Persia and Iran in all this

Is this not on any alternative platform? I can't see it uploaded to the chute

What’s the best english translation of “Decline of The West”?

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I think Google shadow banned this episode. I’m subscribed to your material but this never showed up in my notifications.

I gotta know what this intro music is man, shazam gives me nothin!

From my own thinking I would agree with most of Spengler's points here, although clearly the whole civilisations as hermetically-sealed is a fiction for theoretical simplicity. On the classical civilisation, I also note that the Romans and Greeks, although less ahistorical than India, merged their history with that of the gods, unlike the Egyptians who like the Chinese had an obsession with accurate chronologies and king-lists which were almost secular. Rome had much of their pre-Brennus history invented by patriotic writers like Livy or Virgil, and did not seem to realise the falsehoods and unreality (or didn't care). Also, it might be noted that Christianity under the Roman Empire, in its early forms (including 'heretical' such as Gnosticism) feels very different than the Christianity of the Germanic-'Faustian' civilisation which I would suggest begins with the Merovingians. Roman Christianity has a more 'Magian' feel to use Spengler's terminology, for reasons I can't really express in writing. I suggest the fact that early Christians met in catacombs and built basilicas (which look like Mosques) rather than Gothic cathedrals with large spires is notable. Also, does Spengler explain _how_ different civilizational-cultural forms develop? Would it not be possible for a world-civilisation to develop over the next few centuries which merges the worldviews of the existing ones of today into something completely new?

I think at the end of his life Marx became very interested in the Russian peasantry and began to see potential there for the realization of communism -- not only in a proletarian revolution against the capitalist bourgeoisie.

Once 'Morgoth's Review' moves beyond _the single source_ of Oswald Spengler - whose approach is arguably based on Leopold Ranke's first outlines of a 'global history' from the perspective of 'German Idealism' (that is striving to synthesize between _'an unreflected British empiricism'_ and _'a French doctrinaire rationalism'_ ) - and spends time with _completely foreign sources and concepts_ , e.g. Russian and Chinese literature and artwork, a look back - at the 'New Atlantis' of Francis Bacon, based on the Reformation and English Revolutions - will be more revealing (to take *Goethean 'rational empiricism'* as a guide star will help to look at matters, less biased). Only the 'enlightened' West and those who had been 'Westernized', believe in _an exclusively secular progress by technological innovation and social engineering_ - that in fact, completely _alienates_ man from himself. Therefore, every other civilization, faithfully preserving the tradition of _the enlightenment of the soul as preparation for another life_ - in one form or another - regards the West as an existential threat, not just to themselves and their loved ones, _but mankind_ . For Indian civilization, religious practice prevents an untimely cataclysm on a cosmic scale, the West, deconstructing it's own Christian eschatological ethos, will face an emmanation of 'Shiva' - the destroyer - before realizing their state of indoctrination (also within _modernist_ nationalist and dissident circles, parroting a CFR/CIA/Radio Free Europe construct of English or American identity). Medians were nomads when confronting the first historical empire of Assur, sedentary Russians are the heirs to the nomadic - and meritocratic - Mongols who had fluctuated between their original Tengrism of the steppes, Nestorian Christianity and Shia Islam (Ilkhanate of Persia) and Tibetan Buddhism (Yuan dynasty of China) - when they controlled the Silk Road like the Kushans and the 'Huns', before them - the sole reason why the West was scrambling to find another traderoute to India after the fall of Constantinople, rediscovering the Americas in the process. If one studies the history of China, one can notice how it's rural people outlived several foreign dynasties, either assimilating them or destroying them in popular revolts as in 1911 against the originally nomadic Manchu who ceeded into collaboration with a coalition force of Western colonialism, all of them rejected as well on *May Fourth 1919* , years before 'Kung-Fu master Marx' was tought to the Triads among miners at the Anyuan strike of 1922 - as the Russian Revolution of 1917 was to China what the American and French Revolutions of 1776 and 1789 are to Europe. When the British Empire subjugated the modernizing Germans (superior shipbuilding, chemical industry) in two world wars, Russia and China had the opportunity to modernize and grow - and that is the fate of the ideological West: that it can't clamp down upon the entire globe _at once_ as opposition will form, naturally - _like an opposing argument when pondering the question_ : _what is man_ ? Below the fassade of written historiography, there's *the actual historical process* that can be grasped _partially_ - especially when secluding into a wilderness - but never clearly _in full_ - as if it were a 'divine economy', befitting a God. The currency of an actual 'Third Rome' will not be built upon the desire to generally accumulate ever larger sums of profit, but upon realistic, particular needs of the polity.

I wonder how the existence of sub cultures fit into the Cycle, competing factions of the future?

Interesting perspective. There are key, and often overlooked, inconsistencies in the consensus Dynastic Egypt narrative that deserves investigation (speaking as an archaeology graduate). A good place to start is the controversy surrounding the age of the Sphinx and its the limestone-built temples immediately next to it. Another are the finely-cut hard stone vessels, 10s of thousands of them, recovered from the c.5 km of catacombs beneath the alleged first dynastic pyramid at the Saqqara.

The idea of the petrification of the Russian spirit is a fascinating thing to consider given current events. One wonders what it's expression will be if and when it eventually emerges from the tomb it has been encased within. This may be a bit of a goofy observation, but I find it interesting that we are seeing the coincidence of the flat earth meme emerging back into reality just as the Russian spirit seems to be awakening after it's terrible trials during the last century. This came to me when I heard Spanglers symbol for Russia being the infinite plain. That is very similar to the imagination of the flat earth. Morgoth, thank you very much for these examinations of Spengler's philosophy. I listen to a very wide variety of media, but most of it is hard on the soul. In contrast, these videos are one of the few things that I really enjoy listening to. Thank you.

The voice of my people.

It is PETERONISM from peter the great, not peterism from petrified.

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“Practically every era of Western civilization has at one time or another tried to liberate itself from the Greeks, in deep dissatisfaction because whatever they themselves achieved, seemingly quite original and sincerely admired, lost color and life when held against the Greek model and shrank to a botched copy, a caricature. Time and time again a hearty anger has been felt against that presumptuous little nation which had the nerve to brand, for all time, whatever was not created on its own soil as “barbaric”. Who are these people, whose historical splendor was ephemeral, their institutions narrow, their mores dubious and sometimes objectionable, who yet pretend to the special place among the nations which genius claims among the crowd? None of the later detractors was fortunate enough to find the cup of hemlock with which such a being could be disposed of once and for all: all the poisons of envy, slander, and rage have proved insufficient to destroy that complacent magnificence. And so, people have continued to be both ashamed and fearful of the Greeks-though now and again someone has come along who has acknowledged the full truth: that the Greeks are the chariot drivers of every subsequent culture, but that almost always, chariot and horses are of too poor a quality for the drivers, who then make sport of driving the chariot into the abyss-which they themselves clear with the bold leap of Achilles.” - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

The domes that you point out for the islamic high culture are all Christian Byzantine architecture, ie. late, eastern Roman, early Christian architecture. That looked like the Hagia Sophia you first showed at 31:08, the greatest of all our "appropriated" churches. At 34:11, if you scrubbed off the "appropriations", that wouldn't be any different to any Orthodox church I've attended. Perhaps the calligraphy would be an alternative route to go down? That and the infinite geometry seems the primary Islamic art form (possibly for religious law reasons). I suppose you could say they "appropriated" that form because it suited their spirit? The Islamic dome is typically pointed and less dome-like, although the "half-dome" they've invented, basically a flat wall with a half-dome recess forming the building facade, which looks bizarre to me, does look quite cave-entrance-like. I do think Spengler is onto something with the internal struggle, light vs dark, cave stuff. This was really nice Morgoth, university lecture level stuff. Or rather superior, nowadays. Thank you.

Dostoyevsky being the father of bolshevism might have more creedence than you think. I was talking to someone yesterday about the barbarians in gaul in comparison to the vikings and i quoted edward gibbons decline and fall of the roman empire to which the person i was talking to said he was a propagandist and a "first generation humeian" i thought this was a bit harsh and my point was although hume went on to stir the pot of liberalism and lead to todays travesties of thought, he did not write das kapital or overthrow governments in 1848 he just unknowingly fathered a ideology of which when his time past he could no longer parent. My point with Dostoyevsky is later in his life he became a sort of paternal conservative icon of russia, independent of western culture. His previous mistress in his youth was socialism and all the jazz that comes with that. i think to put it figuratively he fathered the child of bolshevism in his youth with his mistress socialism, but it was not born until near his passing to which he was estranged from said mistress and probably retiring from public thought. He was probably seen as a threat from the right to the marxists and general socialists who then went on to seize public thought by force when they first took over russia. Im not an expert on the early history of the struggle to institute communism but im quite sure they did not have huge support for communism, only against the Czar/Tsar regime of which they used to justify them seizing power and instituting "the dictatorship of the proletariat" which is also of course a phrase used to make it sound less like a authoritarian government of which they were supposed to have just desposed of! Anyway the point is you don't always live long enough to parent your children and sometimes you die before they are born and their wicked mothers raise them instead.

Smarty pants Dugin learned the cost of free speech, and intellectual freedom.

Do you ever think, it's funny that Biffa Bacon's so right wing? Or, that you're lucky to even have someone that well known to compare yourself to?

Mind/body/spirit. Egyptian-western material thinking, Chinese-soulbody, Indian -spirit. Father material, son body, ether spirit.awesome look at civilizations working to be one someday.

Please do more on Russia. They are the only White people left with any possibility

He was right about India, it took British amateur explorers to discover Indian history and protect it, the Indians themselves had no interest in it at all

Disappointed with this rather turgid account of Spengler. I had expected a more original and, in true Morgoth style, radical approach.

Interesting video. I don't agree with Spengler on everything though. For example, I think while Marxism is foreign to Russian civilization, Stalinism was a return to the authentic Russian soul in line with Ivan the Terrible. De-Stalinization under Khrushchev was a return to Western-style Marxism, which eventually culminated in the Soviet collapse and imposition of Western liberalism on Russian civilization.

It's ironic that the pyramids were neither tombs nor recent. However every great civilisation has it's roots in the indo European, the architects of the world.

I don't actually see Russia in the ascendance. I believe this is wishful thinking. Spangler is talking about a Russian peasant that no longer exists

Curious if in hindsight America might be considered a different civilization than the Faustian one.

Ancient Ireland is as or more important then ancient Greece Egypt n Rome

Russia is going nowhere but towards extinction