4:52 Every RINO "conservative" makes this pained face when you tell them you have to have a strategy and actually do something rather than sit on your hands and react to the events that have already happened, hoping for a miracle.
I had thought Spengler to be much less mainstream. Interesting that some of the most important men in America were somewhat interested in his ideas at some point.
The most important men in American history were far from mainstream, and that's how they've always wanted it, after all that's what presidents are for.
He's sort of deliberately ignored by modern academia, I think for his associations in part but more importantly because his thesis runs so contrary to that of academia, one of potentially infinite progress which is held by both Marxists and liberals. The institution of higher education tends to lose some of its appeal if it promotes the idea that the future will be worse than the present, because if that's the case then what's the point of going to university.
@@laniakea777 Go back to heidegger incel: "Spengler viewed Nazi anti-Semitism as self-defeating, and personally took an ethnological view of race and culture. In his private papers, he remarked upon "how much envy of the capability of other people in view of one's lack of it lies hidden in anti-Semitism!", and arguing that "when one would rather destroy business and scholarship than see Jews in them, one is an ideologue, i.e., a danger for the nation. Idiotic"
@@laniakea777(sigh) Nation at one time was a literal term, describing a political entity comprised of people all genetically related or even all descended from one person. Nation now is ideological rather than genetic. Israel is an example of that, no longer must you show heritage from a specific tribal leader to become an Israeli citizen. The USA is a nation in the ideological sense. People who are not even distantly related to George Washington recognize him as the father of our country. Jew bashing is a waste of your time, intellect and energy. The people who were trying to destroy the West in Nixon’s time, and in ours, are Marxists, not Jews. Marxists hate Jews in a way you can’t comprehend… unless you’re a Marxist.
“The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.” ― Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World
"To reverse a trend requires more than a proclamation." Constitution, shmonstitution. The man gave Nixon a copy of Decline of the West to show Nixon who's boss.
To be fair, certainly at the moment, I’d much rather be outside the EU than within it. German economy has been totally screwed by current events, if it goes down which is very possible, it takes the eurozone down with it too. However, that was just a randomly fortuitous benefit of Brexit. Western civilisation is in its decline stage, democracy and specifically universal suffrage is the problem. Just as with Brexit, the plebeians are unable to make complex decisions in the wider societal interest. Plato was correct in this respect.
Is breaking free from a strait jacket a deluded action? What miracle were they hoping for other than leaving an undemocratic club which they no longer wanted to be a part of?
@@Confucius_76 Undemocratic? UKIP has not been able to get a single MP elected ever. And yet in the European Parliament there were over a dozen UKIP MPs. The EUP was the only platform they had and Farage is desperate to get any attention since. Sure sounds 'undemocratic' to me?
@@yp77738yp77739 You really do not understand Brexit and it's implications. They weren't and aren't using the euro. Wether or not the eurozone takes a hit, it simply doesn't matter because they are tied to it REGARDLESS of wether or not they are in the EU. Them being in the EU essentially meant that they had their cake and ate it too: They had their own currency and good trade deals, all while maintaining a high degree of their own autonomy. Leaving the EU now meant that they lost their biggest off-set markt for businesses and weren't able to hire cheap labour anymore from the EU. Their economic decline since brexit has reached record levels.
@@AMeanDude I disagree, the EU was and remains a shrinking market. The UK should be looking to expand trade in markets which are expanding, Asia and Africa. There hasn’t been the economic decline that was forecast. I know the pharmaceutical trade rather well, if anything it accelerated post Brexit. Regarding immigration, the country should be permitted to allow immigration from sectors of the workforce that are needed, not a completely open policy. I’d much rather a highly educated immigrant comes in from China or India, than some peasant farmer from Poland. We had about 3 million Poles here at one point. I worked in the UK and mainland Europe. The UK problem was that it enacted and implemented all the ridiculous and harmful legislation coming from Brussels, whereas, for example in Germany, they largely ignored it. The primary reason for Brexit was uncontrolled immigration, it was xenophobia which is an intrinsic instinct in us all. The inward rate was so high that there was no integration with existing and established communities.
