#spenglerian

[the-funtime-autocrat]

Of course, the intention here is not to state that Spirit, which is represented by a skull, is a Thing; there is not meant to be any materialism, as it is called, in this idea; rather Spirit must be something more and other than these bones.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, “The Phenomenology of Spirit” (1807).

[the-funtime-autocrat]

Liberalization of anything leads to excess and decay which leads to social restrictions as the solution.

[the-funtime-autocrat]

According to Spengler, Russian Orthodox architecture does not represent the infinity towards space that is symbolized by Western high culture's Gothic Cathedral spire, nor the enclosed space of the Mosque of the Magian Culture, but the impression of sitting upon a horizon. Spengler considered that this Russian architecture is 'not yet a style, only the promise of a style that will awaken when the real Russian religion awakens.

Kerry Bolton, “Russia and the Fight Against Globalization.”

[the-funtime-autocrat]

Jocho (Yamamoto) employed the analogy of the seasons, reminiscent of Spengler in describing the historical cycles: "However the season cannon always be spring or summer, nor can we have daylight forever." According to Jocho's advice, one should not look to nostalgia and the return of obsolete forms, nor to the superficiality of what is "up to date" while "detesting the old fashioned," but should "make each era as good as it can be according to its nature."

Kerry Bolton, “The Decline and Fall of Civilizations.”

[the-funtime-autocrat]

The Mauryan Empire united much of India, and under Asoka, a practical unifying ethos of Dhamma was formulated by combining elements of Buddhism and Hinduism that was "pragmatic and intensely ethical." A moral discipline was imposed by Asoka's Dhammic edicts, prohibiting excessive feasting and drinking, animal fights and sacrifices. Family was the social foundation. Theft was rare, laws were straightforward, resources and food were abundant, metallurgy, manufacturing textiles, and carpentry, including boat-building, were widespread and impressive, according to Greek observers. Typical of the High Culture cycle, economic activity was organized through guilds. Merchants were forbidden excessive profits and subjected to laws protecting the public from poor-quality goods. Mauryan India was noted for its excellence of its stone monuments and buildings, initiated by Asoka. In particular the Mauryan stone columns, crowned with colossal animal sculptures were considered without equal in the world.

Kerry Bolton, “The Decline and Fall of Civilizations.”

[the-funtime-autocrat]

It is the animalisation of man, his reduction to savagery in a raw competition for survival, that eliminates the divine spark. We see the same atavistic urge in Capitalism and Marxism, formulated as doctrines under the same Zeitgeist as Darwinism, to account for history as a "struggle" of contending economic forces; "class struggle" in the case of Marxism, individual struggle in the case of the Free Trade Manchester School, but Darwinesque economic struggle nonetheless. England was the home of the economic Zeitgeist which reached it's height during the 19th century, and while Marx is regarded as one of the leading so-called "Left-wing Hegelians" of his time, he rejected the spiritual basis of Hegel's dialectics, and wrote "Das Kapital" as a resident of Britain, under the impress, not of German Idealism, but of English economics.

Kerry Bolton, “The Decline and Fall of Civilizations.”

[the-funtime-autocrat]

The early labor movement recognized the crux of the immigration problem: the necessity of dispensing with reliance on migrant labor, something that has contributed to the bringing down of civilizations from the Nubian labor of ancient Egypt to the reverse colonization of Europe by the migrants of ex-colonies.

Kerry Bolton, “Babel Inc.”

[the-funtime-autocrat]

Western Civilization is regarded as the descendant in particular of the Greco-Roman, with major input from the Arab, Indian and Chinese. Such similarities are superficial. The Western perspective is not Greek, Roman, Indian, Arab or Chinese, anymore than the Russian is Western. The Western perspective of infinite space, that Spengler called "Faustian," informed every aspect of its High Culture including those elements that were adapted from others, such as the column and the arched vault; becoming the purely Western-Faustian "Gothic" style.

Kerry Bolton,  “The Decline and Fall of Civilizations.”