The Destiny of the West

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"For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution." —Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction: A morphological view of history
2:10 Analogous vs homologous forms
3:58 Winter = Civilization
6:12 The Faustian prime symbol
8:45 The dictatorship of money
11:47 Conclusion: Caesarism

References:
- Oswald Spengler: The Decline of the West Volume I: Form and Actuality
- Oswald Spengler: The Decline of the West Volume II: Perspectives of World-History

Image: Aqueduct near Rome by Thomas Cole

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