{"id":64108,"date":"2022-11-13T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64108"},"modified":"2022-11-13T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T12:42:08","slug":"the-decline-of-the-west-spengler-in-todays-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64108","title":{"rendered":"The Decline of the West: Spengler in Today\u2019s World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Decline of the West: Spengler in Today\u2019s World<\/a><\/h3>\n

Timelessness of thought and vision in world politics is a rare mark of grandeur. Oswald Spengler\u2019s\u00a0The Decline of the West<\/em>, written a century ago, deserves this distinction as it reads like it was done yesterday.<\/p>\n

The German historian-philosopher wrote in 1922 that the centuries old West-European-American civilization was in permanent and irretrievable decline in all manifestations of life including religion, art, politics, social life, economy and science. For him, the political, social and ideological dimensions of this decline were evident in the failings of the Western political class in both sides of the Atlantic. He saw politicians, mostly based in large cities, consumed by ideology and contempt towards silent majorities and described them as \u201ca new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, and deeply contemptuous of the countryman.\u201d Nowadays the Brussels-based European Union (EU) leadership, through their recurring disdain for nation sovereignty, fully befits this definition.<\/p>\n

Spengler believed that decadence in politics means predominance of ideology over action. \u201cMen of theory commit a huge mistake in believing that their place is at the head and not in the train of great events\u201d he wrote, unaware about how true this is today as we just saw the fall of UK Prime Minister Truss who sacrificed economics in the altar of ideology. Dogma destroying social cohesion and prosperity is also present in the wrecking of Europe\u2019s manufacturing competitiveness as their politicians forcibly deny cheap Russian energy or when Lilliputian Lithuania picks a fight with China in defence of Taiwan\u2019s \u201csovereignty.\u201d On the face of these events the German thinker would have repeated his assertion that \u201cthe political doctrinaire \u2026 always knows what should be done, and yet his activity, once it ceases to be limited to paper, is the least successful and therefore the least valuable in history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n

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The Decline of the West: Spengler in Today\u2019s World Timelessness of thought and vision in world politics is a rare mark of grandeur. Oswald Spengler\u2019s\u00a0The Decline of the West, written a century ago, deserves this distinction as it reads like it was done yesterday. The German historian-philosopher wrote in 1922 that the centuries old West-European-American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[33369,10641,14830,14359],"class_list":["post-64108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-oscar-silva-valladares","tag-oswald-spengler","tag-ron-paul-institute-for-peace-and-prosperity","tag-western-civilisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64109,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64108\/revisions\/64109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}