Not sure if this belongs on /his/, but did any of you read it?

It's stupid and wrong.

People believe these "life-cycle" theories about civilizations and society because humans like to classify things, and because it allows us to make predictions of the future without actually doing any research. I know, because a while ago I thought it was correct too, until I came to the conclusion that the world is a complex place and that civilizations have a little more nuance than the rise-fall timeline Spengler ascribes.

There are a few small grains of truth, even unique ones in the book, but the main idea is just playing to your desire to organize things and feel smart without doing any work.

A few bits and pieces are very interesting, like the theory of a civilization's mathematics shaping its worldview and subsequent expression of culture, but most of it can be proven false with modern archaeology and anthropology.

It's worth reading even if the theory and some parts have it's problems, Spengler way of thinking was interesting by itself.

>>2932007
I like his discussion of the Greek inability to conceive of negative numbers

>>2929732

Nonsense written by an idiot for the benefit of simpletons.

>>2929732
It strides past a lot of the wrenching and writhing accepted Nostrodamus impersonators and mainstream sociology
suffers from, but his very obvious alienation from society makes his overall view tinny and almost irrelevant.
Like Nietzsche, the man was an auteur, and couldn't render context of himself, creating striking viewpoints
that are hard to fit into any useful study format. The book is art and therefore has a warped but extremely relevant vision of what is happening to the West.
That is, if your concept of the West is as his.