Why do so many people keep recommending this grunting, nihilistic

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Why do so many people keep recommending this grunting, nihilistic idiot? He makes some cogent, but rather unoriginal and vague predictions about the future of western society, and generally seemed to dumb down worldwide human experience to a point where some of the histories he notes are barely representative of who he's actually talking about (he memes about how China hasn't changed in any way since 200AD, for instance).

He also generally comes across as a warmonger who thinks it was a good thing for the "Prussian spirit" that WWI began and for the Prussian people to be semi-regularly engaged in war, as Germans are a naturally warlike people, by his reckoning. But then, when Germany actually loses a war (which it's bound to do, eventually), he gets all grumpy and nihilistic again, apparently surprised that Germans bleed just the same as everyone else and are actually capable of losing things. His racialism in general is rather inconsistent, as he believes some of society's greatest civilizations to be independent constructs, with little to no influence stemming from great civilization to great civilization after a rise and a fall. But even after admitting that he believes ancient civilizations to be barely connected, he then implies that the German people are unique, in that they're eventually destined to wipe out other peoples and rule supreme, with the fall of German civilization being somewhere in the "murky darkness." In some ways it almost comes across as though he believes Germans could permanently stave off whatever eventual future will befall their civilization, which makes sense, as he started to view Hitler as a false God (but only after voting for him). There's an element of highly naive utopianism to him, which is of course common throughout socialism as a whole, whether it's "Prussian socialism" or otherwise (as much as I'm sure he'd disagree, what with his dislike of Marx).