[Main Blog Post] Understanding Spengler's Decline of the West Bit 2: Culture as Organism

[jprussell]

Here we are with part two in my series of posts on understanding what to take from Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West. This post is on maybe the key thought from the books - that Cultures/Civilizations are best thought of as organisms with their own lifecycle.

Comments

[thinking_turtle]

Thanks for this! Many descriptions from the table are instantly recognizable, like modern art and the cult of science.

The time spans involved seem very long. Our lifetime will be spent in a single row of the table.