[Main Blog Post] Understanding Spengler's Decline of the West Bit 5: Rationalism and Religiousness

[jprussell]

I think this will be the second-to-last post on The Decline of the West, at least for now. The next one will be a "grab bag" of quotes and thoughts that didn't quite rise to the level of "I should do a full post about this."

As always, I appreciate your thoughts and if there's anything I'm missing or that you'd like to see more of.

Comments

[sdi]

On the topic of ages of Reason and systems of Reason, I really love how the Faustian mindset is so obsessed with straight lines to infinity that we even worked out a convoluted way for how the planets really actually move in straight lines no really it's everything else that is curved seriously stop laughing.

Silly things like that are kinda hard to unsee once you start seeing them.

[jprussell]

Heh, I hadn't heard general relativity explained that way, but that is pretty funny!