Hot take:
Spengler mistook fatigue for fate: a culture's winter for cosmic law.
He froze history into doom aesthetics and called it destiny, forgetting #dialectic, invention, and the obscene fact that decay is also compost.
Civilizations don't die; they mutate.
Growth hides in rot. 💩
Is the conceptualization of cultural appropriation an anti-mixingpot thesis?
Is it possible to be both cosmopolitan and anti-imperialist?
A quotation from Edna St. Vincent Millay
With him for a sire and her for a dam,Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet
Poem (1920-11), “The Singing-Woman from the Wood’s Edge,” Vanity Fair, Vol. 14, No. 3
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With him for a sire and her for a dam, What should I be but just what I am? Collected in A Few Figs from Thistles (1921). "Singing-Woman" is usually hyphenated in collections, but in Vanity Fair it was rendered "Singin' Woman" and in the original publication in Figs as…
As a Gnostic-German Idealist, I don't see MAGA as a movement.
I see metaphysical atrophy.
A spiritual cramp. A refusal to evolve.
The soul curling inward like a dying star,
trying to become gravity instead of light.
MAGA didn't lose their way.
They lost their capacity to become.
In manchen Dingen erscheint Österreich (mal wieder) als Petrischale zu den Auswirkungen national-völkischer Politik als Modell der Interessen von Kapitalhaltern und Boulevard-Medienmonopolisten zu deren protegierten antidemokratischen Rechtsruck.
Der Gegenwind einer linken Aufklärung findet aufgeweckt konturierte Beiträge zur Debatte. Ein Hinweis von mir zur Wiener Szene – für Leseinteressierte:
#activsm #austria #democracy #dialectic #left #resistance #solidarity
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