Prove him wrong

Prove him wrong.
Protip: you can't.

I can't.

OP has not read any Spengler, ever.

Another /pol/ ratkid.

Sage and report.

Le Wrong Generation by Oswald Spergler.

The French Revolution was an event in which urban intellectuals, jealous of the Aristocracy used the masses to grasp control. They govern society with theory instead of principle, substitute quantity for quality. Just as the military need well trained leadership, so does society. Irreligious, Rational, Materialistic men sterilize everything by analyzing it; including themselves. Children are considered in terms of "pros" and "cons". Art, architecture, clothing, furniture, music lose their form, becoming ever changing popular fads.

Lacking discipline to reform themselves, intellectual "world improvers" constantly propose theories on how to govern society. All forms of social distinction, good manners, honor, authority, rank are ceaselessly attacked and deconstructed. This process will continue until the idea exhausts itself-- Nihilism and Chaos.

Destiny has put us in this era of decay. We can face our fate with courage, or be cowardly optimists.

Every culture has gone through its own form of Nihilism and Skepsis, where skeptics question everything. How long then, does a Culture survive? After a certain number of generations, each culture transforms into civilization. What was formerly alive, becomes rigid and cold. Expansiveness of mind and spirit is replaced with a lust for expansion in the MATERIAL world. Life guided by ideals is replaced by life guided by politics and economics. The power of these ideas becomes strong, so much that it leads to Imperialism. A sign of transformation: is a Socrates, Buddha, Lao Tsu, Rousseau. They enunciate ultimate, but Earthly ideals with practical and terminal ideas. The materialistic ideas of mass and number begin to dominate the culture, governments try to appeal to the most, plebeian catchwords are used "equality" "the common good" "the working man".

In this era of transition, a man like Alexander the Great emerges (for the west it is Napoleon). His immense military success is due to ignoring Chivalric military traditions. Materialist thought guides military strategy. Technology and Mass are used to win. Armies shrink in size soon after, into voluntary professional armies, most join for money or love of combat. Armies gradually become privatized, Pacifism becomes popular in reaction, Society becomes increasingly litigious, Money is an Idea, which slowly becomes more abstract, until it itself becomes a power. It buys state power, and over time, the lines separating Politics and Commerce slowly fade away. Business and government combine, forming an Imperial Government.

There are men who desire power, who cannot be stopped.

>not creatively celebrating the role you have been assigned to by history
Pleb, we are like parachutists being thrown out of an airplane. We have no choice but to accept the hand we have been dealt and to make the best out of it.

The disease of Liberalism: it can never tolerate authority.

You get rid of the European aristocracy and the Bourgeoisie takes their place . . . and then you claim we need to overthrow the Bourgeoisie! The Revolution swallows its own people. Revolutionaries are nothing but murderous cowards. Society didn't become more free after the French Revolution, it became less so. And when the Bourgeoisie is overthrown and replaced by the Communist Party society will be even less free (as history as shown).

Liberals and Socialists are useful idiots. They can't see that behind the cry of "Liberty! Overthrow your oppressors!" there is an even greater tyrannical force waiting to take over.

The Old Kings of Europe at least had a modicum of sympathy for their subjects, because they knew that their subjects were immortal souls like themselves and that they would be judged more harshly by God because of their greater responsibility (look it up, this is the universal teaching of the Church). Now, the masters that have replaced the Kings of Europe with their "Enlightenment ideals" only look as humans as cattle who are to be placated with vain entertainment and food so as to keep them docile. THAT is the Enlightenment: the gradual reduction of human dignity from Sons of God to Dumb Apes that need to be brainwashed (look it up; read Walter Lippman's "Public Opinion" or Edward Bernays' "Propaganda", for example).

It was no accident that the Bolshevik Communists slaughtered Christians and persecuted the Russian Orthodox Church: Communism/Socialism is inherently godless; it views humanity as just another animal that needs to be effectively managed and farmed.

Such Enlightenment. Such Illumination.

>urban intellectuals, jealous of the Aristocracy used the masses to grasp control.

Wow the Third Estate used the Third Estate so the Third Estate could gain control? Fucking shocking.

Are you implying that the bourgeoisie and the proletariat have a common interest? How reactionary.