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orpras  ·  4293 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Spengler's Ominous Prophecy

I felt like Spengler's theory was basically the practice of saying something true and then saying something else right afterward and pointing to the first thing as evidence that the second thing must be true.

Yeah, there's a solid prediction of the progression of Western civilization but I don't see any evidence that different civilizations can be taken as wholly independent.