L' uomo e la tecnica. Contributo a una filosofia della vita

Here's the thing: Spengler is an extremely interesting figure in the realm of speculative philosophy. He is, however, a horrible historian and an even worse scientist. These things get in the way of his precient views on the future. It's amazing to watch him make an ass of himself insofar as Darwin

Whilst Spengler's conception of technology as being the fruits of a predatory ur-nature, which in society is translated into creativity and Will-to-power -- for its own sake -- is interesting and his concern for ecology appreciated, the book is rife with dogmatic essentialism, a very narrow view of

A book that is rather a work of art than science. This book adds new pages to the vision of The Downfall of the Occident, now from the perspective of technics. Instinctively right on many accounts, deeply wrong and at times outdated in some of its science and historiography. Spengler was the man of

Optimism is cowardice

Spengler predicts the fall of Faustian (Nordic) civilization because of us giving away our technics to the colored peoples while simultaneously those same technics have become too complex for the people who actually work with them. According to Spengler, the geniuses of our civilization (the leaders Leggi tutto

It was over before it even begun, the technocapital singularity had captured us with the mutation of perpendicular thumbs. A C C E L E R A T E !

I have made reflections about this book, and I think there are problems with some ideas presented here. The author seems to think that all human actions are not natural, to the point which he says that man is battling with nature, but nature is the stronger of the two. I understand the author's contem Leggi tutto