Ossifying Into Fellaheendom │ Oswald Spengler

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«We Germans won’t ever once more obtain Goethe, however we’ll obtain Caesar» 

 Feb 7, 2022 – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz within the joint information convention with US President Biden. Biden had simply declared that the US would destroy the Russian-German Nord Stream 2 pipeline. “If Russia invades, meaning tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine once more, then there will probably be not a Nord Stream 2. We are going to carry an finish to it.” When requested how, the US president mentioned, “I promise you, we will probably be ready do this.” On this image Biden is watching Scholz whether or not this one had discovered his lesson on learn how to behave as an excellent governor of a US vassal-state. 

» For Spengler, we [the Germans] have now been within the part of a decaying tradition for greater than 100 years, which has handed its peak and is already deep within the part of civilization, the ossifying tradition, which can both get replaced by a brand new tradition – Spengler thought-about a ninth, in all probability Russian tradition doable – or will ossify right into a Fellachentum [Fellaheendom], by which Spengler – within the type of Nietzsche’s contempt for the plenty – sees the boring plenty residing in entrance of them, not able to cultural innovation. Spengler’s well-known sentence «We Germans won’t ever once more obtain Goethe, however we’ll obtain Caesar» is meant to point out that even within the stage of civilization, nice duties await us. It’s not the self-contained, perfecting tradition of the Rococo, whose image was the poet-statesman Goethe, however a Roman age, characterised by hard-headed males of motion who construct political and financial empires. «

(Oswald Spengler and the Chariot: A Plea for Common Historical past.)

 

 

 

See additionally:
Oswald Spengler (February 06, 1934) – The Chariot and Its Significance within the Course of World Historical past. 

Lecture delivered on the Society of Pals of Asian Artwork and Tradition in Munich, German Reich.