The Decline of (not only) the West but of humankind itself
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Oswald Spengler’s classic work, The Decline of the West,
molded my thinking that caused me to challenge Bryan Sentes’ crazy optimum that
Australia’s Aborigenal culture was as worthy of consideration as the cultures
delineated by Spengler and academic historians…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Decline_of_the_West
Sentes was wrong, as usual, taking quaint primitive lifestyles as comparable to the cultures defined by Spengler and others.
This has nothing to do with the Aborigines peoples, but only their cultural stasis, which is now pretty much as it was 40,000 years ago.
Spengler’s declining cultures, along with Jung’s observations about the declining Age of Enlightenment stoke me and others to note how badly civilization is now, at the 2022 year of measurement.
Literary magazines and periodicals keep relocating to the lost eras of fiction and non-fiction, while trying to salvage a few good words for today’s output. They fail to make a case.
The same is true for music and art, and most of culture.
And how does this impact Ufology or the (lame) culture of UFO enthusiasm?
The UFO scene is awash in scatterbrained chatter, hypothetical speculation, even my own.
UFO fan(atics) are grabbing photos of anything that’s aloft, and shivering as they take their sightings to social media.
People are claiming mass abductions and any reference to UFOs is now bracketed with the alien appendage.
If you’re paying attention to newscasts, you’re aware that society is amiss and generally pathologic.
The UFO environment reflects that pathology, participants and enthusiasts aloft in fairyland, besotted by the AATIP videos and the idea that UAP is a scientific euphemism.
While the whole of the modern culture – our era – is loopier in its few thousand years of historical time than the millions of years given to our primitive species, that small, fringe segment of society to which this blog is dedicated, is awash in nonsense that almost challenges the rest of society – the culture – it intrudes upon.
The UFO phenomenon has become a pastiche of madness – as I keep boringly pointing out.
And no one is struggling to rein it in….no one.
RR
Sentes was wrong, as usual, taking quaint primitive lifestyles as comparable to the cultures defined by Spengler and others.
This has nothing to do with the Aborigines peoples, but only their cultural stasis, which is now pretty much as it was 40,000 years ago.
Spengler’s declining cultures, along with Jung’s observations about the declining Age of Enlightenment stoke me and others to note how badly civilization is now, at the 2022 year of measurement.
Literary magazines and periodicals keep relocating to the lost eras of fiction and non-fiction, while trying to salvage a few good words for today’s output. They fail to make a case.
The same is true for music and art, and most of culture.
And how does this impact Ufology or the (lame) culture of UFO enthusiasm?
The UFO scene is awash in scatterbrained chatter, hypothetical speculation, even my own.
UFO fan(atics) are grabbing photos of anything that’s aloft, and shivering as they take their sightings to social media.
People are claiming mass abductions and any reference to UFOs is now bracketed with the alien appendage.
If you’re paying attention to newscasts, you’re aware that society is amiss and generally pathologic.
The UFO environment reflects that pathology, participants and enthusiasts aloft in fairyland, besotted by the AATIP videos and the idea that UAP is a scientific euphemism.
While the whole of the modern culture – our era – is loopier in its few thousand years of historical time than the millions of years given to our primitive species, that small, fringe segment of society to which this blog is dedicated, is awash in nonsense that almost challenges the rest of society – the culture – it intrudes upon.
The UFO phenomenon has become a pastiche of madness – as I keep boringly pointing out.
And no one is struggling to rein it in….no one.
RR
posted by RRRGroup at
Tuesday, June 07, 2022
3 Comments:
The inertia of madness.
Spengler's work is central to James Blish's "Cities In Flight." In the fiction, there were enough embers of enlightenment left to develop interstellar flight, so at least humanity had a chance to run away from the chaos and start afresh -- which ultimately was impossible since it came along with the human baggage. (No room in Spengler or Blish's world for UFOs.) But there was an uptick of hope at the very end of the novel(s).
Hope is allowed in fiction, a commodity in small supply in the "real" world.
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Ron, at Tuesday, June 07, 2022
I felt pretty good earlier today but just had a conversation with one of my media guys, about the World Bank's forecast of a dire future, with anecdotal asides about how my guy's brother was having trouble finding foodstuffs in northern Michigan.
I think we're in for some real problems....caused by my mischievous "gods"?
RR
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RRRGroup, at Tuesday, June 07, 2022
The "gods" of the COVID stalled economy, unbridled misinformation, and polarized politics. I also believe that failure of newspapers and its published investigative reporting is at the root of the problem.
BD
By
Bryan Daum, at Wednesday, June 08, 2022
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