Many of those who consider themselves and declare that they're anti-modern in spirit decide, naturally, to deal with the end - with death, or with Décadence. Clarification: The end is certain, it is certain from the very beginning of organismic life. Décadence is a product of life, and it appears to be the strongest argument people have against their subject of their hate: Civilization or “Modernity”. But we must examine these phenomenons life, hear them breathing, inquire about their origins and lively conduct in order to comprehend and understand why they are fallacious and what is missing in our equation. This is what is left for us, this is what can we call virtue” -- It is a virtue to deal with life. Existence, mere existence, without actual life, is death by its own 'merit'.
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Try to break the chains of your own individuality, gain a concrete right of opinion through heightening your point of view; examine life as a whole, be used to look at it from mountain tops and not from the blurriness of fishily vision underwater - it is a great thing to examine and inquire the mechanisms of life, and to seek the answers to the question "
how things [such as cultures and civilizations] becomes themselves?".
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To do so one has to sharpen his mind and abstractly visualize and comprehend paradigms and patterns, possibilities, causality, innovation, traits,
Geist -- The first principle of the examiner is a pessimistic one: (almost) all things undergoing the process of "
becoming-a-thing will reach their terminal state or "status-quo-ex-prope-mors" (status quo out of near-death) which is passivity or exhaustion. The next maxim is yet another realization: some civilizations/cultures aim at passivity, some cultures are better (
consciously or unconsciously) because they live upon and become themselves as they adhere to traits and phenomenons that keep this world and history alive: Virtue, vice, goodness, sin, war-peace dynamics, poetry and art, wisdom, innovation, intuition, knowledge. Nevertheless, after all of which had become a matter of casualty and are taken for granted or lose their organic identity or true deriving force (behind every action and thought) and what we can call the "inner form" - cultures and civilizations deteriorate and rot, but only to be replaced by forces with a greater "libido" for life; cultures who fundamentally aspire to conquer life are triumphant. Some cultures or civilizational grouping only pretend to, they aim at passivity from possibility - The option or "freedom" of something is also its imprisonment. Every single trait and field mentioned above as derivative “life-forces” work in relation to Power. So when power is distributed awrong, when it dies out or reaches its point of singularity and when the main streams of life are drained into a singular point – a point where it has a single aim or target (or better to say: being target-less because of singularity) a state of passivity is in action, until the next irruptive abruption.
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Being essentially life-oriented is not living only the physical life or adhering only to the physical Being. Hedonism, for example, is almost always a conclusion of civilizational life - a window to a sickened soul, that desires no longer to explore, to think, to live - but retires into its evidential conclusiveness: life is about carnality.
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In many ways, that which creates a culture and a civilization is also their source of destruction. Nevertheless, there's a whole life between genesis and death. A Nietzschean evaluation of human capabilities is vital in a case life examination - to pursue a higher degree of living, to overcome our manliness. In a sense this is also taking Toynbee's approach rather Spengler's regarding the death of civilizations and cultures - Cultures and Civilization can survive and evolve rather than die out and cling verbally to a yellowing page in a history tome. Nevertheless, history proves that Spengler is right, and he's probably metaphysically right as well - regardless of the future and of the possibility Toynbee presents.
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History carried in its womb a new age and a new civilization out of the pairing of industrialism and the 1789 revolution made the western civilization was born; the western civilization had its moments, now it has reached fatigue and it'll die. Industrialism, Colonialism, Puritanism, Christian values secularized (and Secularization in general), the Death of God, Capitalism, Marxism-Communism-Socialism, Americanism; the manifestation of Enlightenment; Democracy, Individualism, Feminism, Liberalism, Fascism, Scientism / the rise of Science and the method of certification, New-Age, Technophilia and the Digitalized world. HEDONISM and Permissiveness are the final state of this civilization, they are finality, they had materialized after a conclusive victory (regardless of Truth or Reality - it is a 'reality') of some ideals and strives - they are here, and this civilization will die. The organic form of the our aging civilization was experimental more than any other civilization throughout history - it was the age of voyages that concluded themselves in the ultimate triumph of exhibitionism, the visual and the physical - like in many previous cultures/civilizations - in opposition of the chaotic but systematic power to conquer. Now things will emerge from this civilizations death as the West will shatter into numerous cultural units. The alternative is a global federation - this depends on whose triumph will it be.
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All arguments against civilization in favor of the abolishment of violence and the endeavoring of peace and tranquility are nonsensical, since vendettas or proto-warfare existed long before civilization. Stability? bringing us back to an ape like status won't make us more resilient. To reduce mankind back to a primitive state is to abandon things is to undo discovery, to heighten weakness and to repress power, "
power itself in man".To put this in proper phrasing:
It is the involution of man to ape.
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What everyone in the anti-civilizational host fail to see it that every insight they have about civilization is yet another product of civilization itself - our ability to see its' misfortune and self-negation. It's absurd to frame civilization as the entity which destroys m the things which gives man a his life, behind all of the above there's one motive and motif - the will to power.
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One of the most disturbing thing about it is the human bulk's inability to find a syncretic point, a point in which things which appear contradictory can actually exist and work coherently. So they turn into the past, and when the past repulses them - they go further back or further ahead ("Progress").
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When they go further back - they believe things that worked in the ever-expanding horizontal-linear time will work once again while ignoring the crucial speculation that these thing weren't exactly what they think they were, and that they can work once more after they already vanquished to be replaced by things which have a greater magnitude.
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Thinking is a wondrous illness, to suspend it is to be healthily dead."
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