The Decline of the West

And, um, and this is, this is the one book I would recommend for all of those reasons.

He does write it as a, um, uh, he intends it to be the sort of, uh, sequel to Decline of the West.

Um, Spengler, Spengler was Yockey's biggest single influence.

Um, when Yockey traveled around in his suitcase, he would keep a copy of, he would keep a copy of Decline of the West in the original German, both volumes.

He would keep a copy of Man and Technics in the original German, uh, of, uh, The Hour of Decision, of the essay Prussianism and Socialism, and I believe one or two other texts Spengler wrote.

But, but these were the only texts that Yockey kept on his person at all times, more or less.

Not just the American, but that the, uh, New England Yankee and the, uh, the Southern, um, uh, the Southern planter.

All of these people come from the same source, come from the same well, and Spengler talks about this.

If you read Cardo publications in the early 90s, Whether it was Noontide Press books or whether it was American Free Press, Fernandez Iacchi was always popping up.

I'm like, what is this all about? In instauration, they made the point that Imperium is the sequel to Spengler's Decline of the West and The Hour of Decision and Man and Techniques and all these things that are

going to severally cause Spengler's diagnosis of the 20th century.

um, the inner warriors, um, if you will.

He's an independent scholar who for a long time was based here in Chicago and this book profit decline is both like an intellectual biography of Oswald Spangler, as well as he kind of, um, kind of, uh, like an abridged explanation of, of his whole body of work and core concepts.

Um, you know, I, it, uh, because frankly, it's not in the cards.

I think for a lot of people to read, uh, the two volumes or three volumes of decline of the west in its original form um and then um you know kind of kind of pour over that and imperium like some kind of scholastic and then try and decipher um you know the the context um

i'd uh I'd say George Sorrell is

There you go.

And then a guy named Oswald Spangler wrote a book called The Decline of the West.

And based on Nietzsche...

He just – and this was in between World War I and World War II.

By no means are they interested in having a real conversation about what might actually be going on.

And so there is a book that I have been reading for a long time called Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth.

And you guys will hear me reference some things from this book as we go throughout this journey.

And also other authors and other historians who have commented on the same thing that we're going to talk about today, how we ended up here.

So we talked about in the last two Wednesdays, the first kind of episode in this series that we're doing here, we talked about how a big foundational reason why we have wound up here as Americans or as the West as a whole is because we've chosen to cast off the truth.

Yeah.

What were you guys thinking?

I was thinking particularly, you know, and we keep saying the machine and so on and so forth, and that's what the book talks about a lot is the machine and, like, how it is fed or what's the derivatives of it.

But I find it extremely interesting that, as you said, you sort of prayed about how you could incorporate these different aspects of other cultures into ours, and the answer was that you can't.

And that reminded me of something that Oswald Spengler talks about in The Decline of the West, how he says that when you have these different cultures with their unique world feeling-

Mm-hmm

... that when a new culture arises or maybe they overlap, but they never blend, and that even if you incorporate parts of another culture into yours, it can never become that culture.