Spengler on the Classical Civilization

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transient pigdog
Encountering Whigger Faustians (WF) online has made me realize that there's some truth to "orientalism" that progressive US colleges bemoan so much. While oriental stereotypes in regards to east azns are mostly true and harmless , this neurotic orientalization of fellow Europeans reeks of perfidious anglos poisoning the well.

Spenglerianism also fails to acknowledge the north-eastward cultural drift from Hellenism to Byzantism to the Slavic Orthodox model, the same way Germanic tribes have inherited the Latin West. WF autistically focus on the faustian component as if it was the amalgamation of Apollonian civilization and not just a sub-product of it.

Anyway, here's a better map.
Stars Down To Earth
Hey, it wasn't us Anglos who literally tried to make Eastern Europe an oriental colony.

True. Spengler didn't really take cultural drift into account - "the West" is really just the Romano-Germanic world.
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Cornelio
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Yet, it was also about the time of the Upanisads that the temporarily submerged pre-Aryan elements began to seep into the expanding Indian Culture, as submerged elements of the deceased Graeco-Roman world invaded Europe at the end of the Middle Ages; in both cases, it implied a Renaissance, a harking back to forms, customs and traditions which antedated the birth of the expanding Indian and European cultures. The ghosts of the great Harappa and Roman Civilizations haunted their successors, and many of their preserved cultural elements filtered into the new maturing Cultures.
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- Amaury de Riencourt, The Soul of India
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