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We continue analyzing Spengler’s Civilization Model for clues explaining the current chaos the Western world is now suffering in its death throes. In Part 1 of in this series, we looked at Spengler’s political predictions made 100 years ago for modern times. We saw they were dead on accurate when examining current events in the West. In this installment, we’ll look at Spengler’s spiritual predictions. We will see they also jive with current events.

Given that the West is currently in Winter (the dying phase) of the civilization model, we find Spengler predicted we would see the dawn of megalopolitan civilization as the population shifted from being rural and agrarian to urban and cosmopolitan in composition. This is so obvious to see it almost doesn’t need explanation.

In the U.S. most people are familiar with the Northeast megalopolis, which spans from New York to Boston to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. This is the most heavily populated area of the nation, and has almost become one continuous city spanning several states. Other megaregions or clusters of cities include the Great Lakes, Florida, Piedmont Atlantic, Texas Triangle, Gulf Coast, Front Range, Cascadia, and Southern California megalopolises. Indeed, this is the age of the megalopolis in the West even though many of these urban centers are already decaying from within – showing winter civilizational blight. Detroit is a perfect example of this urban blight, although many of America’s inner cities are showing their own signs of decay.

The great megalopolitan areas are blighting because the West has seen the extinction of its spiritual creative life force. There is little spirituality left in our civilization since Christianity is in decline, as are its teachings. Traditions and religion are now mocked rather than respected and the focus of daily life in the West has shifted from living according to traditions and principles to living according to the laws of economics and the machinations of politics.

Life itself has become problematical as a result of this obsession with economics (economic growth is everything in this culture) and the population shifting from an organic, rural base to an inorganic, urban base. As a result, Americans in particular have lost touch with their biology as gender bending becomes the norm and women become wannabe men who choose to chase dollars and careers rather than become moms. This is total insanity, biologically speaking, and it should come as no surprise this population can no longer sustain itself.

Westerners now try to satisfy their biological urges by buying material things, but this only provides them fleeting pleasure and not the spiritual fulfillment a family would bring. It doesn’t take long for this inorganic society to get caught up in a cycle of consumer driven insanity by trying to please themselves with an unending cycle of materialistic purchases, always missing the point that this extrinsic search for spiritual fulfillment will never make them happy.

Westerners no longer know how to look for intrinsic, spiritual happiness, and now look for happiness to come from outside themselves. Take a look at the world around us. Our machine culture is one of problems and solutions, complete with a materialistic world outlook, and a cult of science, utility and prosperity. There is nothing spiritual about it.

Beyond religion, it’s easy to see that native populations of Europe and the founding population of the United States have lost their life force since whites are now dying off at a rapid pace. The media disguises this by saying the white population is “aging” when the truth is it is aging because it is dying. Liberalism is a suicide cult that has perverted Western thinking, and represents the end of the spiritual creative life force in the West.

Reproduction, a crucial part of the life cycle for any biological organism is now weighed in terms of “pros” and “cons” amongst Westerners, which has led to them become demographically sterile. This is a predictable consequence for a society that only knows how to think rationally and not spiritually.

Philosophically, we also see ethical-practical tendencies of an irreligious and unmetaphysical cosmopolitanism. The simplest way to visualize this prediction is by watching the ongoing spread of the evil ideology Socialism. Socialism is metastasizing like a cancer through the body politic of the Western world. The Socialist creed is, of course, irreligious and bereft of any spiritual quality.

The West is cosmopolitan in that it no longer believes in itself, but now looks to other cultures for guidance. From the liberal obsession with ethnic restaurants to their tolerance of other religions but not Christianity, this cosmopolitan xenophilia also represents the end of the spiritual creative life force that once drove the West to greatness. This is a culture that no longer believes in itself, and even hates itself.

The spread of ethical Socialism since 1900 was predicted to be the final world sentiment of the West as it dies, and with current events in the political world that certainly seems to be an astute prediction. Socialists are gaining ground in the U.S. and the European Union is becoming the Soviet Union in all but name, as the West as we have known it for the past 1,000 years is dying from within and falling apart from without.

Further study of the spiritual section of Spengler’s Civilization Model allows one to study the evolution of spirituality amongst 4 cultures (including our own) in detail, going back to around the year 1000 when the modern Western world began developing. One can also compare and contrast the development of each season of the model in Indian, Greek, and Magian (Middle Eastern) cultures respectively by looking at each column of the table.

Note the Indian and Magian cultures still exist, but they haven’t been dominant forces on the world stage since the time of their decline. Each respective culture became shadows of their former greatness, as the West soon will. Each formerly great civilization was living rather primitively after its decline until those cultures picked up on the vitality of the West. As the West disintegrates, primitive human conditions will once again thrust up into the highly civilized mode of living. Westerners will likely find themselves conquered in the near future, and subject to a way of living that is foreign to them.

In the third and final installment, we’ll look at how Western art (music, paintings, and film) has completely degenerated in the modern era. It too, is uncannily following the predictions of the civilization model.

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Decline of the West, the exhaustive study of the rise of fall of civilizations containing prescient predictions for Western civilization published in 1918 by Oswald Spengler has been discussed often here at this outpost. As time goes on, the predictions laid out in what should be viewed as one of the greatest works in human history become even more plain to see. The genius of Spengler’s civilization model becomes increasingly irrefutable.

The political, spiritual, and artistic forms that sustained the West for a millennia are now going to hell in a handbasket. Chaos is coming.

Spengler’s Civilization Model is proving to be astonishingly accurate. Even more impressive is how much the world has changed in just a generation or two, especially considering that a mere 20 years ago one would have called you a nutter if you told them total destruction is where the West was headed. Nowadays though, this is a common topic amongst the masses as Spengler’s predictions are quietly coming to fruition.

In this first of three installments, we’ll take a quick look at the political predictions Spengler made a century ago. Forthcoming installments two and three will look at how Western spirituality and art have also begun the process of full disintegration.

Let’s look at some predictions from Spengler’s Civilization Model and apply them to the crumbling world we see all around us.

Reading from left to right, top down we find a perfect description of 21st century America and Europe. The body of the people is essentially urban in constitution, with 80% of the U.S. population now living in an urban area. Thanks to liberalism, the population is indeed dissolving into a formless mass. We can see this manifest itself with the rise of the degenerate freak mafia (liberals) infesting the body politic like cancer. Degeneracy is now the rule rather than the norm. Rather than the traditional form the Western population assumed, we are now plagued by a blue/pink/green haired, gender confused, fat, greedy, slothful population.

The population is also inorganic in that it is no longer tied to the land or biology. What better way to illustrate this than the gender bending society we have turned into, one that is demographically and biologically suicidal with dying white populations in both America and Europe as even children are now regularly encouraged to change their gender by either cutting off a penis or sewing one on rather than keeping the sex they were born with.

At the top, item #1: Domination of Money (Democracy) and economic powers permeating the political forms and authorities refers to how sold out governments in the West have become. As TNMM has posited before, today’s economic powers and political forms have merged and are practically one and the same – our ruling class have become a true corporate-government complex.

TNMM will also now propose the idea that JFK was assassinated by forces inside the U.S. government in 1963, and that Americans have been living in a pseudo-republic since then. (This is not Spengler’s prediction, but it fits the model well and offers a much more plausible explanation than the laughable Lee Harvey Oswald “lone nut” cover story that has been used to explain assassinations and mass shootings to the point of being worn out over the last 50 years.)

The assassination of JFK represented the victory of moneyed powers over the power of the people. Often called the Deep State, moneyed powers refers to elites and shadowy figures from the CIA and NSA running the American government rather than elected officials. Everything since JFK’s assassination has been a sham, something we will detail at a later time.

We are transitioning to items #2 and #3 on the list. Increasing primitiveness of political forms is plain to see with the Democrats becoming the anti-white party and the Republicans becoming the white party in America. Identity politics and its attendant tribal warfare are ripping the republic apart. This will intensify to the point leaders will no longer be elected, and much like in the Roman Empire one will have to kill to get into office.

Inward decline of the nations into a formless population can be represented by the sharp transition America has made from being a nation that was 92% white as recently as 1960, to whites making up a scant 1/3 of its population among newborns before 2050. America is quickly becoming the “polyglot boarding house” Teddy Roosevelt warned against, the definition of a formless population with no common language or culture. Anyone who tells you ethnicity and a particular ethnic group’s culture has nothing to do with a nation’s characteristics and its destiny is totally brainwashed by liberalism.

Formation of Caesarism and victory of force politics over money are yet to come, but Donald Trump’s ascendance to the presidency represents this coming change as the republic crumbles and the nation one day returns to the rule of a single man. Trump was elected because the people long for a leader to bring order to the chaos created by battling ethnic factions in today’s democracy of demagoguery. Democracy will self-destruct because whites and non-whites have very different ways of life. This will continue to exhibit itself in opinions on government policy making the system increasingly unworkable.

Finally, #3: Historyless stiffening and enfeeblement even of the imperial machinery, against young peoples eager for spoil or alien conquerers is already well advanced in the West. The U.S. military is supposedly the most powerful in the world, yet the nation is so enfeebled by liberalism it can’t control its own southern border. There is no doubt whatsoever the West is being demographically conquered – Europe by Muslims and America by Mestizos. We are also losing touch with our history as liberals relentlessly assault it by viewing everything through the myopia of “racism”  – most recently by tearing down historical statues.

Primitive human conditions thrust up into the highly civilized mode of living is coming in full force sooner rather than later. (Technology has sped up the timeline, and section #3 will come much sooner than the year 2200 Spengler predicted.) While we can already see the decay of great Western cities like Detroit (and Future Detroit a.k.a. New York City with the election of Socialist leaders like Ocasio-Cortez) truly primitive conditions will arise as a result of people desperately trying to escape the so-called matrix.

It’s not hard to imagine that as electronic sentinels increasingly rule over our lives, monitoring everything we do with cameras and sensors all around us – even what we say in our homes and how we drive our cars – those who seek to be free will eschew technology altogether. It’s becoming ever clearer that technology is meant to enslave humanity, not free it. Once this realization hits the masses, we will see a sharp rise in primitive human conditions as people flee the electronic plantation.

There’s no way out of this. Many Trump voters think the West can escape its fate, but it ultimately cannot. Trump and others may help postpone it, but the forces driving the rise and fall of civilizations are beyond our control.

In many ways, the West is already dead. We are the last remaining cells that cling to life even though the organism known as Western Civilization has died. What is our duty? To cling to the lost ideals of the West – to “life” – as long as possible. Spengler wrote in Man and Technics:

We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.

The ground rumbles beneath us, just as it once did at Pompeii. There’s nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide from the ongoing implosion of the West. We can only try to make the best of the situation. As Spengler knew, optimism is cowardice. Brave pessimism will get the new modern man much more mileage.

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