Imperium: The Last Act

If you find the Imperium part of the video repetitive please go to the ending @ 23:35 for the concluding thoughts. I adding many examples to introduce Spengler's vision of the West and make this video a starting point for others on their journey towards understanding Western Civilization.

Spengler described the process by which Enlightenment rationalism undermines and destroys itself, passing from unlimited optimism to unqualified skepticism. The Cartesian self-centered rationalism leads to schools of thought that do not cognize outside of their own constructed worlds, ignoring actual every-day life experience. It applies criticism to its own artificial world until it exhausts itself in meaninglessness. In reaction to the educated elites, the masses give rise to the Second Religiousness, which manifests as deeply suspicious of academia and science.
The Second Religiousness appears as a harbinger of the decline of mature Civilization into an ahistorical state. The Second Religiousness occurs concurrently with Caesarism, the final political constitution of Late Civilization. Both the Second Religiousness and Caesarism demonstrate the lack of youthful strength or creativity that the Early Culture once possessed. The Second Religiousness is simply a rehashing of the original religious trend of the Culture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decl...


Civilizational Model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spengler...
https://ojs.lib.byu.edu/spc/index.php...

China ------------------------------------------

Warring States Period 战国时代
decline of the Aristocracy and rise of mass, technology and number in warfare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warring_...

Shi Huangdi 秦始皇
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_...

Burning of books and burying of scholars 焚书坑儒
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_...

Weapon Technology and Mass
http://suite101.com/article/chinese-w...

Egypt ------------------------------------------

New Kingdom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fvJ9q...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVdPSK...

Three funerary papyri from Thebes: New evidence on
scribal and funerary practice in the Late Period
http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/Back...

Minoan Civilization part of Egypt
"Hyksos"
http://bsa.academia.edu/judithweingar......

Weapon Technology and Mass
http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/w...


Greco-Roman ------------------------------------------

Mass and Technology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punic_Wars

Augustus Fertility Laws
http://www.womenintheancientworld.com...

Indian -----------------------------------------------------

Review of Spengler on India
http://www.srikanta-sastri.org/#/o-sp...

Ashoka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_...

Edicts
http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/edi...

Laws of Manu
http://san.beck.org/EC10-Social.html

Mahajanapada "16 Republics"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahajana...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janapada

King Porus and Alexander the Great
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Porus



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