Talk:Oswald Spengler

Quotes and socks

As related to my above posts, I've made some drastic reverts of the article to an older version. Looking at the history it appears these mere made by a now-blocked user, and slipped through the cracks. Instead of using tediously excessive pull quotes to indicate a narrative, the article should summarize reliable sources. Spengler is not a reliable source for his own modern legacy, and that's really all that Wikipedia is concerned with. There may have been some positive edits lost in the revert, but it's difficult to sort out the good from the bad here, unfortunately. Grayfell (talk) 07:16, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Spengler and Mussolini

". Instead, he saw his ideal realised in Benito Mussolini, the dictator of Fascist Italy. " I don't think this is correct (it is not sourced either), he said in Decline that his ideal was 18th century enlightened absolutism but he didn't think that was workable in the present and as I recall from his later books he discussed Mussolini as something of a precursor to the future Caesarism that he was predicting but not as by any means the perfected type. I get that an intro is inevitably going to be brief but I think that makes it sound like was a straightforward Fascist which I think mischaracterizes his ideology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyndane5 (talk • contribs) 00:21, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Rewriting the article

I'm going to completely rewrite this article in the coming weeks, as I did for the Conservative Revolution. See User:Azerty82/Spengler for the draft. Best regards, Azerty82 (talk) 14:27, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Edward von Salomon biography could use some help too! I tried but I'm an ingenue in this field.--FeralOink (talk) 15:13, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Oswald's brother

Born 8 months premature and lived 3 weeks? Miraculous, surely 2A01:CB1D:2E:3500:D85C:F309:D9AA:939F (talk) 10:10, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

I've removed the "8 months" line. Grayfell (talk) 04:53, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Ages of communities

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About the 'Spenglercy', term coined by Sigmund Freud in a dream, the 'Decay of West', and those who present the metaphor of development of societies as ages of humans: birth, childhood, adolescence, maturity, decrepitude, the Baske anthropologist Julio Caro Baroja, in his booklet: 'The myth of national character. Countergrain meditations' pointed about this imagery that all appealing to it considered their own times as times of degradation. Don Julio Caro remarked you can't request same performance from a young than from elderly. I'd say many writing are inquisitors, judges and hangman, all in one, searching for an opportunity to punish; or even worse, mimics or competitors of the Almighty in issuing rules. Blessings + — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.44.119.164 (talk) 15:53, 18 June 2022 (UTC) This talk page is not a forum for general discussion. Grayfell (talk) 04:55, 9 October 2022 (UTC)