The thoughts of "Spengler" aka David P. Goldman as extracted from Asia Times Online :: The Complete Spengler Via Thoughts and Ideas
Spengler's Universal Law #1: A man or a nation at the brink of death does not have a "rational self-interest."
Spengler's Universal Law #2: When the nations of the world see their demise not as a distant prospect over the horizon, but as a foreseeable outcome, they perish of despair.
Spengler's Universal Law #3: Contrary to what you may have heard from the sociologists, the human mortality rate is still 100 percent.
Spengler's Universal Law #4: The history of the world is the history of mankind's search for immortality.
Spengler's Universal Law #5: Humankind cannot bear mortality without the hope of immortality.
Spengler's Universal Law #6 (courtesy of Warren Buffett): You don't know who's naked until the tide goes out.
Spengler's Universal Law #7: Political models are like automobile models: you can't have them unless you can pay for them.
Spengler's Universal Law #8: Wars are won by destroying the enemy's will to fight. A nation is never really beaten until it sells its women.
Spengler's Universal Law #9: A country isn't beaten until it sells its women, but it's damned when its women sell themselves.
Spengler's Universal Law #10: There's a world of difference between a lunatic and a lunatic who has won the lottery.
Spengler's Universal Law #11: At all times and in all places, the men and women of every culture deserve each other.
Spengler's Universal Law #12: Nothing is more dangerous than a civilization that has only just discovered it is dying.
Spengler's Universal Law #13: Across epochs and culture, blood has flown in inverse proportion to the hope of victory.
Spengler's Universal Law #14: Stick around long enough, and you turn into a theme park.
Spengler's Universal Law #15: When we worship ourselves, eventually we become the god that failed.
Spengler's Universal Law #16: Small civilizations perish for any number of reasons, but great civilizations die only when they no longer want to live.
Spengler's Universal Law #17: If you stay in the same place and do the same thing long enough, some empire eventually will overrun you.
Spengler's Universal Law #18: Maybe we would be better off if we never had been born, but who has such luck? Not one in a thousand.
Spengler's Universal Law #19: Pagan faith, however powerful, turns into Stygian nihilism when disappointed.
Spengler's Universal Law #20: Democracy only gives people the kind of government they deserve.
Spengler's Universal Law #21: If you believe in yourself, you're probably whoring after strange gods.
Spengler's Universal Law #22: Optimism is cowardice, at least when the subject is Muslim democracy.
Spengler's Universal Law #23: The best thing you can do for zombie cultures is, don't be one of them.
HT: Happy Acres
Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 9, 2014 5:50 PMWOW! So far I have only read the article #5 links to. This is what needs to be out where the average fool can read it. We are truly in the cross hairs of total oblivion/destruction. And the 'great leader' is behind the cross hairs.
Posted by: Terry at January 9, 2014 1:24 PMIf the shoe fits, .... the feet of Americans should be very comfortable.
Posted by: Denny at January 9, 2014 2:55 PMLike the pictures you put with the thoughts.
Makes me think of the Burma Shave signs.
Posted by: chasmatic at January 9, 2014 6:20 PM"Spengler" is well worth reading.
Posted by: Scott M at January 10, 2014 7:19 PMSpengler is way overwrought. And overrated.
Posted by: Eric Blair at January 10, 2014 7:24 PMNice. Clever. Anyone have a comparable list of his predictions on iran?
Posted by: ErisGuy at January 11, 2014 3:00 AMGood Idea,ErisGuy. How about working one up?
Posted by: vanderleun at January 11, 2014 9:07 AMDon't cross the streams.
Posted by: C. Felix at January 15, 2014 3:35 PM
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