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When Milosevic refused to concede defeat to opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica, Otpor's example of disciplined nonviolence, along with its masses of activists, were crucial in convincing Serbia's security forces to defy Milosevic's orders to shoot at the protesters. On Oct. 7, the embattled president resigned. The unthinkable had happened.
2010年7月9日 · Bitchun Society. = "Bitchun Society" is the dominant Earth culture in which rejuvenation and body-enhancement have made death obsolete, material goods are no longer scarce, and everyone is granted basic rights that in our present age are mostly considered luxuries. [1] Together with the Whuffie reputation currency, features in Cory Doctorow's ...
Description. Highlights. • The emergence of export markets for high-value fisheries tends to lead to collapse. • We examine three case studies of resistance to the high-value seafood trade. • Despite short-term financial incentives, fishing communities rejected export markets.
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"Decline belonged to a massive body of literature which took shape between the first and second world wars on the 'Crisis of Civilization', and which includes, among others, works like Stoddard's The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920), Guenon's The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), Freud's Civilization and its Discontents (1...
"A Culture is born in the moment when a great Soul awakens .. and detaches itself: a form for the formless .. It blooms on the soil of an exactly definable landscape, to which plant-wise it remains bound. It dies when this souls has actualized the full sum of its possibilities. ... The aim once attained, .. the Culture suddenly hardens, it mortifie...
1. From the Brittannica: "Der Untergang is a study in the philosophy of history. Spengler contended that because most civilizations must pass through a life cycle, not only can the historian reconstruct the past but he can predict “the spiritual forms, duration, rhythm, meaning and product of the still unaccomplished stages of our Western history.”...
Paul Klingsnorth: "Spengler's book The Decline of the West has been sitting on my shelf for years, and I've been putting off reading it. Like its author, it has an intimidating aura. But as spring came I finally sat down with it. Published in 1918, the book - or rather the first of its two volumes - catapulted its author, a previously obscure priva...
JOSÉ LUÍS GARCIA: "The key to Spengler's philosophical anthropology and accompanying philosophy of history is his use of the Faustian legend in popular German literature to interpret modern technology. According to him, humans are the only predators able to select and design weapons for attacking nature and each other. At some point around the tent...
- Excerpt from Vol. I; Chapter IV. Part II. Section VI. (not the full text of the section, but selected phrases, occasionally slightly adapted for smoother sentences - mb) Oswald Spengler: "It is the primitive feeling of care which dominates the physiognomy of the Western ("as that of the Egyptians ... and the Chinese") .. It creates the symbolism of the erotic which represents the flowing on of endless life. (p. 102) Classical man conceived only the here and now: The domestic religion of Rom...
Source: Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, Vol. 2; Chapter IV: Cities and People; Section V, pp. 69-74 Summary transcription based on excerpted text, by Michel Bauwens. Osward Spengler: “The Stone Colossus, ‘Cosmopolis', stands at the end of the life course of every great Culture.” (p. 68) The Culture Man, whom the land has spiritually formed, is seized … by his own creation, the City.” (p. 69) “The stony mass is the absolute City. These final cities are wholly intellect. ["the heart h...
Excerpts via ; from Vol. 2Full text versions online:2023年12月18日 · Nick Dyer-Whiteford: "The idea of batshit jobs is that there are some jobs that involve profound contradiction: They make workers participate in the destruction of the conditions of life in order to make a living. The most obvious examples of such work happens in fossil industries, but also aviation, car manufacture, industrial agriculture, the ...
2014年8月21日 · = a village-based institution of higher education and research for the support of mother-tongue scholars of Afrikan Indigenous knowledge. URL = More Information Video lecture by co-founder Dr. Paulo Wangoola at the University of Victoria, October 25th, 2013
2015年5月25日 · Description. Jean-Francois Noubel: "We name holomidal collective intelligence the new form of collective intelligence that emerges thanks to the Internet. Local and global, decentralized and distributed, agile, polymorphic, based on leadership, individuation, open source, integral wealth and mutualist economy, this young form of collective ...
