Re: praxeology of world change

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, richardsonofnc wrote:

> >From David Richardson, ISCSC
> 
> 
> Gert Kohler's idea of modern praxis are upbeat and so, too, are most of 
>the opinions
> aired at WSN.   The attitude was utterly different a century ago +/-.   I 
>mention some 
> pessimists:  Arthur de Gobineau, Jacob Burckhardt, Friedrich Nietzshe, 
>Henry and Brooke Adams, W.E.B. Du Bois, Oswald Spengler and his most 
>powerful admirers, Adolph Hitler and his retinue, Nietzsche soeur and her 
>prestigious library, The Frankfort School and Herbert Marcuse, Sartre, 
>Foucault, Fanon, Horkheimer and Adorno, Norman Mailer, and many other 
>famed authors.  They took the successes of colonialism too seriously.  
>Mommsen (Nobel prize, 1805) probably chose Rome as his theme and was 
> celebrated partly for the same reason: the final solution seemed to be 
>empire.   Hitler was both a monster and an idealist: to produce Spengler's 
>final work of creativity, a totalitarian empire (which is the form of 
>empire Spengler preferred).
> 
> Who looks to empire, today?

No one, which is why for my money, it's the most likely scenario...

-- 
Boris Stremlin
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