Oswald Spengler and the Destruction of Intelligence - Matt Raphael Johnson
Channel: Yanni McQueen
Date: 2020-05-12

Spengler cannot be summarized in an hour. Therefore, we concentrate on one important element of his thought, that around which all other elements revolve: the distinction between culture and civilization.

Culture is the organic state; the natural life. Civilization is the decay of that state into formalism and quantity. Authority turns into power.

In thought, this is manifest in the over-formalization of the intellect and the rise of the mass-intellectual. This intellectual is not a scholar, he's an actor in a role. He's the pseudo-intellectual

This lecture will briefly discuss Spengler in relation to the mass-intellectual and the means to tell the phoney from the legitimate scholar.

It is an unpleasant excursion into the world of fakery and fraud.

Presented by Matt Johnson