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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (50448)5/25/2009 2:51:31 PM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (2) of 217518
 
Go get some culture. Read Oswald Spengler. His description of the Faustian civilization is where the populace constantly strives for the unattainable—making the western man a proud but tragic figure, for while he strives and creates he secretly knows the actual goal will never be reached.

The book includes the idea of Muslims, Jews and Christians, as well as their Persian and Semitic forebears, being Magian, Mediterranean civilizations of the antiquity such as Ancient Greece and Rome being Apollonian, and the modern Westerners being Faustian, and according to its theories we are now living in the winter time of the Faustian civilization.
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