“I see world-history as a picture of endless formations and transformations, of the marvellous waxing and waning of organic forms.”—Oswald Spengler, Decline of the West

  “… Of the marvellous waxing and waning of organic forms.” Beautifully put, Mr. Spengler. 

  Just by the title of his work, The Decline of the West, you can get the sense that the great overriding theme to this monumental work is the waning of the organic form that is and has been Western Civilization. 

  Now the ‘waning’ part is a not altogether uncommon outlook. Thinkers, philosophers and pundits have been weighing in on its symptoms, causes and effects and ways it can be avoided for a century now. A state of affairs that seems to be accelerating greatly as we lurch crazily into the twenty-first century. 

  But what was unique and frankly elevated Spengler to the first rank of largely unread Giants of the Human Spirit were those two last words: “organic forms.” 

  Human groups, communities, cultures and civilizations akin to ‘organic forms’ and therefore being born, growing, maturing, then declining, wilting if you will, towards senility and eventual death? That was never fully envisioned or laid out before. 

  But what those two last words, “organic forms,” also did was snatch his ‘morphology of history’ out of the clutches of the thinkers, pundits and philosophers—in other words the rationalists—and hand it over to the artists, the poets and the Shaman-Types. For they alone are uniquely qualified to experience its rich fecundity, its living essence and Truth. 

  It’s Life. 

  Anyway, this post is a tribute to the first YouTube video that begins to do real justice to Spengler’s stupendous poetic feat. Until now he has been ‘tackled’ by philosophy major types and dismissive junior historians, that is to say, thinkers. 

  You want a glimpse into what’s in store for our Western Civilization? Watch Joomi Kim’s YouTube video When the West lost its soul: Spengler’s Decline of the West!

  Hint: pay careful attention to the part about the coming advent of Caesarism!

  Incongruously, Joomi’s a bookish looking little Asian gal railing in a subdued librarian tone against the decline in readers, the quality of writing and books today, the slackening of the will towards excellence in our Western culture and the collapse of morality in a world that has lost its way! 

  All I have to say is: “YOU GO GRL!!”

  Spengler would be surprised…

  And proud…!