Spengler is presented as arguing that civilizations have life cycles like people: village, town, city, megacity, then death at the height of civilization.
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Spengler
Spengler is presented as arguing that civilizations have life cycles like people: village, town, city, megacity, then death at the height of civilization.
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"And the third theory is the idea of a civilizational life cycle. And this is proposed by a German philosopher, scholar, named Oswald Spangler...."
"Okay? You start off, so the Romans, right? The Qing Dynasty. You start off in a village. Then, if you're successful in the village,..."
"...Okay? And that's why we have these trends. And what Oswald Spengler says is, there's nothing anyone can do about this. It is a..."
"...is you can't actually stop the decline of empires. So Oswald Spengler, who is a German theoretician, he argues that we are human beings..."
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