• BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    Imagine people in the 21st century not stll having an 18th century view of politics? shocked-pikachu truely the west has fallen.

    And what the fuck is the “Faustian Western Tradition?” Some new meaningless fash buzz phrase? The fascist who wrote that piece calling midwesterns hobbits for lacking “a sense of imperial destiny” called Floridians “Faustian idividualists” or something. Did someone mention Faust in a Marvel movie or something?

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      100+ year old term actually. It’s a term created by fascist dipshit Oswald Spengler in his book Decline of the West. He outlined there are nine cultures, one of which is Western or ‘Faustian’. Spengler proposed that western white people have an insatiable urge to discover, create, and explore regardless of other concerns. Hence like Faust, who made a pact with the devil in the pursuit of knowledge. Also the Nazis loved this book.

      Also Spengler believed that western countries should stop building so many factories because eventually non-white people would also figure out how to build factories and then weaponize their economies against the west.

      lol