It reminds me of the ‘Caesarism’ that Spengler spelled out so succinctly. In the end it all comes down to blood and money.
We are headed down the path he described in ‘Decline of the West’
Also, if anyone has read ‘Revolt of the Masses’ much of what Ortega y Gasset talked about is apparent.
‘... there is no culture where there are no standards to which our fellow-man can have recourse. There is no culture where there are no principles of legality to which to appeal. There is no culture where there is no acceptance of certain final intellectual positions to which a dispute may be referred. There is no culture where economic relations are not subject to a regulating principle to protect interests involved. There is no culture where aesthetic controversy does not recognize the necessity of justifying the work of art.
When all these things are lacking there is no culture; there is in the strictest sense of the word, barbarism. And let us not deceive ourselves, this is what is beginning to appear...’
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