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    This document discusses the organic and cultural nature of high civilizations. It asserts that civilizations like Western civilization are living organisms with life cycles of birth, growth, maturity, decline and death. It argues that rationalism and materialism view history and culture in linear and progressive terms, whereas an organic view understands each culture as having an individual soul and destiny rather than being shaped by reason or causality. It claims this organic view more accurately understands living things and sees other cultures not as things to exploit but as individuals with their own significance.

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    This document discusses the organic and cultural nature of high civilizations. It asserts that civilizations like Western civilization are living organisms with life cycles of birth, growth, maturity, decline and death. It argues that rationalism and materialism view history and culture in linear and progressive terms, whereas an organic view understands each culture as having an individual soul and destiny rather than being shaped by reason or causality. It claims this organic view more accurately understands living things and sees other cultures not as things to exploit but as individuals with their own significance.

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    This document discusses the organic and cultural nature of high civilizations. It asserts that civilizations like Western civilization are living organisms with life cycles of birth, growth, maturity, decline and death. It argues that rationalism and materialism view history and culture in linear and progressive terms, whereas an organic view understands each culture as having an individual soul and destiny rather than being shaped by reason or causality. It claims this organic view more accurately understands living things and sees other cultures not as things to exploit but as individuals with their own significance.

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    IMPERIUM

    Foreword

    this book marks the end of rationalismHenceforth there will be no


    discussion of action in terms of abstract thought 9

    The word Europe changes its meaning: from now it means the Western
    Civilization, the organic unity which created as phases of its life the nation-
    ideas of Spain, Italy, France, England and Germany. These former nations
    are all dead; the era of political nationalism has passed. This has not
    happened through logical necessity, but through organic advance of the
    History of the West. It is this organic necessity which is the source of our
    imperative, and of the integration of Europe.9

    No trade and banking, not importing and exporting, but Heroism alone can
    liberate that integrated soul of Europe which lies under the financial trickery
    or retarders, the petty-stateism of party politicians, and the occupying
    armies of extra-european forces 10

    Did you think it was over? Do you think that your misery and shame will
    remain securely forever on a world-stage which has seen true heroes upon
    it? In the war which you let loos, you taught men how to die, and thereby
    you have freed a spirit which will engulf you next, the Spirit of Heroism and
    Discipline. There is no currency that can buy this spirit, but it can overcame
    any currency 11

    -economy-

    Outside these two areas (Egypt and Babylonian), the rest of the earth has
    remained unchanged. The human bands are distinguishable from herding-
    animals only by a primitive culture, and a more intricate economy.
    Otherwise their existence-forms are devoid of significance. The primitive
    cultures are the sole thing existing above the plane of economics, in that
    they attribute symbolic significance to natural occurrences and human
    conduct. 18

    -enemy-

    Each culture-soul is stamped with individuality; from the others it takes


    nothing, and to them it gives nothing. Whatever is on its frontiers is the
    enemy, whether primitive or culture-populations. They all are barbarians,
    heathens, to the proper culture, and no understanding passes between
    them. We saw the Western peoples prove the life worthiness of the
    European culture by their crusades against the highly civilized Saracens,
    Moors, and Turks. We saw the Germanic populations in the east and their
    visigothic brothers in the south push the barbarian Slavs and the civilized
    Moors continually back during centuries. We saw Western ships and Western
    armies make the whole world into the object of booty for the west. These
    were the relations of the west to that and those outside. 20

    -Rationalism- economy vs faith-traditionalism (Civilization vs culture)

    Civilizations, the life of the material, the external, of power, giant


    economies, armies, and fleets, of great numbers and colossal technics, over
    Culture, the inner life of religion, philosophy, arts, domination of the external
    life of politics of the beast of prey in man, feelin of cultural unity. It is the
    victory of Rationalism, Money and the great city over the traditions of
    religion and authority, of Intellect over Instinct. 21

    (((((((There is an organic nature in the high cultures))))) Chapter III of


    perspective

    -Organic culture

    Since a Culture is organic, it has an individuality, and a soul. () It has a


    destiny, like all organism,. It has a period of gestation, and a birth time. It
    has a growth, a maturity, fulfillment, a down going, and a death. Because it
    has a soul, all of its manifestations will be impressed by the same spiritual
    stamp, just as each mans life is the creation of his own individuality.
    Because it has a soul, this particular culture can never come again after it
    has passed. Like the nations it creates to express phases of its own life.
    There will never be another Indian culture, Aztec- Mayan culture, Classical
    culture, or Western culture, any more that there will be a second Spartan
    nation, Roman nation, French or English nation. Since a cultre is organic, it
    has a life-span 22- 23

    (((((this is a different interpretation of the lineal and progress history that


    have liberalism and communism. The last one pretends, since its vision,
    wipe out with the real multiculturalism because wants to homogenizer the
    individuals in homo economicus, in other words, in animal laborans)))

    -(Destiny-organic - will/ causality- inorganic-reason)

    Destiny is the hallmark of everything living. Destiny-thinking is the type of


    thought which understands living, and it is the only kind which does. The
    other method of human thought is that of casuality. This method is inwardly
    compulsory in dealing with inorganic problems of technics, mechanics,
    engineering, systematic natural philosophy. It finds the limits of its efficacy
    there, however, and is grotesque when applied to life.

    The destiny-idea is the central motive of organic thinking. If aims at


    subjugation of things to understanding; it wishes to name everything, to
    make outlines distintic, and then to link phenomena together by
    classification and causal linkage. Kant is the height of this type of thinking,
    and to this side of western philosophy belong also Hume, Bacon,
    Schopenhauer, Hamilton, Spencer, Mill, Bentham, Locke, Holbach,
    Descartes. TO the organic side belong Macchiavelli, Vico, Montaigne,
    Leibniz, Lichtenberg, Pascal, Hobbes, Goethe, Hegel, Carlyle, Nietzsche and
    Spengler. 23-24

    (((((A political interpretation have implicity an history, being, and world


    interpretation. And liberalism with communism, share a materialism
    interpretation of being, a lineal and progress of history)))

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