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The Western world or the West is a term referring to different nations, depending on the context, most often including at least part of Europe. There are many accepted definitions about what they all have in common. The Western world is also known as the Occident (from Latin: occidens "sunset, West", as contrasted with its pendant the Orient).
The concept of the Western part of the earth has its roots in Greco-Roman civilization in Europe, and the advent of Christianity. In the modern era, Western culture has been heavily influenced by the traditions of the Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, Age of Enlightenment—and shaped by the expansive colonialism of the 15th-20th centuries. Before the Cold War era, the traditional Western viewpoint identified Western Civilization with the Western Christian (Catholic-Protestant) countries and culture. Its political usage was temporarily changed by the antagonism during the Cold War in the mid-to-late 20th Century (1947–1991).
The term originally had a literal geographic meaning. It contrasted Europe with the linked cultures and civilizations of the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the remote Far East, which early-modern Europeans saw as the East. Today this has little geographic relevance since the concept of the West has been expanded to include the former European colonies in the Americas, Russian Northern Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. In the contemporary cultural meaning, the phrase "Western world" includes Europe, as well as many countries of European colonial origin with substantial European ancestral populations in the Americas and Oceania.
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German historian and philosopher of history whose interests included mathematics, science, and art. He is best known for his book The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), published in 1918 and 1922, covering all of world history. Spengler's civilization model postulates that any civilization is a superorganism with a limited and predictable lifespan.
He wrote extensively throughout World War I and the interwar period, and supported German hegemony in Europe. His other writings made little impact outside Germany. In 1920 Spengler produced Prussiandom and Socialism (Preußentum und Sozialismus), which argued for an organic, nationalist brand of non-Marxist socialism and authoritarianism. Some Nazis, including Joseph Goebbels, saw Spengler as an intellectual precursor, but he was ultimately ostracized by the Nazis in 1933 for his pessimism about the future of Germany and Europe, his refusal to support Nazi ideas of racial superiority, and his critical work The Hour of Decision.
Music video by Francesco Gabbani performing Occidentali's Karma. BMG Rights Management (Italy) s.r.l. http://vevo.ly/yw0909 Director: Gabriele Lucchetti Editing: Nicola Bruschi Production:BluzzMedia D.O.P and Camera : Vassili Spiropoulos Gimbal operator: Alex Torres Focus puller: Emanuela Piazza Ass. Camera operator: Andrea Camozzi Make UP: Piero Marsiglio Dancer: Filippo Ranaldi
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Voici la vidéo de la chaîne du nom même de Oswald Spengler traduite de l'anglais. Je remercie le créateur pour m'avoir procurer les images et les sons nécessaires à la traduction de cette vidéo. Chaîne Oswald Spengler : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIfnKm98q78j2ZNcfSQhhCQ Les Idéaux Modernes de Faust L'Empereur récompense Faust de ses services rendus, incluant l'introduction de la monnaie papier, avec ses penchants inflationnistes et sa propension à faire des courtiers des hommes riches. Faust obtient le privilège de gagner du terrain sur la mère. L'économie monétaire facilitée par Faust rend possible une croissance économique promettant toujours plus de prospérité. Goethe comprend la fascination d'une économie monétaire prospérant sans relâche. Il ne nous dit pas où la limite de ce...
NOW AVAILABLE FOR LISTENING IN 720 HD. A rather interesting instrumental by The Shanghai Restoration Project. You can find this and other great tracks on the "Day - Night (Instrumentals)" album. Enjoy!
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Mercy me, the night is long.
Take my pen, to write you this song.
Lord: is it harder to carry on,
or to know when you are done?
All my life, I've felt as though
I'm inside a beautiful memory,
replaying
with the sound turned down low.
Long-life, show your face.
Slow-heart, curb your taste.
Smoke me out of my hiding place.
Long-life, state your case.
What in the world are we waiting for--
building glowing cities along the shore,
where the wind batters in,
baiting my kin like a matador?
So much value, placed upon
what lies just beyond our plans:
waving my handkerchief,
running along, till the end of the sand.
Long-life, speak your name.
I'm so tired of the guessing game.
But, something is moving,
just out of frame:
Slow-heart,
brace and aim.
Breaching slowly, across the sea,
one mast--
a flash, like the stinger of a bee--
to take you away,
a swarming fleet is gonna take you
from me.
The universe is getting loose:
sodden spread,
from some leaden disuse,
rushing, unhinged,
toward diminishing lights,
like a headless caboose.
I'll wait for you,
alongside the ocean,
and make do
with my no-skin.
But then, Long-life,
will you let me in?
And then, Slow-heart,
are you gonna know him?
Long-life, speak your name.
I wait, while I decry the wait.
And when I die, may I relate:
Slow heart, congregate.
To leave your home, and your family,
for some distortion of property?
Well, darling, I can't go.
But you may stay