Spengler cannot be summarized in an hour. Therefore, we concentrate on one important element of his thought, that around which all other elements revolve: the distinction between culture and civilization.
Culture is the organic state; the natural life. Civilization is the decay of that state into formalism and quantity. Authority turns into power. In thought, this is manifest in the over-formalization of the intellect and the rise of the mass-intellectual. This intellectual is not a scholar, he's an actor in a role. He's the pseudo-intellectual.
This lecture will briefly discuss Spengler in relation to the mass-intellectual and the means to tell the phoney from the legitimate scholar. It is an unpleasant excursion into the world of fakery and fraud.
Presented by Matt Johnson
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