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NotPhil  ·  4290 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Spengler's Ominous Prophecy

    I don't see any evidence that different civilizations can be taken as wholly independent.

I think he's saying that each civilization has such a distinct world view that any elements it has taken from a previous or neighboring civilization get interpreted as meaning something so different that it makes no sense to say that one civilization "progresses" from another.