Fatum Chaim

I posted Oswald Spengler’s private collection of sketches, hitherto unreleased. The link to the article is in the first reply to this post.

Due to the worsening quality of the discourse on this website, I wrote an article about the recent, growing Trans-Atlantic strains, tariffs, Venezuela, Iran, etc. It is part opinion piece and analysis. Link to the Substack post is in the first reply.

I conversed with ‘Liberator of the Occident’ about German Politics, Technics and other topics for almost an hour in a free flowing dialogue.

I posted Oswald Spengler’s private collection of sketches, hitherto unreleased. The link to the article is in the first reply to this post.

Goodbye. I won’t post on this platform for the near future (think 3-5 years). With my translation of Spengler’s diary, which I have just slaved over the last few days, finally done, I can leave with a good conscience of not having promised too much without delivering. (Yes, the translation of Spengler’s Heraclitus dissertation will also be released, but I will take my time with that.) I will probably be sparingly active on Substack, to post a translation here or there, or my own work, if I find the time. This account will stay up for the foreseeable future, as has been requested by some. I might return here every few months, for one post, to announce something but that is unlikely. I wish to leave you with one last quote: “Live in such a way that your life makes human life itself appear worthwhile. History will measure the value of your life by its striving and its deeds. The judgment is always passed by another.” ~ Oswald Spengler, Urfragen

I translated Oswald Spengler’s private diary, published—posthumously—in German under the title ‘Eis heauton’. I added context via my own notes, as is usual for my texts. “Since I am almost always alone - most of all in company - I instinctively think of a listener who is discerning and critical and for whom I have respect. It is for him that this is told here.” ~ Oswald Spengler The link to the article is in the first reply to this post.

Been there so many times I lost count. The basement was supposed to hold the busts of still living great Germans, who upon their death would be carried, in the pomp of a great procedure up to their final resting place. It was supposed to mimic ancient Egyptian architecture, unfortunately, it was never completed. The ceiling of the Walhalla is where my profile banner is from.

Questions about the nature of consciousness, everyone! How riveting and intellectually adventurous—surely these are the questions of importance in 2025.

Every wrong, every infringement that is levied against a population or a singular individual is implicitly and indirectly agreed with and approved of by he who is being wronged, if resistance is found to be lacking, or non-existent at all. A population and an individual can be beaten into submission, psyoped into it, or simply be taken to that due to the nature of their ethos. Nevertheless and irregardless of the reason for the servitude exemplified by individuals and peoples from time to time, with a simple ‘No’ mountains can be moved. In the words of Étienne de La Boétie: “From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free.”

“To me this whole intellectual present appears like an ugly December landscape: dirt, snow, haze, cold, a few crows sulking on bare branches. I envy the unassuming folk who today fancy themselves art and literature in concerts, theater, journals, exhibitions. Such things have long since ceased to exist.” ~ Oswald Spengler, Eis Heauton - his soon-to-be-translated diary

Honesty is a virtue that can only be fully appreciated in its totality, when it encompasses cadence, prose, vocabulary, physical dimensions, etc.

You have to recognize when people are lying to you. They often pretend to be stupider than they actually are. Podcasters, comedians, and media personnel do this. Tucker Carlson, Theo Von do this. Likely more, whose names are irrelevant. By pretending they are stupid and asking their stupid, innocent questions, they are employing an insidious tactic of manipulative origin. People do this everywhere, in your life as in the media.

The doors are wide open: You just have to — Go-Out.

@TennisonEddie “An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress.” ~Yeats

The beauty of becoming an old man man is that you become invisible. You can wear anything you want, you can cut your hair or not cut your hair. Trim your mustache or just let it grow wild. Nobody notices and nobody cares. You're incognito and you're not coming back.

@BorealBaron @JacobL1994_ The whole world is Western and operates under occidental auspices.

“To see myself sub specie aeternitatis—very small, questionable. Misunderstood. Incomprehensible. I could have become a painter, a musician.” ~ Oswald Spengler, Eis Heauton - his soon-to-be-translated diary

@Athanasius_45 There are two inscriptions:

@Machine_Civ I'll absolutely have to steal that inscription for later.

Plutarch, The Parallel Lives: The Life of Antony, on Timon of Athens. Very funny.

“I have a small building lot, men of Athens, and a fig-tree is growing in it, from which many of my fellow citizens have already hanged themselves. Accordingly, as I intend to build a house there, I wanted to give public notice to that effect, in order that all of you who desire to do so may hang yourselves before the fig-tree is cut down.” ~ Timon