On 10.10.2024, the “Oswald Spengler Society” awarded its 2024 prize to the X-accounts

 

"Culture Critic"

and

"Thinking West".

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Oswald Spengler was a visionaire - also in describing the future of mass media and high technology. Though he could not foresee the development of personal computers, smartphones or artificial intelligence, he had a keen sense for the disruptive nature of technology in an era of late-bourgeois capitalism, of financial oligarchy and of impending Cesarism. But he was also aware that technology was not a choice, but a fate for all civilisations, especially the "Faustian" West. This is why the Spengler Society has decided to award its 2024 prize to two X-accounts, which have not only gone to great efforts in order to celebrate and popularise once again the great achievements of Western civilisation, but which also regularly reflect on the nature of technology and the self-destructive tendences of "woke" modernity.

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Programme:

 

David Engels: Spengler and Twitter

Gerd Morgenthaler: Laudatio

Robert Jackson: The Downfall of the West and Oswald Spengler  

Max Otte: Spengler and Modern Mass Media

Presentation of Awards

Culture Critic: Acceptance Speech

Thinking West: Acceptance Speech​