USA And The Future Of The World

[dhu]

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<b>Waving Goodbye to Hegemony - Parag Khanna
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<b>The Non-American World</b>

Karl Marx and Max Weber both chastised Far Eastern cultures for being despotic, agrarian and feudal, lacking the ingredients for organizational success. Oswald <b>Spengler saw it differently, arguing that mankind both lives and thinks in unique cultural systems, with Western ideals neither transferable nor relevant. Today the Asian landscape still features ancient civilizations </b>but also by far the most people and, by certain measures, the most money of any region in the world. With or without America, Asia is shaping the world’s destiny — and exposing the flaws of the grand narrative of Western civilization in the process.
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Spengler alongside marx was discussed on this very forum in the sanskrit thread.