Hallo DT,
Ok, dicke Wälzer, aber vielleicht macht dich diese Blattseite neugierig
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/der-untergang-des-abendlandes-zweiter-band-5329/85
Das Kapitel endet mit einem Zitat von Seneca:
Ducunt fata volentem, nolentem trahunt. "Den Willigen führt, den Unwilligen treibt das Schicksal"
Eben: Amboss oder Hammer sein...

Wiki auf Englisch erklärt den Zusammenhang hervorragend:

==> Democracy, media, and money

Spengler asserts that democracy is simply the political weapon of money, and the media are the means through which money operates a democratic political system.[clarification needed] The thorough penetration of money's power throughout a society is yet another marker of the shift from Culture to Civilization.

Democracy and plutocracy are equivalent in Spengler's argument. The "tragic comedy of the world-improvers and freedom-teachers" is that they are simply assisting money to be more effective. The principles of equality, natural rights, universal suffrage, and freedom of the press are all disguises for class war (the bourgeois against the aristocracy). Freedom, to Spengler, is a negative concept, simply entailing the repudiation of any tradition. In reality, freedom of the press requires money, and entails ownership, thus serving money at the end. Suffrage involves electioneering, in which the donations rule the day. The ideologies espoused by candidates, whether Socialism or Liberalism, are set in motion by, and ultimately serve, only money. "Free" press does not spread free opinion—it generates opinion, Spengler maintains.

Spengler admits that in his era money has already won, in the form of democracy. But in destroying the old elements of the Culture, it prepares the way for the rise of a new and overpowering figure: the Caesar. Before such a leader, money collapses, and in the Imperial Age the politics of money fades away[clarification needed].

Spengler's analysis of democratic systems argues that even the use of one's own constitutional rights requires money, and that voting can only really work as designed in the absence of organized leadership working on the election process. As soon as the election process becomes organized by political leaders, to the extent that money allows, the vote ceases to be truly significant. It is no more than a recorded opinion of the masses on the organizations of government over which they possess no positive influence whatsoever.

Spengler notes that the greater the concentration of wealth in individuals, the more the fight for political power revolves around questions of money. One cannot even call this corruption or degeneracy, because this is in fact the necessary end of mature democratic systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West

Ich wurde wiedermal auf Sprengler aufmerksam, weil er in den Kommentaren bei Zerohedge erwähnt wurde:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-10/fourth-turning-summer-rage-and-total-eclipse-d...

MfG, Reffke

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