And the real Spengler is. . .

I was introduced to Spengler by CO editorial board member, David. I've published Spengler's Asian Times pieces here regularly and he even coined one of my favorite phrases, "Inbred products of Ivy League puppy mills," to describe the idiot "experts" behind the current financial crisis.
Spengler was a pseudonym used for reasons explained here:
"Why raise these issues under a pseudonym? There is a simple answer, and a less simple one. To inform a culture that it is going to die does not necessarily win friends, and what I needed to say would be hurtful to many readers. I needed to tell the Europeans that their post-national, secular dystopia was a death-trap whence no-one would get out alive.
I needed to tell the Muslims that nothing would alleviate the unbearable sense of humiliation and loss that globalization inflicted on a civilization that once had pretensions to world dominance. I needed to tell Asians that materialism leads only to despair. And I needed to tell the Americans that their smugness would be their undoing.
In this world of accelerated mortality, in which the prospect of national extinction hung visibly over most of the peoples of the world, Jew-hatred was stripped of its mask, and revealed as the jealousy of the merely undead toward living Israel. And it was not hard to show that the remnants of the tribal world lurking under the cover of Islam were not living, but only undead, incapable of withstanding the onslaught of modernity, throwing a tantrum against their inevitable end."
The mask is lifted here and, appropriately, I have David to thank for the link.
Sadly it appears that he will be publishing less frequently.



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