To Infinity and Beyond (Our Obsession with Infinite Progress)

Eddie Ejjbair
3 min readMay 15, 2024

Oswald Spengler, the author of The Decline of the West, says that our Culture is defined by its belief in the infinite — a concept he believes is completely foreign to the Classical way of thinking. This belief, he argues, affects almost every aspect of our Culture, particularly its relationship with time. Unlike almost every other Culture to have existed, we don’t believe that…

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Eddie Ejjbair

‘Gradually it’s become clear to me what every great philosophy has been: a personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir’