The Oswald Spengler Society
for the Study of Humanity and World History
Award of the "Oswald Spengler Prize" to "Culture Critic" & "Thinking West"
Oswald Spengler and the Modern Mass Media
Award of the 2024 "Oswald Spengler Prize"
10.10.2024, German Eifel
On 10.10.2024, the “Oswald Spengler Society” awarded its 2024 prize to the X-accounts
"Culture Critic"
and
"Thinking West".
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.
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