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Laudator Temporis Acti
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Laudator Temporis Acti is a personal blog at laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com about writing and culture. Since 2017, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on Oswald Spengler's intellectual life and ideas about civilisational rise and decline. The one comment only says the commenter will read Spengler and pushes back on a point.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Hmm. Guess I'll have to do some reading after all. > New civilizations emerging at the periphery... Well, they're unlikely to emerge within another's sphere, aren't they? Unless they're exceedingly civilised, civilisations behave like cuckoos to their neighbours. > A rise in strongmen or dictators Good point. I'll keep this in mind when reading Spengler, but as for two famous strongmen, I believe more parsimonious e…
Comment linking /2017/12/let-die-be-cast.html
on “Oswald Spengler – an intellectual life”Submitted Klejn's Commandments as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wine and Water as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Misplaced Modifier as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Abundance of Books (2007) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion