mathematics and science abandoning visual relations and 
constructions for a nonvisual theory of relations and functions, 
Spengler pronounced the demise of the West.

     Had Spengler taken the time to discover the origins of 
both number and Euclidean space in the psychological effects 
of the phonetic alphabet, The Decline of the West  might never 
have been written. That work is based on the assumption that 
classical man, Apollonian man, was not the product of a 
technological bias in Greek culture (namely, the early impact of 
literacy on a tribal society), but rather the result of a special 
tremor in the soul stuff that embosomed the Greek world. This 
is a striking instance of how easily men of any one particular 
culture will panic when some familiar pattern or landmark gets 
smudged or shifted because of the indirect pressure of new 
media. Spengler, as much as Hitler, had derived from radio a