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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