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Unlocked: Myth of the Month 8: "The West"

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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'Spengler's Myth'

"Spengler clearly is trying to put together a myth, you know. And his myth isn't necessarily entirely false," he says. "Just to lump together the mediaeval western world with the modern and not to see the tremendous upheavals of thought that had to lead the way to modern thinking... it's just very poor history."

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