Sobornost, Tamanous, and Ipsissimus

Ipsissimus -- an esoteric term for being most completely oneself -- is a concept that has been stuck in my mind lately. It led me somewhere interesting on a personal level, and later I realized it might also help make sense of a particular prediction about the future. To unpack it, though, we need an extremely abbreviated summary of Oswald Spengler's work and of the specific prediction in question.

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