(love it. courtesy of don finn )
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-14 03:15:00 UTC
(love it. courtesy of don finn )
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-14 03:15:00 UTC
“I pray the god, deliver us unto nobility, and save us from lesser people.”
Some of us love nobility. It is the most natural order for man. Which is why nearly all of our history is composed of it.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-14 03:14:00 UTC
( Silly thing: back in my 20’s and 30’s, I found loading cartridges (bullets) very ‘mindful’ and it made me feel calm, peaceful and ‘whole’. In no small part because it’s dangerous, procedural, and ritualistic, and so your mind cannot wander. In retrospect loading is a very different kind of tea ceremony. Which is pretty humorous. )
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-14 03:12:00 UTC
THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN EGALITARIANISM
As a member of the upper classes I hold by the principle of noblesse oblige: every position on the team, in the field, in the economy, in the army is dependent upon every other. But this not an air. It is continuation of tradition of martial rank.
Rank is necessary for coordination and skill, so that together we may resist or defeat those with less coordination and skill – but otherwise we are all brothers in arms.
This is the origin of western egalitarianism: voluntary organization of the militia as our means of defense. Of part time soldiers, and professional warriors. And we preserved this order in daily life. We preserved our ranks in daily life. We preserved our brotherhood in daily life. This is the meaning of ‘the west’.
The king and pawn fulfill different needs but the pawn cannot organize without the king, and the king cannot concentrate force without the pawn.
The martial is instinctual in many of us. It has been with us for millennia. It is in our genes. The urban is in many of them, and the steppe and desert in others. The woman carries with her impulsive pragmatism necessary of mothers, and her history as breeding herd for male bands.
Only we built the west out of truth, testimony, rank, and merit. Only we can save the west with truth, testimony, rank and merit.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-14 03:09:00 UTC
WILL YOU INSURE YOUR BROTHERS?
Think of it this way.
When will you insure your brothers? Is that insurance not the origin of property rights? Is that insurance not the origin of the brotherhood of soldiers? Is not all our civilization built upon our mutual insurance of one another?
Our men need confidence that we will insure one another. That we take the oath and will not break the oath. Then they need a few examples.
There are enough of us to rebuild the west. But we must understand that there is no one to save us but ourselves. We either draw arms and insure one another or we die like the rest as victims of the hordes.
It is the confidence in one another that we must build.
Then we must make it so expensive for our oppressors both home and abroad to violate our property, that they choose some alternative venue for their mischief. We will do that by the most expensive cost we can put upon them: Loss, Suffering, Death.
SInce we act on behalf of our kith and kin, then we will punish the kith and kin of those who violate our property. This means that if a man works against us, he risks his life, his kin, his home, and his relations.
No mercy. We insure one another so that families restrain one another.
Civilization has never been so frail.
They have no choice – if we have the will.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-14 02:52:00 UTC
NEVER BEND THE KNEE INVOLUNTARILY – EVER.
—“The thing I hate about cops is it really grates having to bend the knee to those who are, by most measures, my inferiors.”—- Eli Harman
Yeah. I’ve actually taken to using “Who do you think you’re talking to soldier?” in a demanding paternal voice to anyone in uniform. Strange how well it works. And in public I’m testing “I am a gentleman, and you will treat me as such.” This leaves the implied ‘or else’. And in groups “I am aristocracy. And I will tolerate this behavior.”
Always good to let the little people know who is in charge.
Works much better when you’re over 50. But I didn’t realize how often I was doing it when I was younger.
Authority is an air. It is not cultivated so much as constructed. Not contrived so much as instinct. Not learned so much as practiced.
The world needs us. When we abandon our paternalism we leave the lesser people to the victimization of the lower life forms.
**Every man a noble, every man a judge, every man a sheriff, every man a warrior, every man a craftsman.**
***It is through individual intolerance for barbarism that we build our great civilization.***
One of my first oaths is:
“Aristocracy May Not Be Bound”. –I agree to the one law, the moral law of property. I do not agree to any other. And any man who binds me shall die by my hand or the hand of my brothers. And I swear to all my brothers that any man who binds my brother shall die by my hand or the hand of my brothers.—
This is an modern version of the initiatic brotherhood of soldiers – which appears to be older than our memories, but no less than 3500 years old.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-14 02:46:00 UTC
( I didn’t realize that evangelicals considered ‘piety’ a dirty word. They offer humility – sovereignty of all, not piety – submission. )
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-14 02:31:00 UTC
(I see what the germans do now. they create stoicism through duty and craftsmanship. fuk. it’s that simple.)
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-14 02:31:00 UTC
Eli at his best. Note how he constructs full accounting of costs.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-13 23:03:00 UTC
[A]nother Pandora’s Box
—“Here’s the dirty secret of women working — they can do what they want but here ya go — when they started entering the work force in mass, the ghouls of society took over raising the kids and installing Mental Malware into their mush brains. Stress was raised in the house, since both partners were dead ass tired at the end of the day, oh and with all that extra income, they first just spent more of it, then the government figured out they could just tax the surplus — and now we went from it being a choice for women to work to being a requirement — and collectively have the same purchasing power they did before when only the husband worked.”— James Santagata