—“the political events of 88-86 B.C.E. changed the course of Western philosophy in general, and Stoicism in particular, for the remainder of antiquity. At that time, philosophers were politically in charge at Athens, and made the crucial mistake of siding with Mithridates against Rome. The defeat of the King of Pontus, and consequently of Athens, spelled disaster for the latter and led to a diaspora of philosophers throughout the Mediterranean.”—
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-27 07:10:00 UTC
Simon Ström / Alexander Zavialov
You know that conversation we had recently where simon wrote a history of europeans and alexander confirmed it.
Can I ask you two to send me your versions of it.
I want to add something about that length in one spot.
Attributed to you, of course.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-26 11:07:00 UTC
We all carry our genes, methods of argument, and cultural strategy with us – and cannot escape them. One’s Metaphysics do not change.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-25 22:28:33 UTC
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In are theory and history we use “Fear of Vacuum” to describe primitive people’s need to fill white space with content. But the same principle applies to thoughts about the universe. The stoics would teach us and science would teach us not to fear the vacuum and fill it with nonsense and convince ourselves we are wise, but to train ourselves not to fear vacuums and consider them opportunities for learning.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-25 20:49:00 UTC
THE HIGH COST OF HIGH TRUST, HIGH RISK, HIGH VELOCITY, HIGH PROSPERITY
Knowledge (costs) > Virtues (costs) > Manners (costs) > Ethics (costs) > Morals (costs) > Norms (costs) > Duty and Service (costs) > Taxes (Cost)
We pay many costs to create a high trust civic order. People free ride by not paying those costs. People rebel by not paying costs and forcing others to pay them. People conduct a cold war by intentionally not paying costs and forcing others to pay them.
The west is unique because of our high trust, high velocity, culture. Not paying costs is a luxury those who pay those costs may or may not tolerate.
Marxism was an attempt to steal. Postmodernism is an attempt to destroy.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-25 19:33:00 UTC
SPENGLER: “ANGLOS ARE ESSENTIALLY VIKING PIRATES”
Spengler: Liberalism works for the English because they are essentially Viking pirates
—“England did away with the principle of the organized state, and put in its place the notion of the free private citizen.
The citizen demands permission to fight alone in the ruthless struggle for existence, for this is the only way he can satisfy his Viking instincts.
Buckle, Malthus, and Darwin later postulated that the basic essence of “society” was the naked struggle for existence. And they were absolutely right, at least as far as their own country and people were concerned.
To be sure, in modern England this principle operates in a highly refined and perfected fashion.
But evidence of a more rudimentary adherence to it can be found in the Icelandic sagas, where such behavior is obviously spontaneous and not borrowed from another culture.
The forces with which William the Conqueror took England in 1066 could be called a “society” of knightly adventurers, and English trading companies have subdued and expropriated entire countries—most recently, since 1390, the inland regions of South Africa. Gradually the entire English nation assumed the characteristics of a “society.”
The Old Norse instinct for piracy and clever trading has, in the end. influenced the Englishman’s attitude toward all of reality, including property, work, foreign peoples, and the weaker individuals and classes among his own people. The same instinct has also yielded political techniques that are extremely effective weapons in the struggle for mastery of the globe.
A concept complementary to that of “society” is the “private citizen.” He represents the sum of certain positive ethical qualities which like all great. ethical virtues are not acquired through training or education, but are borne in the blood and perfected after “passing through generation after generation.
The peculiarly English style of politics is essentially one that involves private citizens or groups of such individuals. This, and only this, is the very meaning of parliamentary government.
Cecil Rhodes was a private citizen who conquered foreign countries. The American billionaires are private citizens who rule foreign countries by means of an inferior class of professional politicians.
German liberalism, on the other hand, is ethically valueless. It merely says “No!” to the state, and is unable to justify its opposition by offering equally high-minded and vigorous positive- suggestions.”— Spengler
( via Rorik Svalbard )
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-25 18:39:00 UTC
Any man who disrespects the priesthood is justified in his skepticism. Any man who disrespects the martial monarchy and martial nobility, or the field marshal has no idea how difficult it is to hold those positions and the sacrifice that those positions demand, and how cheap the luxury of those positions, and how necessary the rewards in order to entice men into retaining them.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-25 09:17:00 UTC
Strong people create good times
Good times create weak people
Weak people create bad times
Bad times create strong people
(reminded once again by Angela Michelle Joy Stahlfest-Moller)
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-25 06:29:00 UTC
V – Aryan
Lo there, do I see my father
Lo there, do I see my mother and my brothers and my sisters
Lo there, do I see the line of my people back to the beginning
Lo there, they do make a feast
Lo there, does their armor shine in the sun
They sing joyously among the oak trees
Where the grass is tall and green
Lo, they do call to me
They bid me take my place among them
In the halls of Heaven
Where the brave may live forever
III – Unknown
Lo there, do I see my father
Lo there, do I see my mother and my brothers and my sisters
Lo there, do I see the line of my people back to the beginning
Lo, they do call to me
They bid me take my place among them
In the halls of Valhalla
Where the brave may live forever
II – Crichton
Lo, I see here my father and mother.
Lo, now I see all my deceased relatives sitting.
Lo, there is my master, who is sitting in Paradise.
Paradise is so beautiful, so green.
With him are his men and boys.
He calls to me, so bring me to him.
I – The Rus
Behold, I see my father and mother.’
I see all my dead relatives seated.’
I see my master seated in Paradise
and Paradise is beautiful and green;
with him are men and boy servants.
He calls me. Take me to him.’
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-23 20:16:00 UTC
We, are the Men of the West.
We hold formation despite our fear.
We speak the truth regardless of cost
We attack the enemy despite our injuries
We will not stop until they are defeated
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 17:03:00 UTC