Jan 24, 2020, 7:45 AM
ETHNOCENTRISM IS THE OPTIMUM GROUP STRATEGY… Ethnocentrism is the optimum group evolutionary strategy however it is in competition with the need for scale, hence the continuous conflict and decline in the tribal middle east, while slow evolution in india, faster in china, and fastest in europe. Only one civilization failed.
The Literature of The Iliad https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/25/the-literature-of-the-iliad/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-25 18:48:40 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1264991793868951552
Jan 24, 2020, 8:11 AM The vast majority of literature in the ancient world was commentary on the Iliad just as the vast majority of literature in the medieval world was on the bible. In fact, the fragments of the library at Alexandria – regardless of how that library was physically constructed – were mostly commentary on the Iliad. (The trials of Achilles)
Jan 24, 2020, 8:11 AM The vast majority of literature in the ancient world was commentary on the Iliad just as the vast majority of literature in the medieval world was on the bible. In fact, the fragments of the library at Alexandria – regardless of how that library was physically constructed – were mostly commentary on the Iliad. (The trials of Achilles)
How the Irish Destroyed New England https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/25/how-the-irish-destroyed-new-england/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-25 18:44:40 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1264990786942353409
by Scott De Warren “The Curley Effect: The Economics of Shaping the Electorate” shows how the Irish Democrat’s targeted and purged the English that had founded and built New England. A classic case for propertarians to study. It is the pattern for our dispossession by low agency left wing immigrants.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/glaeser/files/curley_effect_1.pdf (The Irish started it. The Italians just made it far worse. the eastern european Jews far far worse. And from then on it’s been a rapid decline. And new England is a wasteland other than Boston’s(Cambridge’s) top universities, and NY’s financial sector. ) [ Image is just for promotion. link above is to article ]
by Scott De Warren “The Curley Effect: The Economics of Shaping the Electorate” shows how the Irish Democrat’s targeted and purged the English that had founded and built New England. A classic case for propertarians to study. It is the pattern for our dispossession by low agency left wing immigrants.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/glaeser/files/curley_effect_1.pdf (The Irish started it. The Italians just made it far worse. the eastern european Jews far far worse. And from then on it’s been a rapid decline. And new England is a wasteland other than Boston’s(Cambridge’s) top universities, and NY’s financial sector. ) [ Image is just for promotion. link above is to article ]
Q:”The Trials of Achilles?” https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/25/qthe-trials-of-achilles/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-25 18:43:10 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1264990407336828928
A Lesson of How a Warrior Is to To Become a King: Through Nobility. https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/25/a-lesson-of-how-a-warrior-is-to-to-become-a-king-through-nobility/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-25 18:42:21 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1264990205322330112
There are values to be learned from both Achilles(a King who is not yet noble) and Hector (a warrior who is noble). However, what does it say about rage, power, and forgiveness to men who would be kings? Iliad and Odyssey are two books in what is called the Epic Cycle. The “Bible” of the ancient world. There were six others that told the other parts. The other books were much shorter And one amendment to them: the Aeneid. THE EPIC CYCLE: ACT I 1. Cypria – preamble and first nine years of the war.
ACT II 3. Aetheiopis – death of achilles 4. Little Illiad – building the trojan horse
ACTIII 6. Nostoi – Everyone but odysseus returns home 7. Odyssey – Odysseus’ journey home
POSTSCRIPT 9. Aneid – The last trojan goes west. (added later). The others are largely lost. But most of the dramas (plays) take place during these stories. And there is a lot of written commentary. So we can reconstruct them. The Iliad is “A Story of Achilles Rage” or “The Rage of Achilles“. But Priam comes to Achilles and they settle the rage. He learns to forgive his enemies and abandon his rage. It is a story of aristocracy becoming through respect and forgiveness. It is a lesson of how a warrior is to to become a king: Through Nobility.