BurnishedRowsofSteel

Mine Eyes have seen the Glory!

[BurnishedRowsofSteel @BurnishedRows]

But the evangelical politico-theological DNA of the right has decayed and now there’s this cancerous growth of vestigial GWOT-evangelical-QAnon propaganda with foreign contaminants like Russian and Israeli psyops, professor Jiang midwit schizophrenia, @Cobratate Islam, @TuckerCarlson Qatarphilia all metastasizing through different organs of the body politic.

[Octavian 🇪🇺 @posta_octavian]

This is a version of the "eternal return" and it's an optimistic cope for cultures in decline or stasis, who are involuntarily waiting for a more vital culture to come and destroy them drag them into a new age.

Humanity cannot remain an innocent child. It grows and learns. Agriculture was not a sandcastle, it changed the world for ever. The domestication of the horse by the Indo Europeans changed the world forever and so on. Things constantly happen in human history that permanently change the nature of humanity. Each new major technology is a traumatic loss of innocence that we cannot ever reverse; the child grows up. There is moral bias because achieving an advancement in technology is an indicator of a superior social organisation making it possible, and together they beget power and the right to rule and thus the determination of right and wrong.

[Handful of Dust @DeathClosesAll]

Insofar as Gen Z is more “risk averse” than previous generations, it’s mostly a rational response to existing conditions. Margins are much thinner now, one mistake or bad decision can easily ruin your life.

[BurnishedRowsofSteel @BurnishedRows]

If.

If you can take the feast of this late hour,
Babel’s silk, and jet, and endless streaming glow;
And still refuse the century its power,
To make you kneel to the evil thou know.

If you can love the metropolis that made it,
The thousand cuisines crammed in twenty blocks;
And tally what the mixing has degraded
While mopping up the last of Hainanese stock.

If you can bless the migrant’s kitchen,
The drunken noodles, the lemongrass, and the lime;
While voting that the gate be barred—no anchor hitching,
With no guilt, no cognitive-dissonance. Sublime!

If you can love and keep the city when all about you,
Are losing their nerve, blaming black and Jew;
If you can taste the age and not be swallowed,
Take all its spice and keep your marrow true.

Walk streets your fathers never could have followed
Yet hold the line your fathers held for you;
If you can trust in marriage when all men doubt,
But make allowance for the whore dream too.

If you can cheer the anchor who fights war-hawks
And bars the gate against the swelling tide,
Yet know his tongue is forked, his every word stalks,
Some private end, and he never once takes true side;

If you can bear the praise for gild you’ve spoken,
Twisted by the gilded to praise their wicked;
Or watch the pauper you pitied play at Cain,
And still stoop and love your neighbor by the picket:

If you can name Muhammad’s creed your foe,
Yet catch the hand that points, and see it was paid to point it so.

If you can judge Likud state’s transgression and rail,
And still be sickened by the ones who wail.

If you can hide your power level and not be tired by waiting,
Yet not lie placid in coward’s sleeping.

If you can grant the corporal his fire,
The earth shook with his vision and will;
Yet see the pits, the ash, of human smoke on pyre.
60 million graves, a race-war’s endless kill.

If you can love the age and hate it,
Take its gifts and give your worship none;
Yours is Modernity and everything that's in it,
And — which is more — you'll have ridden the tiger, my son!

(Inspired by my love for the Singaporean Hainanese chicken rice I just had)

[Octavian 🇪🇺 @posta_octavian]

One reason why conservatives (and right wingers) hate Hegel is that the entire conservative intellectual sphere is all about one-upping each other with increasingly absurd and obscure points in history where everything supposedly went wrong.

The rightoids love this stuff because it LOOKS like an explanation for where everything comes from, it's comforting and demystifies the world for them, so the cattle are very impressed when Dyer blames it all on nominalism, Peterson on postmodernism, Prager U on Marxism, Irvin Babbitt on Rousseau, etc.

But seeing ideas as necessary answers to problems and contradictions of their time, as part of the historical development of thought, as Hegel did, makes it impossible to participate in this absurd race to the bottom. Nominalism was simply an attempt to answer the problem of universals, which was a real problem which needed a real answer. You cannot expect people to just stop thinking or to stop looking for answers at some arbitrary moment I'm time because you don't like what they come up with to solve contradictions or problems.

A proper right winger is someone like Otto von Bismarck. Did he like German nationalism? No. But he made it subservient to Prussian interests and tamed it. Did he like liberalism? No, but he knew he couldn't pretend it wasn't an important force in society and managed them through parliament and mass enfranchisement. Did he like socialism? No, but he knew it responded to the misery of the working classes so he introduced social welfare, etc. He was successful because he recognised that these ideas have their necessary existence. Rather than try to fight them as these aberrations that shouldn't, he mastered them.

[Handful of Dust @DeathClosesAll]

Retard

[Sneedle @SRamirez68083]

Ethics is the branch of philosophy that deals with taking a bunch of disjointed heuristics that evolved to allow a group of ~50 monkeys to cooperate and turning it into a logically coherent system that would kill a billion people if applied at scale.

[BurnishedRowsofSteel @BurnishedRows]

“…if women can't be trusted to assert their desires or boundaries because they'll invariably lie about what they want in order to please other people, it's not just sex they can't reasonably consent to. It's medical treatments. Car loans. Nuclear non-proliferation agreements. Our entire social contract operates on the premise that adults are strong enough to choose their choices, no matter the ambient pressure from horny men or sleazy used car salesmen or power-hungry ayatollahs.”

[BurnishedRowsofSteel @BurnishedRows]

The last point is something I’ve dealt with in the Orthodox Church. Full of young men who see it as a way to reinforce conservative values, especially on women, which the Orthodox Church correlates with because its adherents are from poorer, more backwards areas.

Patriarchal dominion over the family stems from nature, the natural power man has over woman, and is in fact supposed to be softened by the radical teaching of Christ.

[BurnishedRowsofSteel @BurnishedRows]

The recurring attempt by weak anthropoi to make Christianity a masculine religion of physical strength as a means of making up for their own lack of natural vitality.

Christianity civilizes, humbles, and gentles andres who would otherwise rape and pillage, it’s not a self-help religion for self-esteem issues.

And it’s especially not a way of enforcing traditional patriarchal norms.

[Syd Steyerhart @SydSteyerhart]

Everyone tells me that Elon Musk is a fascist because he could "solve world hunger" for a mere 3 billion dollars, but MacKenzie Bezos has burned through 26 billion dollars of her ex husband's money and accomplished absolutely nothing of note.

[Jo @junker_jo]

They’re using the guy beheading your brother in the street to distract you from your real enemy: Jeff Bezos delivering medicine to your front door overnight

[BurnishedRowsofSteel @BurnishedRows]

The problem with any attempt to return to the past is that the past led to the present.
European paganism was already wiped out by the love and violence of Christianity and the reason of Plato. It cannot exist without self-consciousness of its death.

[Rika Uindou @uindourika]

The left is doing everything in their power to prevent you from seeing this. This completely destroys their entire narrative.

[Swagtron Swashy 🏴‍☠️ @punishdivystyle]

What the hell are you retards even talking about anymore

[Covfefe Anon @CovfefeAnon]

Prison itself is a failed experiment from the real Woke 1.0 - 18th century Quakerism which should finally be acknowledged as having utterly failed in every way

Prison should be abolished...

[BurnishedRowsofSteel @BurnishedRows]

https://t.co/gw7uvumymU

[BurnishedRowsofSteel @BurnishedRows]

Fear of negative social mobility may be a better form of social control than rigid coercion/caste because it encourages self exploitation and causes less solidarity/negative solidarity because of competition.

[Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin]

You’re just looking at a big herd of sheep.

21st-century crowds mean nothing because we have lost the basic human capacity for mass violence. A “demonstration” matters because it is an incipient mob—500,000 people can do anything they want.

Except they can’t and they won’t

[Haydn, 🇵🇸 @bilbosfootcomb]

What if the pope told you to love your neighbor as yourself and care for the poor

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Guy who becomes a Republican because he realizes that their hostility to environmental review and regulations means that you can build more wind and solar infrastructure.