>Be the most violent man of your time.
>Be the most virtuous man of your time.
>Be born to lower nobility.
>Your father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all die in battles for France.
>Win a horsemanship contest in front of the King at 13.
>Win a tournament in front of the King at 18.
>Capture an enemy standard in battle at 19. Knighted immediately.
>Fight a public duel to the death against giant Spanish warrior at 26.
>Hold off 250 enemy Spanish knights on a bridge by yourself so your army doesn't get obliterated. Survive.
>Pope asks you to command his armies and offers immense salary.
>Write the Pope to say you'd rather be a humble soldier for your King than a foreign Prince.
>Win the battle of Genoa by leading a seemingly impossible cavalry charge uphill.
>Put in charge of a small contingent of French army. Revitalize the army with the discipline and skill of your own men.
>Hang out with Emperor Maximillian at the failed siege of Padua (not your fault).
>Nearly capture the Pope in a raid near Ferrara.
>Oversee a duel as Master of the Lists for The Italian Thunderbolt Gaston Le Foix.
>Lead dismounted men-at-arms in repeated charges to win the siege of Brescia. Suffer bad thigh injury.
>Allow your men to take you to a commoners house to recover.
>Need to leave before you are fully recovered because a huge battle is brewing at Ravenna.
>Leave the commoners, a mother and her daughters, with a thousand gold pieces when you leave.
>When the enemy discovers you have personally arrived at Ravenna, they exclaim your value on the field is equivalent to 2,000 men.
>Your personal bravery in leading decisive charges carries the day at Ravenna but the last minute loss of your captain and friend Gaston Le Foix is strategic catastrophe for France and devastating personal loss for you.
>Many of your friends and associates become mercenaries, chasing wealth far exceeding your own.
>You are disinterested in chasing wealth.
>Among savages, earn a reputation for (aside from your supreme savagery) your kindness and light-heartedness.
>Captured by the King of England in battle.
>Released on the sole promise to not fight for six weeks.
>Don't fight for six weeks.
>Battle of Marignano with new King Francis I. Carry the day with the King. King asks you to knight him on the field of battle afterwards.
>You are now lieutenant-general of the French army.
>Hold the city of Mezieres with 1,000 men against 35,000 Holy Roman Empire besiegers.
>All of France celebrates your achievement.
>Named to the Order of St. Michael.
>King orders you are allowed to command 100 knights in your own name, a privilege reserved for Princes of the Blood.
>When the army is on the march, ride at the front of the vanguard and forbid your troops from looting and pillaging the locals. Placing sentries at churches to guard the women taking shelter inside from being raped as the army passes.
>When the army is retreating, ride at the very back putting out fires and helping villagers recover from the passing of the front of the army.
>Paid peasants from his own pocket whenever he needed anything on campaign.
>Wherever you pass, locals and peasants rush to the army to bring you gifts. Unheard of.
>In your own lifetime given many nicknames and epithets, including "beyond fear and reproach".
>Prefer to just be called "Le Bon Chevalier" (The Good Knight).
>At the Battle of the Sesia River, be fighting at the back of the rearguard as the army retreats.
>Hit with an arquebus ball.
>Left to die under a tree.
>Enemy surrounds you, including Italian captain Pescara and your old comrade the Duke of Bourbon who defected to the Italians.
>Duke of Bourbon says to you, "Ah! Monsieur.. I am very sad to see you in this state; you who were such a virtuous knight!"
>Respond to the Duke of Bourbon before you die, "Sir, there is no need to pity me. I die as a man of honor ought, doing my duty; but I pity you, because you are fighting against your king, your country, and your oath."
>Be one of the best who ever did it.
>Be The Chevalier Bayard.
The Death of Beauty
Aesthetic expressions of unique cultural identity were abolished because they were the main barrier to rapid technological progress.
Jaques Ellul writes that to the skilled artisan of the past, “It was impossible to conceive of a tool that was not beautiful.”
However, “aesthetic considerations are gratuitous and permit the introduction of uselessness into an eminently useful and efficient apparatus.”
Technology once served the human and his will toward aesthetic beauty is no more.
Now, there is a universal "right way" to produce, a most efficient, most optimal way. This focus on utility and optimization forbids focus on aesthetics because it elevates quantity rather than quality.
Aesthetics prevent and deter progress. An aesthetic focus impedes the advancement technology's expansion beyond the human. Therefore, beauty has become the enemy of the machine.
"Ugliness" is the result of when our focus turns away from the realm of gods and our eyes fixate exclusively upon the material. "Simplicity" becomes a demand. We must exterminate any ideals connected to tradition in which the purpose of art was to connect man to the divine. No, now all must instead become its most basic, rudimentary, pithy quality in the name of abundance.
Men have much devolved by the same process in which the ascetic heroic ideal latent within humanity has been vanquished at worst and forsaken at best. The greatness of the individual has become replaced with the degeneracy of what is most common.
No longer does man aspire toward the excellence of his folk and the conquest the Earth. He turns away from God to wander without purpose, seeking an identity through only that which the "god of quantity", the technological system can provide.
Now, his meaning comes from the abundance of distraction — a Funko Pop that mimics the heroic calling and a high fructose corn syrup drink used to lull himself into a slobbish sleep. And so man himself becomes ugly, mass produced, artificial.
We of the Hyperborean Right reject the ugly, decrepit state of humanity imposed upon us by the technological system. We will not accept the bribes of this false god. Instead, we will represent a new quality of heroic type whose sole purpose is to vanquish the dragon of decay and return power to our folk.
Ted Kaczynski was right. We think of him as a "schizo extremist", but his philosophy predicted the response to the Epstein files — nothing.
The Epstein files makes it clear: everyone in the government are traitors; they're all "in on it".
So, why does no one overthrow the tyrants, like our ancestors overthrew the British during Revolutionary War?
Ted Kaczynski claims that:
"Several hundred years ago, violence was not considered immoral in European society. In fact, under suitable conditions, it was admired. The most prestigious social class was the nobility, which was then a warrior caste."
The Western world was once defined by hierarchy, rule of great men who organized the lesser in accordance with God’s will. The ideal of Empire propelled us to dominate the world. The warrior held the most valuable position in the hierarchy, as his force was necessary to conquer and maintain the law decreed by the higher.
Now the “man of action” is spat upon, anyone who remotely suggests organization is quickly labeled a “fed poster” and singled out for elimination. Why? What caused this shift?
With traditional, Aryan hierarchy abandoned, technological progress has become our organizational principle. This was, however, not always the case.
Progress was "held in check" by tradition until the 1700s, when:
The "French Revolution [lead to the] disappearance of religious and social taboos [and replaced them with] materialism, the suppression of the various hierarchies, regicide, and the struggle against the clergy”.
Modern civilization may appear to be “collapsing”, but it is rather being molded to “smooth out” any differentiation that may impede technological expansion. Progress is the force of inversion in itself that mandates everything degenerate into a lowest, collective, indistinguishable sameness.
The will of technology is to expand as efficiently as possible; it organizes civilization in such a way that barriers to its expansion are rapidly eliminated — this means the total deletion of unique expressions of identity.
The “efficiency principle” functions as follows:
"In addition to suppressing racial, ethnic, religious, and other group hostilities, it also has to suppress or harness for its own advantage all other tendencies that could lead to disruption or disorder, such as machismo, aggressive impulses, and any inclination to violence”.
All cogs in the machine must function at maximum optimality at all times to quicken advancement. Individual expressions of uniqueness become impediments to progress. Therefore, all must become the same. All must become normalized, standardized, stripped of any hindrance.
Culture is first targeted and destroyed. The time required to produce beautiful works and architecture is the first to go. We don't need quality. We need quantity. We demand simple, mass production to expand the urban environment as quickly as possible.
Families are ripped up from the wilds and quickly filed one by one into concrete honeycomb towers to forever remain.
This process of coaxing members into urbanized environments and removing them from folk practices has caused a crisis of skill.
We literally forgot how to rebel against the system, after generations of urban and suburban life. We cannot remotely fathom how to revive, let alone value, American folk practices related to frontier life — homesteading, self-production of food and resources, hunting, trapping, etc.
The Americans were able to win the Revolutionary War because of our frontiersman culture. Our people fought perfectly integrated with nature and supplied one another with goods produced by our folk.
We maintained a rugged, self-sufficient population and an ascetic warrior culture across generations in such a way that most everyone was both ready and capable enough to fight “at any minute”.
Rebellion today is impossible; we are completely reliant upon the system for all goods, income, defense, etc. The list of our needs is endless and eternal. It makes no difference that we “notice” the chains around our necks and the Satanic pedophiles who whip us.
We have no skill, no virtue, no ability to fight. Rather, we are happy to be slaves, so long as we have access to an unlimited amount of “goyslop” to distract us.
Even we revolutionary types are too useless to act. In our profound stupidity, we "high IQ" members confuse the act of “noticing” our chains with rebellion in itself. In fact, we're "noticing" ourselves to death.
To pretend that knowledge alone constitutes an authentic revolutionary act against "the system" shows how useless we've become.
We lack the skill to engage authentic acts of resistance. We lack the will to go beyond our prison. Worse, we rationalizes the prison as our home, our most holy value. Surely, we believe, someone more powerful will save us, will come to our aide in our time of need. So, we go out triumphantly and vote, consenting to continue our demise.
Until we are able to overcome materialist fixation and our authentic belief that the slave system is a value we will continue to lose and rationalize passivity as an ideal.
The genocide of Orthodox Christians in Atheist Soviet Russia is perhaps the single greatest Christian persecution in Human history.
What crimes did the Bolsheviks commit during the ‘Russian Revolution?
They nailed him to the floor of the church. He remained alive for a long time. Red-hot ramrods were slowly driven into his body until one pierced his heart… This is how Bishop Sylvester (Olshevsky) of Omsk died in February 1920.
Bishop Tikhon (Nikanorov) of Voronezh was crucified on the Royal Doors of the iconostasis.
Bishop Andronik of Perm was buried alive in a pit which he had been forced to dig himself.
Bishop Hermogenes of Tobolsk was tied to a ship’s wheel and drowned.
Bishop Seraphim (Chichagov) was carried on a stretcher to be executed at the Butovo firing range, as the nearly 90-year-old elder could no longer walk.
Grand Duchess Elizabeth & the nun Barbara were thrown alive into a deep mineshaft in Alapaevsk.
Bishop Benjamin of Petrograd, along with several laymen, was shot after a show trial based on false charges related to the confiscation of church valuables.
Priest Peter Skipetrov was shot in the face in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
Archbishop Nikon Rozhdestvesnky (accused of ‘antisemitism’) was stabbed & maimed to death outside of his monastery (Trinity Sergius Lavra), his body was disfigured beyond recognition. The Bolsheviks also beheaded him.
Metropolitan Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky) of Kiev was dragged outside the walls of the Kiev Lavra, shot, and bayoneted while he gave his blessing to his executioners.
The elderly ascetic, Bishop John (Pommer) of Latvia, was tied to a door torn from its hinges, laid on a workbench, brutally tortured, and then set on fire while still alive.
Bishop Thaddeus of Tver was drowned in human waste.
Father Alexey Merkuryev of the Urals was murdered in front of his congregation, daughter, and son.
Bishop Theophan of Solikamsk was stripped, his hair braided, a pole threaded through it, & he was slowly lowered into an icy hole in the Kama River. His body became encased in ice. But the hierarch was still alive - and then he was drowned.
Some priests and laymen had their hands tied behind their backs, their eyes blindfolded, and were ordered to walk across the ice until they fell into a hole. The torturers mockingly called them ‘divers.’
The holy prisoners of the Solovki labor camp had their beards and mustaches ripped out and were starved to death…
No number of pages or tears can recount all that our land endured so recently - just yesterday. This is only a drop in the ocean of blood shed by the Holy New Martyrs, whose memory we commemorate each year.
Hundreds of thousands of priests and millions of laypeople were killed and torn apart for their faithfulness to Christ. More than 2,000 have been canonized as confessors and martyrs - and how many more are known only to God?
And this was not some mere political struggle. It was hell itself unleashed. Only demons devoid of all conscience could torture people in such ways.
The scale, ferocity, and mercilessness of Soviet persecution of the Church is encapsulated in a single figure: out of 80,000 churches and monasteries at the beginning of the 20th century, by 1939, barely a hundred parishes remained across the vast Russian land. Not a single monastery. Not a single seminary. Not a single bishop at liberty. Just a scattered handful of monks.
@grantshapps You're withdrawing from the Pacific. Gave up Diego Garcia. Can't muster more than 60k fighting men. Have barely any functioning ships that can project power. Rely on the US to carry NATO. You dont have industrial production capability to sustain war. You couldnt be weaker.
@firstthingsmag Dignity is a two way street. Westerners have been asked to pay mass sums of treasure for their economic competition, which ultimately forestalled or stopped their own family generation. Dignity of the natives is never addressed, because the USCCB buys into the leftist narrative.
SACRED CHORAL MUSIC 🧵
Here's a collection of some of my favorite sacred choral music of all time. It's chronological and by no means comprehensive! Certain classics like Handel's Messiah and standards like Silent Night aren't included but only because they're standards.
Enjoy🙏
@Jess_did_it_x@colonelhogans@Rafale_yu Try this on for size... children, boys and girls, need a MOTHER and a FATHER. I know this is difficult for you, because you're struggling with modernity induced retardation, but do try.
@colonelhogans Man, sure was weird when little kids and dogs were getting monkeypox, which could only be transmitted sexually and then the story of MP disappeared from the news. Anyway, explain why gays seem to overwhelmingly adopt boys?
Professor Tenney Frank confirmed what Livy, Cicero, Seneca, Tacitus, Juvenal, and countless others knew millennia ago.
Rome’s decline began with racial replacement; everything else was merely its consequence.
Rome fell because it ceased to be Roman.
@USCCB Where is the condemnation of James Martin, who continues to elevate sodomy above the body of Christ? Is sodomy an evil act directly condemned by the word of God or is it, as James Martin would have us believe, as good and ordered a sexual relations between husband and wife?
@austeni@JamesMartinSJ The question is Austen, why are you and James Martin and the lavender prelates so hell bent on your destruction by valuing your penchant for gay sex over the immortal ordinance of God? Is it because you just don't believe or something else?