Alec

Half of everything is luck ᚠ

[dan @aristophaneet]

call me a larper, but i yearn for an american paganism: hero-worship of washington, a state cult of lady columbia, a laurentian cernunnos for our vast wilderness, a hermes of the frontier, patron of explorers...

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

An agate stone that looks like an ocean painting.

[Äeryn🌙⚡️ @dualedraumar]

Enjoy this picture of Tolkien as Mercury

[Alexander's Cartographer @cartographer_s]

Monument for the Temple of Immortality - Louis Jean Desprez, 1790

[Alec @GothariGer]

"philosophy was invented to show the biologically superior the truth of nature & the arbitrariness of customary limitations on their power"

[Charles Wing-Uexküll @CWingUexkull]

I’ll bite:

_Selective Breeding_ argues that the Athenians were right about Socrates, that he was a tutor of would-be tyrants whose teachings attacked the ethical presuppositions of Greek democracy.

Democratic restraints on aristocracy were as much psychological as political: by colonizing men’s minds & getting them to conform to the wisdom of the crowd, the common good, the ways of the elders, the many could put mental shackles on the aristocrats who embodied excellence.

The whole point of Socrates’ teaching was to undermine Athenian values & let the best come to an awareness of a higher, natural right… & the point of Plato’s teaching was to subtly preserve Socrates’ truths while seeming to disavow them.

Pindar is used to great effect to show the sort of ‘unbridled’ aristocratic ethos, when it was allowed to express itself freely.

The idea that philosophy was invented to show the biologically superior the truth of nature & the arbitrariness of customary limitations on their power was profound & thrilling to me when I first read it—couldn’t believe it was actually in a dissertation.

It’s not that _Selective Breeding_ is the academic version of BAM… it’s more that BAM is the kind of encrypted exhortation to the few of which _Selective Breeding_ speaks… it’s a latter-day example of (more or less encrypted) anti-democratic teachings rooted in nature that _Selective Breeding_ found in Plato.

[犬 @not__dog__]

“Anything is possible in the Eternal City.”

[Alec @GothariGer]

>we finally learned how the war is fought and can fight back

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

STOP saying “sensitive young man.” The native English word is “feelknight.”

[Alec @GothariGer]

Soon

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

Man, Luxor is going to be nuts.

[𝔊𝔢𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔚𝔞𝔳𝔢✞ @Germanic_Wave]

Faustian Spirit

[Hoppeism ‡ @Hoppeism]

just the tip

[⚡️NEVERDOOMPRO⚡️ @NEVERDOOMPRO]

NEVER DOOM.

[Alec @GothariGer]

Keep going

[Old Internet @OldInternetFeel]

2013

[Magnetic Dreams @Venuswhacker]

Have you forgotten already?

[HandsomeH. @Yamnayanage]

The Prince of Thule sends his regards.