Like Zeus who rescued his Olympian siblings to overthrow the old decadent order of his Father, Cronus, the new aristocrats must rise and defeat the modern oppressive order and create a renaissance of heroic power and light. Passage from my upcoming book, 'Aristocratic Spirit':
@AtlasNarratives 'I don't agree how you frame the narrative to make it sound as if anyone from the West could came and occupy us'- I didn't say that. I meant that E. Romans weren't a moral heroic people defending the West out of the goodness of their hearts, but bc they held territories there.
@AtlasNarratives Why am I in rage? you made a post, I pointed out latins did face off against the Turks, you said they are equal to Turks, I said they weren't, you agreed, but hold the position you were occupied whilst East Rome also conquered and defended the East for their own interests as well
@AtlasNarratives Some truth to it? so it wasn't true, or wasn't as bad? So E. Roman aggression targetting a specific group (latins lived in Constantinople, didn't control it) in a massacre doesn't warrant any aggression? what of the debts to the Doge of Venice? there's no East Roman culpability?
@AtlasNarratives The initial scenario was you putting Italy as having to defend the East for a change, which they actually did. That was the point, not more or less than that.
@AtlasNarratives I didn't know Venetians committed abuse and violence against the native Greek populations after establishing their rule. I'll have to read into that
@AtlasNarratives One was latin and Christian, which were in communion for a thousand years with Eastern Rome and held friendly relations since ancient Greece/Rome, with some infighting. Turks are asiatic speaking steppe nomads of muslim faith. To equate the two is wrong IMO.
@AtlasNarratives Didn't the Eastern Romans shamelessly kill and murder like dogs in the streets religious, men women and children during the massacre of the latins, many of which were Venetians?
@AtlasNarratives So Italian latins should've been the ones to defend the East (even though the East Romans defended the East because it had territories it conquered there), but when they were defending it, they were also conquering invaders so it has no merit? okay, I guess.
5/5 In addition to black steatite, aka soapstone, the eyes are inlaid with rock crystal painted in black, white, and red on its back flat surface. The rim is red jasper. The right eye below is the original! The snout is made of white seashell.
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Great friendships can be so good that it's hard to explain..
It's probably something like a very purposeful life, a perfect marriage, or a very deeply refined taste/skill - 99% of people die without it having ever touched it. They have no idea what they don't have.
Everyone thinks they know what friendship, wisdom, love, etc are - but only very few actually do. Masses will die without having ever experiencing it.
And all of these things - are like 2D black and white reality, vs a 3D full color one. It literally is that different. If you have no idea, pray to have it & work on yourself to deserve it.
It's part luck, true, but mostly about being a person who deserves it - and compounding is a huge factor in it, also. But if the desire is real in you, it'll find you some day.
Men like Nietzsche can't survive their own scrutiny/ epistemological skepticism.
His is a grand play, a show, perhaps necessary in a time where European thought had been stunted by the 'ought' of Christianity rather than the 'is' of life.
From 'The Aristocratic Spirit':
'Father Zeus, watching over us from Ida, most high, most honoured, whichever man has made what has happened happen to both sides, grant that he be killed and go down to the house of Hades. Let the friendship and the sworn faith be true for the rest of us.'
-Iliad, Homer
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Thus, Mycenaeans gained the Aegean prestige of Minoan Crete and their mysterious and wondrous arts, crafts, trade routes, labyrinthine palaces and wealth.
The Mycenaeans saw the Minoans as a prestige people: Before, during and after their conquest of Crete, Minoans influenced Pylos, Mycenaean aesthetics and Mycenaean religious practices.
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Mycenaeans, seeking to tie themselves to this Aegean world beyond the mainland, associated Crete with his mythical origin, and saw in Velchanos the Minoan expression of Di-wo (Zeus).