A "type" during late Republic was the "downwardly mobile patrician." This was by both circumstance (Sulla, Catiline) and choice (Clodius Pulcher). They didn't share politics. Sulla tried to restore old order, Catiline wanted 2 destroy it and Clodius was just having fun. But they had a similar behavior and talents: debauched, scandalous personal and sexual behavior, and great charisma among all classes.
There is really nothing better on the internet right now. Every episode is an avalanche of novel ideas so foreign to contemporary culture that you can’t help but wonder how you’ve lived so long in your current dream state, watching shadows dance and flicker against the wall.
Some of the most accomplished and powerful men in history had a burning star in them that didn’t ever extinguish on or off the battlefield.
Alexander the Great hosted great feasts and drinking binges that lasted days before returning to combat. These killed many of dozens of his men and ultimately himself
Alcibiades crashed a party thrown by Socrates to just to cause chaos and had a notorious reputation as the Playboy of Athens.
Cesare Borgia went to the Vatican and threw the “Banquet of Chestnuts”, inviting hundreds of guests a prostitutes for what was essentially a massive orgy on holy ground.
Maurice de Saxe began as a child solider who through his own drive and will rose to lead France’s military and decimate Austria’s. He threw massive parties with France’s most sought after actress, Adrienne Lecouvreur and cheated on her constantly.
Intensity often expands in all directions.
@cloneristic Some deep truths here
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The best combination is to freely act with as much love as the girl generates in you. Look into her eyes, touch her lovingly, hold nothing back
But make no verbal declarations of love and commit to nothing
Try it out
NAMASTE
Hector embodies the chivalric values of a knight, sworn to protect his land and people.
Achilles, by contrast, is the embodiment of the full pagan force of life, a true vitalist chasing glory and immortality.
Both and neither is the only true answer, and exactly the point Homer wanted to make. The Greeks held each as a hero worthy of worship, both expressing a different vision of manly virtue. It is yet another reflection of the duality of man.
In considering whom our civilization ought to idolize today, the choice becomes much clearer: from where we stand, we can no longer return to Hector. A thousand years of barbarism would have to pass before that were possible. The young men of the west must therefore idolize Achilles, as Alexander once did!
@adolfmaxxing@bronzeagemantis This is likely a contributing factor
An inherent even subconscious fear of cuckolding as their women are more up for grabs than times when they were in house, huge social consequences for adulterous etc
I think only one pillar of the problem though
After watching this I think I finally grasp the Black Experience. It’s living in this bizarre world you and your people never could’ve created, and you don’t understand how any of it works, and it’s all just this big shape store to you. Pristine theatrics indeed. This is true art
@RealJarTaylor Anyone who fell for this is at the time is so dishonest or stupid they can never be trusted again
It is so absurdly unlikely for white lacrosse players to do this and their word is so much more trustworthy than a black stripper