Stephen Pimentel

Researcher and writer: @palladiummag, @unherd, @im_1776, @AntigoneJournal, @FDRLST. Classics, political philosophy, governance futurism.

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My article on what is at stake in the Odyssey.

Civilization must be actively recovered through cunning and endurance. Remember what matters and read reality clearly. It is best to live in an expansive age; the second best is to battle all the way home.
https://t.co/Wr4gjhsQnZ

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Battling All the Way Home

Homer’s Odyssey offers a window into the Greek view of life, which can teach us what moral excellence truly means.

Read the new article by @StephenPiment (link below):

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The poison of Dionysus became medicine in Greece.

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The gods are far from silent.

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“Do things that don’t scale.”

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Meaning comes of confronting and affirming existence.

Nihilism refuses that confrontation, whether with low distractions or a high story of another world.

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@eddylazzarin Most new science fiction is not good.

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@fanofaliens It’s a strong result. But it’s also what is anticipated by current theory, not a change thereto.

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@Vatsav_eth I posted this in 2020 and haven’t seen it since. But there’s nothing wrong with quoting old things in any case.

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“tegeus-Cromis, sometime soldier and sophisticate of Viriconium, the Pastel City, who now dwelt quite alone in a tower by the sea and imagined himself a better poet than swordsman ...”

–– M. John Harrison, The Pastel City

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Most readings are straightforwardly condemnatory or exculpatory from the perspective of modern liberalism.

Few explore the possibility that Aristotle believed something quite different from most Greeks of his day, but that what he believed was equally contrary to modern liberalism.

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They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.
I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I
Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.

And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest,
A handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest,
Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake;
For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.

–– William Johnson Cory (1858)

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A great work is to find the fragments you can shore against the ruins.

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@wakenminds Plenty of eggs, meat, and dairy.

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Some brand names become near generics: Kleenex, Xerox.

ChatGPT used to be a near generic for LLMs.

Now it’s Claude.

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A great work is to find the fragments you can shore against the ruins.

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Avoid moral "westernization" at all costs. Worship your ancestors. Read old books from outside the matrix. LARP. Praise God and Nature with every breath. Get your politics from the sagas. Sing traditional songs with your family. Dress like a time traveller. ALL COSTS.

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@wakenminds Plenty of eggs, meat, and dairy.

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@niespika An absurd law based on destructive ideology changes nothing about what I said.

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“Four years ago, a novelist made accurate but critical comments about Muslim immigrants, so we shall prosecute him.”

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🔵 INFO LE FIGARO

L’écrivain Michel Houellebecq mis en examen après des propos sur les musulmans et le «grand remplacement» ⬇️
https://t.co/EB1RyZrwqg

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@olivertraldi I agree that the rationalizing apologies are off-key and tedious. But also, many of them are reactions to the absurd moralizing on the other side. There is a category of actions that I do not affirm, but that are also none of my damn business.

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The best work flows from a combination of imagination, reason, and will.

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@C_Harwick Totalizing abstraction as opposed to practical power.