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[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@Spiced420 To be fair, prostitution was accepted and widespread in probably all traditional societies. Modernity stigmatized it.

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@pensandpoison Never subject yourself to the torture of reading modern novels

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@Ben_Reinhardt I love Japan, but everything you mentioned is incredibly minor :) Not just you - I think people lack the vocabulary to say why Japan is amazing so focus on petty conveniences of this sort. Japan is cool for spiritual reasons but we lack vocabulary for that.

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@SketchesbyBoze @CoffeeandIrony Lol it's a horror masterpiece, riveting, with a masterful build up of suspense and dark Gothic atmosphere. One of the greats

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@CoffeeandIrony So interesting - I found Dracula surprisingly fast paced and masterfully builds up suspense. Also a wonderful build up of dark Gothic atmosphere. I wasn't expecting to be exciting in this fashion but found it an absolutely riveting horror masterpiece

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@NukeBushwick I just learned this year that the mountain West is actually most comparable to the central Asian steppe, in terms of geography, scenery, and climate - which makes total sense once it's pointed out, and is why I love it so.

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@OrigenalThought So in short, a niche preoccupation and not a universally human masterpiece. Many have basically said this. Still worth acknowledging that it is a masterpiece of limited niche concerns, and many intensely enjoy

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@wil_da_beast630 What bothers me about feminism also is that it is literally the lowest form of tribalism one can have. One is not even loyal to a larger collective, like a clan that has both men and women. It's the crude reductive essence of tribalism, it's final, entropic endpoint

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@wil_da_beast630 Unfortunately true. But this shows that "equality" is never what people truly want, and the real question is always of creating a hierarchy based on genuine quality. But no one thinks genuine equality is really desirable

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@Nina_Power_ Well - the empire once united, must disperse. Once dispersed, must unite. All pendulums swing, no dark age is final, and no trend continues indefinitely

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@hannahspierMD I appreciate these complex explanations, and there is much truth here, but I think the best thing is to leave a woman who starts seeing her husband as the enemy out of neuroticism. Whatever her reasons, she has revealed herself to be fundamentally unstable and not a good person

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@Ne_pas_couvrir It's a primitive moral conception of collective justice that rejects the moral worth of the individual and thinks of fairness as primarily retributive. Instead of building a better future, if my group suffered in the past, your group must now suffer. It's the opposite of progress

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@Ne_pas_couvrir Correct. It's best to understand them on their own terms even if you disagree. For leftists obvious injustices against a group today may well be a form of higher justice to correct previous group wrongs. They think in terms of collectives and in terms of historical revenge

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@JohnLeFevre What I want to see is a return to getting plastered - as Plato said, sometimes you must go divinely insane, every so often. All great civilizations understood the necessity of getting periodically shit faced as part of the higher economy of health

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@zoecabina I was very surprised to hear people say he's unattractive. I think many men today think only square jawed, muscled out types are attractive. Brand is a dark aristocratic brooding archetype with a very cool, distinctive look, and is objectively handsome (symmetrical).

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@mcdermott That's what's gonna make it cool again, and is already indeed doing so :) The fact that now it's "uncool" among stodgy mainstream establishment types. I'm told by younger people I know that they are secretly drinking like fishes

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@5teveArcher God I love this kind of rugged, "open" scenery - it's like the American West, or the steppes of central Asia, or - in a strange way :) - the deserts of the Middle East. True "wild" - so long as Britain had this as its hinterland it's imagination could be refreshed

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@luinalaska Genuine poverty, no. "Simplicity" as in all the basics are met but rejection of consumer culture to focus on better things, emphatically tes.

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@mishtal Mankind has always had a propensity to mass insanity - there are books written on this, on various mass psychosis, millenarian cults in the Middle Ages, the "madness of crowds". The idea that this was all behind us was itself a form of madness :)

[Aaron @Aaron98_89]

@portraitinflesh Every culture, not just Jewish, ought to have mild, non-extreme taboos against intermarriage, if it loves itself and wants to perpetuate itself. This is healthy and good. It's the norm in Asia, used to be in the West. Of course *some* intermarriage is also healthy and good