Shamanëtu

[Shamanëtu @barduoustask]

"Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there."
- Thucydides

[Spergler Acolyte @SperglerAcolyte]

If there are any fantasy or even SciFi writers among my audience, Spengler’s Cultural model is really ripe for the taking. It’s basically just plug and play with different prime-symbols.

[Dcn. Garlick, Chancellor 🇻🇦 @HarrisonGarlic1]

How does acedia lead the soul to hate greatness?

To hate greatness both in itself and in others?

The acedious soul hates magnanimity.

The spirited part of the soul loves nobility, honor, and glory. Perfected by fortitude, it provides the necessary grit to conquer what is arduous and delight in the beauty attained.

Acedia is a “rejection of one’s own greatness.” There is no ladder of love, the acedious souls says, or if there is it is not worth ascending. Like despair, “faint-heartedness” is a daughter of acedia.

The acedious soul breeds pusillanimity and indifference. It is unaware of any beauty worth sacrifice.

The acedious soul would rather wallow at the bottom of the ladder than climb toward glory. It becomes unspirited, weak, and ugly, suffering a spiritual obesity that tires the impulse of ascent.

Soft and fat-souled, man not only disbelieves in his own greatness but begins to hate greatness in others. It is his fate to wallow, pallid and corpulent, deadened to eros and untouched by courage.

Acedia may even push the soul—and even whole cultures—to hate greatness to such a degree that it becomes an “enemy of life” and believes it better to “not exist.”

[Multipolar Press / Constantin von Hoffmeister @constantinvonh]

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[Alaric @0xAlaric]

MY CONFESSION PAPERBACK IS NOW LIVE!

Back in print for the first time in decades, you can now read Chamberlain's tale of Western adventure for a reasonable price.

Thank you to the donors and readers who made this possible.

[Aurochs @CoelingAurochs]

I have to do this roughly once a year. The tired old take that "Arthur probably wasn't real" that got popularized in the fallout after John Morris published his mammoth text "Age of Arthur" is an establishment reaction to someone who wasn't going to play by their rigid rules. Many scholars took that standpoint in order to place themselves in an "anti-Morris" camp, and as such found themselves in an position as equally untenable as Morris' highly speculative work. While you will never be able to prove that Arthur unequivocally existed, you will also never prove he didn't, and the fact is there is a big Arthur sized gap in events when all things are considered from roughly 495-537, and when taking the earliest sources at face value, Arthur (regardless of his real name) was likely the cause of that gap with a relative period of stability from Germanic encroachment. I make no bold claims such as Arthur being king of ALL Britain, however his actions likely did have island wide consequences, and as such cemented his place in memory and myth. Even without considering this, "Arthur wasn't real" is boring and stupid and you should be ashamed of yourself for such bugman thinking.

[Shamanëtu @barduoustask]

@0x49fa98 @OGRolandRat Improved by a second since the Family Guy research. Impressive.

[Spergler Acolyte @SperglerAcolyte]

“Previous civilizations have been overthrown by the incursion of barbarian hordes; ours has dreamed up its own dissolution in the minds of its intellectual elite. It has carefully nurtured its own barbarians—all reared on the best Dr. Spock lines; sent to progressive schools and colleges, fitted with contraceptives or fed birth pills at puberty, mixing D. H. Lawrence with Coca-Cola, and imbibing the headier stuff (Marcuse, Chairman Mao, Malcolm X) in evening libations of hot chocolate. Not bolshevism, which Stalin liquidated along with all the old Bolsheviks; not nazism, which perished with Hitler in his Berlin bunker; not fascism, which was left hanging upside down, along with Mussolini and his mistress, from a lamppost—none of these, history will record was responsible for bringing down the darkness on our civilization, but liberalism. A solvent rather than a precipitate, a sedative rather than stimulant, a slough rather than a precipice; blurring the edges of truth, the definition of virtue, the shape of beauty; a cracked bell, a mist, a death wish.”

— James Burnham, Suicide of the West

[Shamanëtu @barduoustask]

Of course, to over-use & abuse claims of anti-Semitism is nothing new and does backfire:

[Shamanëtu @barduoustask]

@FiveTimesAugust

[Martin Skold @MartinSkold2]

And we’re live.

My book on the strategy of regional great power competition (with plenty for the naval power and WWI enthusiasts) is now available in print and electronic form from @MC_UPress. Very honored to be publishing with them.

Thanks also to @ElbridgeColby, @PatPorter76, @JJCarafano, @DavidBe31099196, and Nadia Schadlow for their endorsements. Honored to meet with their approval as well.

Get ‘em while they’re hot!

[Aurochs @CoelingAurochs]

Here's your reminder that Beowulf and King Arthur were contemporaries.

[Shamanëtu @barduoustask]

@theantiherokate Far too many people these days believe they will be immortalized by their deeds, that somehow their "story" or their "journey" will be written in the stars for future generations to behold & that will somehow make a difference to this world. Pure fantasy. Words fade, blood lives.

[Shamanëtu @barduoustask]

@MrEwanMorrison

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

“Males are physically stronger. This is an extremely dramatic sex difference; there’s almost no overlap in upper body strength between males and females. Almost all males have greater upper body strength than almost all females.” https://t.co/BE8BjnkeeI

[Shamanëtu @barduoustask]

@AuronMacintyre Noch ein Bier 🍻

[Spergler Acolyte @SperglerAcolyte]

NEW ARTICLE OUT!!!

I’ve digitized John Fennelly’s introduction to Spengler’s Decline of the West. If you’ve heard of The Decline of the West but don’t know what it’s about, this article is for you.

Link in the reply and muh bio!

[Shamanëtu @barduoustask]

Hilaire Belloc, 1922

[𝕲𝖎𝖋𝖙𝖘 @GiftsUngiven_]

🤨Karl Marx was Jewish and so was Leon Trotsky.

[Keith Woods @KeithWoodsYT]

WATCH: the moment I exposed Israeli intelligence officer Vivian Bercovici trying to disrupt the ADL files Twitter space.

After asking her about her background working with Israeli intelligence firm Black Cube she quit the space and deactivated her account.

#BanTheADL

[𝕲𝖎𝖋𝖙𝖘 @GiftsUngiven_]

"You are starving? This is not famine yet... When your women start eating their children then you may come and say, 'we are starving"

- Leon Trotsky regarding the Holodomor famine in Ukraine that occurred in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933.