People don't want to profess low-status ideas. They may find moral hectoring off-putting. Otherwise they mostly don't care about what's true or what makes sense & they discard fashionable beliefs contrary to their own interests only when their backs are against the wall.
First thoughts on The Odyssey.
There is a scene at the very beginning of the film in which, in the absence of his father, Telemachus is being trained by the blind Eumaeus, Odysseus’s loyal servant. Eumaeus warns that the reason Telemachus is constantly being bested by his sparring partner is that his defense is too quick. He must move more slowly, open his chest, invite the attack, and use his opponent’s momentum against him.
In the spirit of Odysseus, deep trickery is at work in this film.
Don’t let the apparent compromises fool you. The Odyssey is an absolute triumph. It is made with a profound love for the source material, filled with deep pathos: the return of the father, the elevation of the son, and the restoration of proper order despite all the sins perpetrated by the guardians of that order.
It is a film about the end of one world and the beginning of another; about remembrance, return, and the perpetuation of an order after a long wandering through chaos.
It’s The Odyssey.
Machiavelli offered two valuable services during the formative period of modern English culture . His rejection of metaphysics abetted the heresy of Protestantism, and his reputation as Old Nick supported anti-Papist ideology. There was little need for Vico or Leopardi by the time they appeared.
Aristocrats in established ruling classes are brought up with an exquisite sense of social impact and prestige. But this sense is hard to teach, because it is impossible to quantify
It is impossible to review the events of the last decade and conclude that it is anything other than divine providence that Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States on the year of America 250, July 4th, 2026.
@curtis_yarvin how many congressmen would vote for jurisdiction stripping and impeaching federal judges or repealing the 20th century bureaucracy? a dozen?
It's called a chief executive. He runs the executive branch. It's his "company" to execute the laws. Execute => executive.
Do you expect a CEO (Chief Executive Officer) to not have full hiring and firing authority over his company?
This isn't hard.
“No great men of history” theory cropping up in our time can largely be explained by our corporate and governmental culture of diffuse ownership and diffuse risk making even the most mundane decisions within an organization a Byzantine group effort.
This is what I wish the Trump Admin would say:
We do not agree with the ruling handed down by the Supreme Court today. We do not always agree with the Supreme Court, but this case is different. The Supreme Court's ruling today is not just wrong, but has implications which ultimately threaten to permanently deprive the American People of their nationhood and sovereignty.
While the Supreme Court has long claimed Judicial Supremacy, meaning that they proclaim themselves to have the final say on all matters with respect to the law, and while this is generally accepted within normal times, there is historical precedent for the Executive to overrule the Supreme Court in matters of supreme national interest. We believe this is one of those critical moments where the Executive must exercise his check on the powers of the Judiciary to not uphold their rulings with the force of the Executive Branch.
The Judicial Branch is the least representative of the people as it is the only branch of the State which is not democratically selected. The President, by contrast, consistently gets the most electoral turnout within our political system, meaning the office of the President and the mandate he was elected on are generally the most representative of the actual will of the American People.
The Supreme Court ruling today not only frustrates the delivery of that mandate, but is so outrageous in its implications for our national sovereignty and security that to allow this interpretation to stand would be irresponsible if not outright suicidal for our nation.
And so the Office of the President, empowered by the sovereignty entrusted to him by the American people, in this case has concluded it must exercise that sovereignty to decide the exception. We must take exception to the Judicial Supremacy clause binding the other branches to the Supreme Courts rulings.
The Trump administration does not recognize this ruling as valid, and will enforce Executive Order 14160, "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship," as originally ordered.
The Court has made their ruling. Now let them enforce it.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
@curtis_yarvin Competitively spending to unseat all 468 incumbents in a single election cycle would cost less than the total spent on the 2024 election (<$5 billion)
Trump is as far as I can tell the only President to successfully oust multiple incumbent Senators in the same election cycle. Not even FDR managed that and he tried.
I’m America First all the way but through my study of history I’ve really come to admire the British Empire and what it achieved over the course of centuries. It was undoubtedly a force for good in the world, and the men they sent out to colonize the planet were some of the most noble, brave, and manly to ever live. That’s why it pains me to see this once mighty nation brought to its knees by the barbarian hordes — an army of invaders who didn’t, and couldn’t, defeat them on the battlefield, but were rather let in the front door and given free rein to rape British daughters and slaughter British sons in the street. Very sad to see. What a tragic conclusion. And so totally preventable.
@curtis_yarvin Two federal judges used the Administrative Procedure Act to strike down the Trump admin’s halt to immigration and asylum applications and the $100K H-1B fee in the past week. The APA turns 80 on June 11th and most Americans have no idea it exists.