En 2021 miles de inmigrantes asaltaron la frontera ceutí. Tras una manifestación en la embajada de Marruecos me condenaron a prisión. Me llegó el fallo al recurso de apelación cuando estaba ocurriendo lo mismo. Esto es lo que hago con vuestra sentencia:
You can’t permanently stop communism because it’s the eternal social expression of deformity and resentment
You have to build a culture that disdains those things instead of pitying and elevating them
You have to embrace the values of the Heroic/Noble (bad) guys from history that were vicious and hierarchical
@LaurentiusPiave Years ago I saw a postcard on eBay depicting a figlio della lupa and a little girl saluting the tomb of the unknown solider/altar della patria. I have been searching for it since. Have you ever seen such an image?
HORRIFYING NUMBERS:
Over 200,000 union troops were German born
Around 160,000 union troops were Irish born
Hundreds of thousands more came from Canada, England, Scotland, Switzerland, France, Italy, Poland, and Mexico.
An additional 18 percent of Union soldiers had at least one foreign-born parent.
"The War of Brother Against Brother" may have been true at one point, but the introduction of 400k+ foriegn mercenaries ended that notion. I can't imagine a modern scenario in which we would stomach enlisting foriegn soldiers to kill Americans.
Lincoln was a maniac.
We were always already given a perversion of Homer. Making bored teenagers read a book of either epic in school while an incompetent instructor screeched about misogyny or violence or someone’s state of mind is why we got here. Homer has been separated from his power.
It's actually worse that millions of people have now seen Nolan's anti-Odyssey than if they'd never heard of the poem at all. The film completely inverts Homer's characters and morality. It's much easier to educate the ignorant than to reeducate the brainwashed.
“Homer doesn’t make sense for the modern world” is an indictment of modernity not of Homer
Imagine arguing we should make something more relevant to this ugly hellscape
No instead we have to make our lives relevant to the heroic, the noble, the eternal
“Homer doesn’t make sense for the modern world” is an indictment of modernity not of Homer
Imagine arguing we should make something more relevant to this ugly hellscape
No instead we have to make our lives relevant to the heroic, the noble, the eternal
If you’re running in a crew of guys, the hardcover of The Fire and the Sea makes a great honor gift. @KarlReiter5’s dramatization of D’Annunzio’s occupation of Fiume paints a picture with which we need to be familiar and comfortable: heroism against all odds.
11 copies of 'The Fire and the Sea' were sold yesterday, the single best day of sales this year. I'm not sure why, since I haven't been very aggressive with shilling it this month, but thank you all!