@midgerdimshalty@1Demgrec Of course they did!
They consciously copied the forms and the desired ends!
Meanwhile the Modern Greeks are a bastardized Hellenized version of the Ancient Jews, for all the remnants of the Ancient Greek matter.
They kvetch and mooch and their end goal is, what, mummification?
@noon_ta_noeta Pretty sure the Ancient Greeks could whip themselves into a mutual genocidal frenzy directed at their genetically and culturally indistinguishable neighbours 30 km away of intensity last time seen at Stalingrad maybe
“The whale that fell, it was like a cathedral that surrendered its stone. Frantic, hungry mouths emerged from everywhere to unbuild it.”
“Abundance ends as the architecture for the nothing that follows.”
“Tell the whale that.”
“The whale, in falling, told us.”
@PalmyrPar Every single proper country feels fake now, at best fossilized.
Because its ruling elderly generation have grown into their boss chairs like solid fossil rocks, while their middle-aged generation lacking their deserved upper and upper-middle ranks are kidults - a fake situation
Scotland's decline can be measured by the fact their national stereotypes have converged with Ireland's.
Scottish people used to be known as dour engineers.
@PinningtonLuke@pegobry_en No we don't. Russia split Georgia in 5 days four years later. It would have taken as long to whip the Baltics into submission.
You are an insincere Westerner who doesn't have to shed a single drop of blood, so you can pontificate while the Ukrainians go through Paraguayan war.
@PinningtonLuke@pegobry_en You are as slow as a Ukrainian.
The Baltic States were allowed into NATO by Russia in early 2000's because Russia quite expected to join next or soon after. That moment passed long ago.
Whole ten years before the Crimea affair.
Of course they should have capitulated immediately
@uncle_deluge The Church saved whatever could fit its Christian myth or be contorted to fit it in a way plausible to Medieval cretins.
If the Modern State takes the role of Medieval Church, its clerics behave in the same ways pursuing the same goals.
@uncle_deluge Aren't they effectively state employees? If they can't find examples of Modern State-approved sensibilities they will invent some or denigrate anything pre-Modern. They are literally paid to be insincere.
Feels like this was discussed to death back in mid-19th century already.
@PinningtonLuke@pegobry_en They did effectively volunteer ever since they have started antagonizing the Black Sea fleet and NATO-teasing Russia instead of just requesting gibs like Belarus or the -stans do
Volunteered, as in — neither NATO nor the US signed any treaties with the Ukraine. Suicide for naught
@PinningtonLuke@pegobry_en What consequences?
'Cede Crimea and become a neutral like Austria or Finland'?
Or was it 'stop your civil war against Eastern Hohols' part?
One can look at Belarus to see the infinite money exploit available when one does not antagonize Russia for empty promises.
@SuperInsaneGoku@husafell_stone Neither do the current Europeans get into the European music. The Europeans are not getting into anything at all.
They are to European high culture what Modern Greeks are to the Ancient ones.
Hence the Japs and Chins are toying with the leftovers.
@SuperInsaneGoku@husafell_stone Then you would have no need to sprinkle bone dust of a long dead and buried entity to cope with Chongs getting into the European modes of music.