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I am planning to offer a live audio course here on X introducing some of the best poetry, short stories, and novels written by Americans. We are going to start with Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Please dm if you are interested in joining. We'll begin in about a week!
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My lifting buddy this morning: "Dude, what if instead of spending 20 years in the Middle East, the US invaded Mexico, destroyed all of the drug cartels, and completely secured the border?"
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I met a guy yesterday who said: "We all have a civic duty to try to be as beautiful as possible. Your body isn't just your own; everyone has to look at you! You harm others if you set a bad example and benefit and even please them if you set a good example."
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"Presidents George Washington through Theodore Roosevelt would not have used the term 'America First' to describe United States foreign policy toward other nations--because they would have deemed any other priority to be mad or criminal."
-Angelo Codevilla
July 4th is the anti-MAGA holiday: It stands for equal rights, consent of the governed, leaders with honor, and the belief we can help others enjoy these rights and secure government by consent of the governed. As the key American holiday, July 4th stands against 'America First.'
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@byPeterParadise
The happy dog with his tongue hanging from the helicopter is also completely based. He will protecc beautiful animool from ugly poachers.
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Proud to announce that after Mr. Musk followed me, he asked me to be the curator of a new X page on education!
Please feel to DM any educational content that you think is worthy of that page for consideration.
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A thread on the chemicals commonly found in water, plastics, and foods that disrupt puberty, lead to mental illness, and cause obesity.
Many of you have spoken about this but I finally looked into it myself.
It is worse than I imagined.
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A few notes from Desmet's The Psychology of Totalitarianism on academia
Replication rate failure:
Economics 50%
Cancer Research 60%
Biomedical research 85%
200 million animals were killed LAST year in the name of research that is fake, fraudulent, or erroneous 85% of the time.
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Me: lifted weights with fren, listened to Beethoven's 6th, finished writing lecture on bk 8 of Homer's Iliad, meeting frens tonight to make future schemes.
You? You probably also had an excellent day, because only humans whose souls are fire for the truth follow MCC.
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Hobbes says: gain power so that you don't die.
Nietzsche says: gain power so that you can live and die beautifully.
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All it takes for an amateur production of Shakespeare to be decent:
1) The director has to believe WS is smarter than he is
2) Just use the lines WS provides (and time period)
Simple! Do this, and even a mediocre cast can present something worth seeing and thinking about.
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Just remembering that Socrates lived in a city saturated by Homer's poetry; that he saw plays by Sophocles / Euripides / Aristophanes; that he participated in what Thucydides called the greatest war up to that time; and that he taught men like Plato, Xenophon, and Alcibiades...
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Outstanding anon classicist,
@dominbydigdug
, wrote an essay on the birth of classical scholarship in the classical age; from it's birth to after the Alexandrian age.
He perfectly balances clarity, insight, and erudition.
You will really enjoy this guest essay! Link in bio.
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At the gym today I saw a jacked chad help get his obese mother set up on the treadmill. He got on the one next to her and encouraged her to make it to the end of the workout. They both walked out smiling. Very wholesome.
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These posts appeared right next to each other and are from unrelated thinkers (well, they are related inasmuch as Costin is a hack who is trying to copy BAP) look like some sort of shot / chaser meme.
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In Michael Anton's recent
@theamgreatness
article he makes a crucial point, namely: how does one read Plato, Thucydides, Machiavelli, etc, and yet still find oneself captivated by the NYT / MSNBC account of America's political life?
A couple of thoughts:
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Fahrenheit 451 isn't about totalitarian takeover; it shows how the degeneration of a people made them beg them beg to have their freedom taken away.
A couple of striking quotations below:
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Reminder of the *minimum* reading requirements for having a clue around here:
Homer's Iliad
Homer's Odyssey
BAP's Bronze Age Mindset
Plato's Republic
Shakespeare's King Lear
And of course: NIETZSCHE'S BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
Reminder of the *minimum* reading requirements for having a clue around here:
Vico's "La Scienza Nuova"
Bruno's "De Vinculis in Genere"
Milton's "Paradise Lost"
Pico's "Oration on the Dignity of Man"
And of course: FINNEGANS WAKE
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Some people lament over the "politics of us and them" but what is the alternative? The politics of the universal and homogenous "we"?
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400 of you just followed my account!
Most people are better at poasting than I am.
BUT, I make nice lectures on Homer, Nationalism vs. Globalism, etc, and write about education.
Go to the link in my bio to sign up for my s*bst*ck for free! I'm 20 away from 1,000 subscribers!
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I sat next to a very fit and lively older guy on the plane. He uttered many regime impieties. The impressive part is that he spoke MOAR loudly the more impious his thought was. Very powerful energy; his spirit is unsmothered.
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The gods struck Athens with a lightning bolt of genius that remains the measure of all subsequent thought.
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Many say that reading/listening to BAP will make you a violent fascist, etc. But I have found recently that he has helped me be more humane.
Thred comparing small parts CR 78 (CRT) to CR 95 (Aristippus)
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Yes. Trump was not and will not be a fascist.
He wants to end our involvement in foreign wars, send migrants home, seal the border, and protect the American people by enforcing the rule of law.
This is the least controversial presidential platform in my lifetime.
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Here is the first lecture in a course on Homer's Iliad!
I can see more in Homer than I could when I was younger. BUT, that inspires more AND less confidence in my interpretive abilities, insofar as I can see clearly how much more Homer can see than I can
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"The more I explored it, the movement toward androgyny happens in a late phase of a culture, as a civilization is starting to unravel...the people who live in such cultures feel sophisticated but they are cultures who no longer believe in themselves."
--Camille Paglia
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Short thread on Bizet's CARMEN.
Of this opera, Nietzsche said, "Every time I heard Carmen I seemed to myself more of a philosopher, a better philosopher..." - from the Case of Wagner
I won't fully unpack that statement, but here are a few observations on LOVE vs DUTY in Carmen:
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Good news for Nietzsche enjoyers: my friend Phocaean has released a new essay that continues his account of Nietzsche's estimation of Socrates!
Phocaean always brings out unusual thoughts that you won't find in the secondary literature.
Check the reply.
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My friend, Phocaean, has returned with a new essay!
He does a wonderful job showing how the mode of argumentation employed by Rowling against the trans movement is bound to fail because it ultimately rests on the same premises: protect the oppressed -- rather than: live well.
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Livy's History is in 3 volumes!!!
Doesn't he know that I'm trying to read Hume for the first time to get a better sense of Nietzsche's approach to causality?
Someday I will finally be as well-read as a wealthy British 18 year-old from the 1800s.
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Last night I recorded a conversation on agriculture, manly education, and Homer with my friend William Wheelwright
@ploughmansfolly
!
He is a thoughtful man who is full of life!--very serious and very funny moments abound.
Link in bio.
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🧵on Peter Thiel. I was talking to my friend
@BitPundit
and these thoughts spilled out.
Thiel consistently demonstrates Girard's core insight that human beings are fundmamentally mimetic / imitative animals.
The first example:
Peter Thiel: I went to the World Economic Forum in Davos the last time in 2013, and of course, they have the same ideas as the mob. And in some ways, it is a mob.
And people are there only in their capacity as representatives of corporations or of governments or of NGOs.
And it
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@CosmistRussian
I think Steve Sailer says something like this in his essay on golf courses as pieces of art that imitate the kind of scenery that men in particular want to see. I was astounded by that essay; showed an incredible range. Sounded like Paglia.
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Huge whitepill: I was at a bar yesterday afternoon reading Plato and I heard a guy say "megafauna" to a girl he was on a date with. She seemed really interested and they had a long conversation about what circumstances might have led to its extinction.
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@CityBureaucrat
@KhalkeionGenos
In the NYT: "Bronze Age Pervert informed his readers that “you don’t see yourself as you really are” because “spiritually your insides are all wet, and there’s a huge hole through where monstrous powers are [expletive] your brain, letting loose all your life powers of focus.”
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Ok, imagine Lord of the Flies, but instead of it being all boys, it is all girls.
How would things turn out differently?
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Putting together a new course that offers a new and better angle on familiar classics, namely, Ray Bradbury, Jack London, Harper Lee, and William Golding.
For teachers, parents--especially homeschooling parents--and lovers of literature.
Check it out!
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What are your favorite short stories? (whether American or not).
And why?
I'm making a list.
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If you aren't annotating in your books are you even part of the great conversation?
Writing in our great books: Yes or no?
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To meet a seemingly normal guy and hear him say:
"There isn't anywhere left to retreat. They hate us; they want guys like me dead. We have to build new things and we have to win." And he said this and more with his son at the table!
Very fired up.
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Odysseus isn't the kind of man who buys things.
He either receives them as gifts or he takes them.
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I was talking to my old lifting buddy about Homer and I suddenly wondered if Hades as presented in the Odyssey is the real world: Very few humans are alive (=Odysseus) and most are mere shades (=already dead).
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Spread Too Thin
It has been a blast the last few months to be reading the greatest books with you all. I went through half of the Iliad and all of the Odyssey with Farmer Fren; all of Plato's Republic with Epimenides; and dozens of other one off conversations or short series
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In addition to reposting helpful educational content, I will highlight at least one user, institution, or set of materials, that illuminates our trackless way forward.
I will start with a man who has done so much to show how X itself can be an educational hub:
@Athens_Stranger
Proud to announce that after Mr. Musk followed me, he asked me to be the curator of a new X page on education!
Please feel to DM any educational content that you think is worthy of that page for consideration.
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@FischerKing64
Socrates says "philosophy is learning how to die"; which is to say, reconciling ourselves to the necessity of our mortality is an essential pre-requisite to seeing the world clearly.
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24 year old Nietzsche lecture on education embodying MCC's hopes:
"What I dare to hope for from the future is revitalization, renewal, and purification of the German spirit, so all-encompassing that these institutions will be largely reborn from that spirit as well...
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Philosophy grad student wears t-shirt to class. Poli Sci grad student wears a coat and tie.
When asked why the philosophy guy wore a t-shirt, he said: because clothing is conventional.
When the poli sci guy is asked why he wore a coat, he said: because clothing is conventional.
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Maybe you would like to take one of our courses:
Courses available on:
Understanding Modern Liberty
Nationalism vs Globalism
Introduction to Literature
Homer's Iliad
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A way into thinking about the Platonic Socrates is to note that he says different things to different people.
To Protagoras he says that virtue is a hedonistic calculus; to Meno he says that virtue is a dispensation from the gods.
These don't fit together at all--wat means?
The thought and question I have for today:
I’ll preface by saying my knowledge of Socrates and Plato comes from my public skewl education and I was affirmed by BAP CR episode where he trashes Socrates as hideous.
That said, however, this Costin fellow was in his book Selective
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Just finished Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the first time; one core theme is the re-working of the Ring of Gyges myth.
Literature with psychological depth can't help but touch on Platonic themes.
Did Stevenson read Plato? Idk. But brilliant men often understand the same things.
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I found the claim about Nietzsche adapting his political positions to his time especially helpful. When you see Nietzsche's Pan-European position at first, it could look suspect. But, a polis, etc, wasn't possible in his time or ours. The political has to follow the possible.
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"You wine sack, with a dog's eyes, with a deer's heart. Never once have you taken courage in your heart to arm with your people for battle, or go into ambuscade with the best of the Achaians."
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I opened up Moby Dick. Before the narration begins there are dozens of quotations about whales from the Bible, philosophers, scientists, and sailors.
At first glance, I was like, F, that looks boring, maybe I skip. But the payoff for closely reading it was incredible...
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Rightwing Twitter is filled with humor. It's one of the tells of RW people that they are smiling behind their keyboards. They are getting bigger, stoking the flame of their spirits, and building networks. They don't foster unity with everyone but they are finding their frens.
Rightwing Twitter is an absolutely humorless place. It’s one of the tells rightwing people and social media/Twitter are broken. Because good humor is a sign of conviviality and the basic benefit of the doubt that comes with healthy community spaces that foster dialogue and unity.
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I dream of a day when men emerge who can lift a stone that no two men alive today can lift, because of our weakness.
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Barbie Movie 🧵
I watched it a second time and some things clicked into place.
Gerwig grants that there is something natural about traditional women's roles BUT that nature can and should be improved upon.
We can become autonomously self-creating.
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@FischerKing64
Americans are living in parallel universes; the ground underneath their feet is the same, but what is in front of their eyes isn't. My wife is really perceptive, but a decade ago I had to do a lot to demonstrate that NO women's pro soccer player can play on ANY pro men's team.
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MCC is making waves!
We are starting a Labor Day Relaunch tomorrow with a lecture on Diomedes' aristeia in books 5 and 6 of the Iliad.
Many more things are coming in September and beyond.
Check out the link in my bio for more information!
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Here is a new lecture on Book 9 of Homer's Iliad!
The Achaeans are on the back foot and they send an embassy to Achilles to try to bring him back to the fighting.
Achilles wonders if honor is good and what the purpose of a warrior's way of life is.
Link in bio! Yes.
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My lifting buddy has moved away. Very sad. He was a very powerful fren. He would say things like this between sets:
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"I knew this girl she put her spider web around me, it was terrible. She liked giving advice, so I say Diogenes says that the easiest thing to do is give advice--she thought it was a good thing!--but you can't give advice unless you know someone's abilities, background..."
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"There you have it, Montag. It didn't come from the Government. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship...technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time..."
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About to go to a city council meeting to find out if an institution that I'm a part of and deeply love will be forever destroyed or not.
Please send power.
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@Partisan_O
Wow. It is so sad to see a true American say on one hand, "everything is beautiful," and yet, on the other, suddenly see that his country is no longer beautiful. That is what he weeps for.
To the extent of our powers, we must work toward the beautiful America he sacrificed for.
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A new essay is out: "Great Books and the Right"
I discuss how it is that someone can read Homer / Nietzsche with some care and still agree with everything the NYT says.
Also: how I transformed from a great books libtard into a RW guy through friendship.
Link in bio!
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Martin has a new translation out on Jünger's "Internationalism"!
He is banned from twitter right now (or I can't find him) so it is up to us to help him spread this outstanding essay.
Check it out:
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Thank you to anyone who has ever listened to one our conversations or lectures; read any of our essays; retweeted or liked our tweets; replied to say that I don't know what I'm talking about; talked to me on the phone about the project...
MCC couldn't exist without you!
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There are more and more presuppositions quietly built into the single word "democracy" everyday.
Right now, democracy means something like: obsequious subservience to globalism, so that there can be deracination and forced rootlessness for all.
(this is being charitable, btw)
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It is an incredibly beautiful and temperate day today. Reading Plato on the porch. Yes.
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A huge advantage of reading a Platonic dialogue outloud with others is that it forces you ask: is Alcibiades' answer enthusiastic? annoyed? perplexed? curious? disengaged? Feeling like he has squirreled away?
It helps bring out the underlying psychological drama taking place.
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I just got hold of a cool book edited by Arthur Milikh, the director for the Claremont Center for the American Way of Life,
@CenterForAWL
called Up From Conservatism.
I plan to make a 🧵 on each chapter. Here is a thread on Michael Anton's "The Pessimistic Case for the Future."
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I think that I met a mystic yesterday.
An oldish guy was sitting in his truck and asked if he could use my phone*. He had a good countenance so I offered it. He was visiting his daughter but ran into car trouble.
He told 2 stories and made one exhortation.
*flip phone 💪
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😢 A sign that my soul is scholarly and not philosophic:
"In a strictly philosophic conversation, no names will occur. Does that make sense?"
--Leo Strauss 1961 Republic course
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To celebrate the 4th of July here are some of the best recent books on American politics by people who love America and want to make it better:
Tom West, The Political Theory of the American Founding
Angelo Codevilla, The Rise and Fall of America Among Nations
@realJeremyCarl
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This argument assumes that the conditions that produce mass literacy are the same conditions that produce true genius...there might be an inverse effect.
It turns out that "Bayesian priors" have egalitarianism baked into them.
Quality over quantity--always.
This is obviously true, and a litmus test for rationalism
Only in subjective fields like literature do we see the "best" people having lived long ago.
No one thinks the best athletes lived 50 years ago, we can see data showing that people are breaking records all the time.
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This is how I imagine most of you when we are interacting:
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"Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone MADE equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against."
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A couple of quick thoughts on T.S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent."
To put the core thesis tritely, but not altogether misleadingly: you aren't as interesting as you think you are.
The Muses are much more interesting!
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I know that this is a controversial take, but since this an anonymous X account, I'm going to say it: philosophy is better than poetry. Philosophy as a way life is the best life.
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MCC is rolling back out the Nationalism vs. Globalism course!
DM if you want to join the discussion group. Course begins again on March 20th.
Lectures on the structure of international politics, Schmitt vs. Kant, and Junger vs. Remarque are available.
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What are your favorite poems?
The only full book of poems I've ever read was a collection of William Blake's poems edited by Yeats. After reading a couple of Shakespeare and Longfellow poems lately, an interest to read more has crept up.
(excluding epic poems)
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When Ben Franklin was 16 he said that wealthy sons were sent to Harvard, "where, for want of a suitable Genius, they learn little more than to carry themselves handsomely, and enter a Room genteely..."
Harvard grads weren't smart but looked good; today they don't even look good!
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My Top Ten Philosophers
10) Rousseau
9) Nietzsche
8) Aristotle
7) Plato
6) Plato
5) Plato
4) Plato
3) Plato
2) Plato
1) Plato
My Top Ten Philosophers
(with a focus on practical philosophy)
10) MacIntyre
9) Gadamer
8) Scruton
7) Shaftesbury
6) Montaigne
5) Hegel
4) Hume
3) Aquinas
2) Plato
1) Aristotle
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I talked to a smart normie guy who reads a lot of Plato and really takes all of the surface messages to heart. I.e., we can access the Forms and the Good; the myth of recollection is literally true; no tension between the good man and the good citizen. It was very beautiful.
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Here are some introductory thoughts on Plato's manner of writing and how to approach reading his dialogues.
Link in bio.
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🧵 On ancient vs. contemporary writing
Imagine what writing would have been like in the ancient world. The first thing we would have to notice, is that it would be rare. Literacy was not widespread and so writers were writing to the few and not the many.
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My friend Phocaean returns with an essay that succinctly contrasts a Platonic approach to philosophy (dialectics) with Enlightenment and Nietzschean approaches (appeals).
He also recorded it!
Link in bio :)
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I will say more about this soon but after reading Beowulf for the first time in a long time, I think that he is the Christian Vitalist fusion incarnate.
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Nothing gold can stay.
Many thanks for the well wishes!
It is time to build an institution from the ground up by our guys and for our guys to help populate a powerful galaxy of parallel institutions that will participate in the reconquista of the western mind and world. Yes.
About to go to a city council meeting to find out if an institution that I'm a part of and deeply love will be forever destroyed or not.
Please send power.
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@CosmistRussian
All you have to do is watch Trump give a speech at a rally. He is extremely entertaining and the people love him. Compare kamabla. She has canned lines where the people have to clap after every other sentence. Trump listeners clap and cheer when they feel genuine enthusiasm.
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@ZaleskiLuke
Rightwing Twitter is filled with humor. It's one of the tells of RW people that they are smiling behind their keyboards. They are getting bigger, stoking the flame of their spirits, and building networks. They don't foster unity with everyone but they are finding their frens.
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Here is a new lecture on Book 10 of Homer's Iliad!
I discuss the authenticity question (yes Homer wrote book 10), Achaean friendship, and poor Dolon's mad hopes to win Achilles' horses.
Link in bio. Yes.
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Are the Zoomers okay?
I interviewed a few this week and without prompting I'm hearing things like:
-I've never gone on a date
-Sometimes I don't finish everything I need to because I love youtube
-I don't really want to work in education
-30 min rant on how to play Kriegsspiel
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What are the downsides to having more fire in your life? Candles, fire pits, or especially a hearth?
Hawthorne says the flame brings us together and much of our fake and simulated conversation stems from not being accustomed to regular conversations and pauses around the flame.
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Recovering philosophy and recovering the dangerousness of philosophy are one and the same.
Yes.
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Achilles' son's name is Neoptolemus, which means something like new warrior.
Odysseus' son's name is Telemachus, which means something like far from battle.
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We did it!
1014 human beings have signed up.
I am filled with gratitude for all of my frens who have helped make this possible through sharing our work and for teaching me good things. Thank you.
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In a sense, we might say that civilization conditions us into forgetting the harshness that is required to secure and maintain the goods that only civilization at its peak can bring.
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