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manic pixie art & culture historian | occasional (esoteric) political philosophy | e-gadfly👩🏽💻🚬🍸 | ☧ 🌊🏔️
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Enough with all this gender & election psyop stuff, my coolest mutuals & I will be niche Classics/philosophy/literature posting until morale improves (indefinitely)
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The mental health trick that ‘therapy’ won’t tell you is that you can just use your hyper-focus and manic tendencies as a source of inspiration & productivity rather than self-destruction. It’s called ‘locking in’ and many geniuses in history did it!
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The American cowboy is the only male-type since that has managed to capture the aura of the Medieval Knight
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@providenceluvr
Yeah this is why sometimes I’d seriously procrastinate on papers in academia, I needed the manic inspiration to strike me to make it really good… Same with reading big books, I can do it in a matter of days while barely even eating if I am obsessed (like Brothers Karamazov), but
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Philosophers who think like this are getting nowhere outside of their little academic bubbles. If you can’t argue something clearly without depending on verbose language, you’re a bad rhetorician & will never change the world.
If somebody called my writing “accessible” I think I’d kill myself
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Maybe the real ‘fascists’ were the friends we made along the way
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@alternativebyrd
Recognizing this/accepting it about myself was a game changer for me. It also prevents the type of obsession/mania that can lead to despair
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The reason I’m more active on Twitter now & supportive of the ‘Hegelian e-girls’ and other such movements is because I love the innovative idea of a female-centered space that discusses philosophy & culture and began in a truly grassroots manner with so many different
If you can’t have a sense of humor while discussing philosophy, you’re ngmi. Socratic dialogue is all about having fun with your interlocutors!
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My politics are whoever can ban weed & also legalize smoking tobacco indoors
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In the spirit of Byron, help me make a list of the most famous well-traveled, adventurous, & romantic leaders/writers/explorers in world history:
-Pausanias
-Herodotus
-Alcibiades
-Cyrus the Great
-Alexander the Great
-Julius Caesar
-Pliny the Elder
-St. Paul
-Egeria the pilgrim
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Can women autistically ‘mansplain’ cause they’re excited about a niche historical/philosophical interest, or is ‘mansplaining’ inherently male? (*not derogatory, I like all sorts of schizo explainers)
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@ssphinxe
@providenceluvr
These are my go-to solutions as well—that 2am idea delirium is real! But gotta make sure to really rest after the mania has passed
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I have no desire to talk to people who are black-pilled… Grow tf up and get offline, the world is still good and there are many things in life to enjoy! You can be critical without being a doomer
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The greatest thinkers are always at least a little eccentric/autistic & a bit lonely (even if they have charisma & friends!)—Plato’s philosopher, the Desert Fathers, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, etc. Yet, any successful regime needs social mores, and a virtuous sovereign who can
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The urge to self-dox just so people stop assuming shit about you… but I persist, for the sake of Great ideas and for all the schizo anons who came before me… 😔
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If you aren’t cooking your eggs in Kerrygold or craft butter that’s on you
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Amazon is showing me book recs from Spengler, Evola, and De Maistre… I am so cooked ☠️
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“Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?” - Herman Melville, Moby Dick
I think most men, whether consciously or unconsciously, are frustrated by never going on sea voyages.
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Many left-wing thinkers have what I like to call Nietzsche derangement syndrome
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Negroni (Apollonian) & Caipirinha (Dionysian) maxxing… It’s called balance 🥃🍹⚖️
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The relationship between friendship & philosophy is key, and needs to be better understood. Trusting someone’s intentions prior to jumping into a serious intellectual conversation makes discourse more productive and fun. For example, Plato’s Symposium demonstrates this nicely!
The replies reveal two things to me:
1) that a lot gets lost in misunderstanding, sometimes people read ‘condescension’ when there isn’t any intended, and get too hung up on the presumed insult
2) the importance of friendship and trusting the people you ‘philosophize’ with, so
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The best piece of mental health advice still is and always will be “just go outside”☀️🏔️🌊
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Hi Anna! I am curious if you’ve read Kojève? I’m trying to understand why you think that the girls in the gc talking about the value of authority are automatically ‘fascist’ or somehow ‘not into Hegel’? As a Christian/in the minority, I’ve found the gc to be full of differing and
i was added to the group chat for this group. A majority of the active members are either fascists or weirdly comfortable and relaxed with fascism. Their philosophy is just warmed over Žižek and i don’t think most of them have actually read Hegel
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Reminiscing about how my friend and I would show up hungover and sleep deprived to our Friday morning Ancient Greek class and still somehow translate on sight pretty well… In case you’re wondering, this is the Form of the Classics student, you need to be Symposium-maxxing!
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@myselfcoaching1
And have spiritual practices to ground you and orient you to things higher than your own obsessive psyche!
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I have never been to Russia but I used to have this recurring dream of taking the Moscow metro and being enamored by the station’s beauty, but never quite knowing where I was planning to get off…
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@providenceluvr
Male gynaecologists/female reproductive health professionals etc 🤢🤮 even back in the day, midwives were almost always women!
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As a collector of more than a few old maps & as the granddaughter of an ocean cartographer & land surveyor I will try not to feel personally attacked 😅 🗺️
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All this gender & ‘practical’ vs ‘passionate’ love discourse… Tells me that we need to force these people to read Anna Karenina (as a treatise & warning). ‘Love’ also needs to be understood in its different Greek senses—Eros, Philia, Storge, and Agape—all unique but related.
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Many are saying that belief in God is coming back in a HUGE way! We are so back etc
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I was peaceful, I was mostly a lurker… The Hegelian e-girls radicalized me and turned me into a poster 😞🫡
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In general, I think romanticism produces great works of literature & art but there’s also a maladaptive aspect to it in terms of existing well in society. A ‘Romantic’ can either accept this about themselves, or try to habituate themselves against it to live well ‘normally’.
@danieldohh
@signulll
Male or female, true romantics are few and far between these days—that’s partly why we have a lot of bad literature & art
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Angry sjws in my mentions like: 1) “uhh you shouldn’t romanticize mania, it is a disorder and can only harm you” 2) “Freud calls this sublimation/psychologists already help you do this”…Your own contradictions prove that the therapy industrial complex is broken and inconsistent.
The mental health trick that ‘therapy’ won’t tell you is that you can just use your hyper-focus and manic tendencies as a source of inspiration & productivity rather than self-destruction. It’s called ‘locking in’ and many geniuses in history did it!
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@_Messier_33
True, close in time to the Knight so I see them as related! American cowboy is this spirit living on in modern times—they have the combo of noblesse oblige & thumos which is increasingly rare
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If you’re paying attention, you’ll see that any effort from ANY political side to promote free inquiry towards objective Truth/the common good will be labeled as ‘fascist’ by morally relative anarchists. Predictable. Friends of all stripes, remember this principle of logic:
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If you recently followed me due to that one tweet, please know that:
-half of what I say on here is for fun/a joke
-I’ll talk to anyone EXCEPT nihilists and objective truth deniers. Unfollow now if this is you, because I am not your cup of tea & my tweets will upset you! 😇👋
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Platonist e-girl group chat, but there’s also an offshoot secret Straussian e-girl group chat
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Quizzical looks from the waitstaff last night cause we were loudly talking about the unification of Germany, Otto von Bismarck, and how WWI was a psyop for over an hour… 🤠
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@uncle_deluge
Ironically it went against the ancient Greek culture of xenia (guest-host relationship), which those same people claim to enjoy 😂 Hospitality has been a key virtue in every ancient indo-European civilization!
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Bring back victory odes for the Olympics/athletic competitions. Poetics & athletics are two sides of the same coin.
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Melancholic/emo cosmopolitan girly girls with working class small town/rural boys will complete the system of American Idealism, actually 🤔
lana del rey is so mad she's from new york. she wanna be a I-10 lot lizard so bad
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One of my favorite paintings ever! A couple of fun facts:
-It is Rembrandt’s only seascape & one of his largest works (!)
-It went missing after the famous robbery at the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in the 90s, for all we know it could be in some Chinese billionaire’s
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee ~ Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
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A vitalist religious futurism is the only way out of this mess… 🏔️🙏🚀
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If you can’t have a sense of humor while discussing philosophy, you’re ngmi. Socratic dialogue is all about having fun with your interlocutors!
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Some of my Classics-interested mutuals & I will be doing a space next Wed. at 7PM ET! We’ll discuss Alexander’s life, legends about his divinity, his death, the mystery of his body/tomb, and the aura (‘Great Man’) question. Listen in or come speak! 🏺🏛️🏇
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Superficial reading & misunderstanding of his arguments, then they cope by calling him a bad thinker when he’s the best one to teach them about secular modernity 🫠 (Many Christians cope too, when they should be responding to his criticisms as a challenge/wake up call)
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True. Very interesting dolphin imagery all over in Mycenaean & Minoan palace art. One example from Knossos Palace is this fresco… (dolphins were also found in Egyptian art of the period, & later we see them on Syracuse coinage along with their patron nymph Arethusa). What did
Dolphins were more important in antiquity than we can understand. Melville uncovers some of it but it could go even deeper than that.
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@morallawwithin
No because Christian revelation unfolds in History through Divine providence. You would not come up with the same morality if you lived in a pagan culture/had your mind wiped of history. Please learn literally anything about pre-Christian cultures… Typical Kantian rationality L
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‘Turkey’ vs ‘Türkiye’ name discourse is tired, real ones still call it Anatolia!
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Gender this, gender that. Why can’t the newest Twitter discourse ever be about the Sea Peoples’ attack in the Late Bronze Age??
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I am a lot like this acc’s namesake Lord Byron (sensitive cosmopolitan who is insane & unhinged about the ancient world & the Orient, thinks melancholic romanticism is a sweet treat)
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True. Good art is divinely inspired, almost feels like the artists were operating outside of themselves when making their masterpieces. This is impossible for AI art, which is why it feels soulless.
AI can never produce Art, because Art is the answer to a question you didn't ask, a satisfaction of a demand that is unconscious, the response to Art is "I did not know I wanted this" -- an AI gives you what you want, & what you are consciously aware of wanting is Mid.
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Not that I need to say this but, I am part of the convo/gc but do not identify as Hegelian as much as an interested reader of Hegel, Heidegger, Strauss, Kojève etc. from a Platonist/Christian perspective—but I just think it’s great that we have this space for dialectics &
The reason I’m more active on Twitter now & supportive of the ‘Hegelian e-girls’ and other such movements is because I love the innovative idea of a female-centered space that discusses philosophy & culture and began in a truly grassroots manner with so many different
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The replies reveal two things to me:
1) that a lot gets lost in misunderstanding, sometimes people read ‘condescension’ when there isn’t any intended, and get too hung up on the presumed insult
2) the importance of friendship and trusting the people you ‘philosophize’ with, so
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If you really spent ‘years learning’ you should be able to clearly state & defend your ideas/arguments without the need to resort to credentialism. This is why I enjoy anon twitter despite its flaws, your ideas need to stand for themselves and be challenged without fear—the true
Gate keeping is necessary bc some of us didn’t spend years learning/studying just to gjve handouts
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It’s called ‘manically writing schizo essays in your notes app,’ you wouldn’t understand it 😵💫
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*movie night*
“Let’s watch Gladiator”
“Again? We watched it a month ago!”
“Well I found the extended version…”
“Why are you like this? 😂”
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All of philosophy and discourse ultimately boils down to an argument between natural right and metaphysical universal human dignity. If you can’t trace your logic back to one or the other side, it is incoherent
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Real ‘aufheben’ as ‘evaporation & condensation of ideas’ vibes
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Haters don’t want you to know that Alexander the Great was a Hegelian synthesis of the East & West
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Many are asking, “Platonist/Straussian e-girl group chats when?” But what is the idea of the ‘e-girl’? And does the format of the ‘group chat’ attempt to categorize & historicize that which is ineffable & eternal? 🤔
Platonist e-girl group chat, but there’s also an offshoot secret Straussian e-girl group chat
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Every smart woman has considered a lobotomy at least once in her life
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@signulll
I have enough anecdotal evidence to think this isn’t true, but only for very few women (autistic?). You’re right otherwise
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A fascinating aspect of Dune is that while it is sci-fi/futuristic, it is also a great study of the ancient cults of heroes and divine kingship. For example, just as Alexander the Great’s visit to the oracle at Siwa legitimizes him as the son of Zeus-Ammon, Paul is legitimized by
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Alexander the Great space recorded ⬇️, if you missed it! We discussed history, military strategy, conspiracies/myth-making, philosophy, and the perennial Q of Greatness! Thanks co-host
@HellenicVibes
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@ChrisLangan6
@PriestIncitatus
@copticml
@MarcAnthonySalc
+ other speakers! 🏛️
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I thought more about this, and realized it’s also so repulsive to me because they lack the courage to stand for & defend anything that matters to them. A lack of vision for the world makes you a coward, not a ‘realist’!
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@aristeiagirl
He’s a horse-rider, an adventurer at the frontier of civilization, he has a sense of noblesse oblige, and protects women & children—it maps on almost perfectly! 🤠
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Classics students should NOT be dorky anxious nerds, they need to be fun and mysterious intellectuals. Aura is key, you need to embody Indiana Jones.
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The poll is now concluded (110 votes), and Heraclitus won by a huge margin, as I suspected. I was testing just how popular he is on this app compared to the other pre-Socratics, and seems clear it is a significant amount. A large part of this, I think, is largely due to
Testing something, the best pre-Socratic philosopher among these is:
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The range of likers here (Platonists, trad Caths, BAPists, Marxist-Leninists, abstract philosophers, MAGA communists, Classical libs etc) tells me that this is a position that can unite sane people against hippie anarchists who hate beauty—ball’s in your court now, ‘politicians’!
My politics are whoever can ban weed & also legalize smoking tobacco indoors
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Yet everyone (like me) who has actually been through what I am talking about is responding and saying they’ve realized this too and it transformed their lives. Really tells you that the sjws like to fight battles nobody asked them to.
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@danieldohh
@signulll
Male or female, true romantics are few and far between these days—that’s partly why we have a lot of bad literature & art
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This account welcomes all sorts of Alexander the Great truthers 🐎🏛️🤓
Haters don’t want you to know that Alexander the Great was a Hegelian synthesis of the East & West
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This account and my DMs are a safe space for SMART, funny, & sensitive young WOMEN!! Haters need not apply 🛡️⚔️
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@Anc_Aesthetics
Definitely related! Although, my thoughts on why the cowboy is the closest relative:
@aristeiagirl
He’s a horse-rider, an adventurer at the frontier of civilization, he has a sense of noblesse oblige, and protects women & children—it maps on almost perfectly! 🤠
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@uncle_deluge
A lot of ‘heliocentrists’ believe in an infinitely expanding universe & if they also think that Earth is probably the only planet with advanced life, ironically it might just mean the ancient geocentrists were right in a general sense about humans always been at the center of the
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floating on your back with the summer sun shining on your face is a moment of contact with the Infinite
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@PapistMelli
Our past is never an excuse for continued bad behavior, thank you for saying this! 🤍🕊️
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Ngl, people who make a single philosopher their ideology are setting themselves up for failure, even Hegel himself wanted to surpass ideologies. Hegelian as a process & method towards Truth/Absolute (as these girls are attempting) might just help y’all get there, but in general
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Latinos in my replies/QTs, please understand that I am not denying the importance of the vaqueros/gauchos! I’m pro all cowboy-types 🤠 Please chill lol
@trincherotw
Me gustan todos los tipos de ‘cowboys’ de las Américas, y yo se la importancia de los Mexicanos y los vaqueros/gauchos en la historia Americana (aunque no soy Mexicana/Latina…) ☺️ Creo que todos los tipos son como el caballero medieval!
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Testing something, the best pre-Socratic philosopher among these is:
Thales of Miletus
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Here’s a recording of this btw. We disagreed productively, shared thoughts re: ‘Christian futurism,’ including the Nietzsche & transhumanism questions (+I did go on some Classics tangents lol). It was so fun!
@LITVRGY
@heaveninterface
@HunterGlenn
thanks for your insights! 🔥
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@ForbiddenLindy
A lot of high Western art was thanks to the repressed homosexual, this is why most art sucks now
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🏺Another Classics poll: Who is your favorite Platonic interlocutor among these? Comment if other (it won’t let me add more), check later for results if you’re neutral! 🏺
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A certain type of woman who postures that she’s not ‘like the other girls’ by being too performatively serious and unfunny gives me the ick. I’m glad I’m like the other girls and have my own unique interests, human beings are mutually dependent creatures 😇
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I am never beating the reactionary allegations… (I am a vitalist religious futurist! I like technology!)
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Thought about posting a pic of The Ancient City by Coulanges to start the ‘niche Classics e-girl council’ but I imagined this gif as Twitter and retreated back slowly… 🫡
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Didn’t expect Aristophanes to win this! I thought either Glaucon (popularity of the Republic) or Callicles (given the ‘new scholarship’) would win… This goes to show the timelessness of yearner humor, good to know! 🫶🫡
🏺Another Classics poll: Who is your favorite Platonic interlocutor among these? Comment if other (it won’t let me add more), check later for results if you’re neutral! 🏺
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Recent antique store acquisition (original, Samuel John Neele, 19th century)
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trans.: “there can be no debate against one who denies principles”
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As Tolstoy highlights, Anna’s essential problem, like that of modern man’s, is the cheapening of Eros for instant gratification. Eros can be transformative through its combination with Storge (marriage), or through its elevation with Agape (Eros becomes a generative force for
People say simps are pathetic but Dante’s simping for Beatrice was the driving force behind Divina Commedia and we’re still talking about it 700 years later
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He’s also just hilarious & witty, I recommend reading! My favorite quote: “Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play” 💯 Fun vindicated, once again:
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Reminder: Join us this evening at 7PM ET to talk about Alexander’s life, mythic legacy, and the mysteries around his death/tomb. We’ll also discuss Greatness and different philosophical perspectives on this! If you’d like to be one of the speakers, DM me🏛️
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