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Athenian Stranger

5 months

Friends, My recording on Thucydides’ entire “archaeology” is completed and I’ve made it available for everyone because of how relevant it is for us today. It took me over a month of editing to ensure none of your time is wasted in listening. I hope you enjoy it. (Link below)

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Athenian Stranger

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9 months

🧵Nietzsche and Aristotle on friendship are helpful for understanding the title of this article and why it’s true for so many people: It speaks to how far down the road of “last man” most people are. In our era of radical *under-commitment* this title is true because… (1/7)

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One of the greatest professors I was fortunate enough to study philosophy from liked to provoke us by saying “Everything is in Homer — everything.” This Wednesday I’ll do a short space explaining much of what that means for philosophy in the West.

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2 years

@Cernovich 👀🍿 I’ve been waiting for this moment when the two darling pet projects of the Left collide: Muslims and LGBTQ fanatics

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Athenian Stranger

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2 years

Reading a book per week, eh? Will you also be taking a motorcycle tour through the Louvre? Always better to look at less and learn how to see more. Reading is not a hotdog eating contest. Nietzsche says that he is “a teacher of *slow* reading” for an extremely important reason.

Lex Fridman

@lexfridman

2 years

I'm reading a book a week in 2023. Classics, sci-fi, nonfiction, or anything people highly recommend. I'll keep adjusting the list. Start on Monday, done by Sunday. Might make lowkey videos of takeaways. If you want to read along, the current list is here:

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Every tenured professor I know who has a longstanding record of serious scholarship has told me privately that they would never even have been hired in the current environment of DEI insanity. Remember that when shills of the Left say it’s not as bad in academia as people say.

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Athenian Stranger

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6 months

@costin_eats Tate reading that 👀

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Athenian Stranger

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3 months

Many people are saying: “There’s no place for violence in America” I will translate that for you so you fully understand what those people mean. Here is the literal translation of it: “Don't fight the people who want you dead because they might get angry” It’s that simple.

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2 years

Notice the dates of all these publications. We are supposed to believe this is all coincidental — it most certainly is not:

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5 months

Based squirrels — that is all.

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3 months

🧵Richard Weaver on Robert E. Lee, responsibility, rights, duty, and discipline: “I would not represent Robert E Lee as a prophet, but as a man who stood close enough to the eternal truths to sometimes utter prophecy when he spoke. He was brought up in the old school… (1/5)

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Athenian Stranger

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1 year

If you commit to seriously reading just 10 great books, then you easily will know more than all the people who merely read the history and secondary literature on the various philosophers of the Western tradition — easily.

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9 months

… people want to keep all their options open for as long as possible. To be so radically risk-averse as most people are, they see this as a great boon. However, true love, true friendship, true family are all absolutely rooted in accepting and *embracing* great risks… (2/7)

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Athenian Stranger

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6 months

I completely understand that people want to read histories of thought and biographies of philosophers, but I promise you that in *every* single case: You will learn more reading 10 pages of a primary text than 10 volumes of the so-called best scholarship on it and its author.

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1 year

This is perhaps the most dishonest interpretation of Homer’s Odyssey I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying a lot when you consider the various fashionable attacks on the classics presently. For those with the eyes to see, Homer can teach…everything

sententiae antiquae

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1 year

"If we want young people to act like odysseus" 1. Lose 12 ships of men 2. Cey on the beach for 7 years 3. Kill 108 people qt home 4. Let son hang enslaved women 5. Get ready for war with own people 6. Go traveling until meeting people who mistake an oar for a windowing fan

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1 year

In 1903 William James wrote on the dangers of credentialism at Harvard in a brief essay entitled "The PhD Octopus." This is still very relevant today: "America is a nation rapidly drifting towards a state of things in which no man of science or letters... (1/3)

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Athenian Stranger

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The greatest reading list Nietzsche provides, in which he even has rare occasion to mildly criticize Goethe and Schopenhauer [!], is: —Montaigne —Larouchefoucald —La Bruyere —Fontenelle —Vauvenargues —Chamfort Nietzsche claims that… (1/4)

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1 year

What scholars think Ancient Greek warriors looked like vs what they actually looked like:

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1 year

Yesterday my thread about ancient warriors' bodies was RT'ed w/ fairly reasonable criticism. Since then I have been inundated with abuse from literal fascists for daring to challenge their ideas about ancient Greece. For any adults in the room here are the receipts🧵

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1 year

“Shall we so easily permit the children to listen to haphazard stories made up by haphazard people and take into their souls opinions that are on the whole opposite to those we imagine they ought to have when they’re full grown?” ~ Socrates, Republic 377B

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2 years

@yasmin_poole Are you suggesting he’s wrong about his claim or are you just outraged that accurate claims were made?

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Athenian Stranger

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1 year

What they What we think classicists vs actually and philosophers look like look like

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Athenian Stranger

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8 months

🧵 Learning the depths of Shakespeare on your own without the nonsense of what academia is doing to him. — Step 1 is to ALWAYS read the plays first, *without* the influence of other interpretations *I prefer the Pelican editions, as shown here next to Nietzsche 😏 (1/6)

Athenian Stranger

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8 months

You would be hard-pressed to ever find better guides into Shakespeare’s Roman plays than these two commentaries. And what makes the two of them in conjunction especially helpful is that they disagree on a few very significant points of interpretation:

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One of the most important themes in Nietzsche’s teaching that seldom gets discussed is how Modern man needs to re-learn how to believe in himself, to re-learn a sense of confidence in himself (not to say arrogance). I think about that often…

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At key points in his writings, Nietzsche uses the word “Irrenärtze” for “psychologists.” Taken literally, the word Irrenärtze means “doctors of errors.” That’s prescient for the field of psychology and the monstrosities it would subsequently sanction as “science” — like this guy:

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1 year

My favorite mug.

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I sat behind an exceptionally talented guy in an undergrad philosophy course on Shakespeare. One day, before class, he was reading a long letter from his dad. I’ll never forget the ending I saw: “Your mom and I love you and we’re more proud of you than you’ll ever truly know”

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This is the breezy, self-satisfied face of vulgar nihilism, wholly clueless to its origin in Machiavelli’s “effectual” truth. Smiling warmly, she’s saying: Since we can’t agree on truth, let’s merely agree on efficiency and never commit to any significant or demanding principles

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NPR CEO Katherine Maher tries to explain truth:

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I’ve always appreciated most about Nietzsche what academics seem to hate about him most— his hope for greatness amid nihilistic frauds who celebrate fashionable weakness as strength. Nietzsche flatly says to that: We only need 100 men to live what Plutarch teaches to fix it all.

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@Athens_Stranger

2 years

@washoecounty @monicaonairtalk Translation: “We have Epstein’ed the election”

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3 months

In 17th century America, the two most quoted authors, particularly in sermons, were: — Plutarch — Seneca Behind them were: — Plato — Cicero — Aristotle Now consider our own most quoted authors: Are they even from more than a few years ago?

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2 years

I had to say goodbye to my little friend today. It was very hard and I will miss him very much. Be sure to love them like everyday is their last

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2 years

At the very least, this should be fuel for giving exactly 0 time in debating anyone offering *any* of the various exculpatory explanations for people of color. White liberals are already teaching your kids this shit in school. It’s coming for you regardless, so where’s your line?

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2 years

Congratulations Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi! You did it!✊🏿◼️

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Fun fact: The very first occurrence of the phrase “law of nature” in Western literature is from Plato’s Laws where the Athenian Stranger notes it’s “a law laid down even in nature … not only of humans but of beasts” that the practice of homosexuality corrupts. ~ Laws 636b-c

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Homosexual behavior has been found in over 1,500 species. Homophobia is found in only one.

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Handwritten in-class essay exams like this, no notes, are the only way — every other approach to teaching in the humanities so that your students truly learn is inferior. Midterm and final like this, nothing else. All my best teachers did exactly this, you want this from yours

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Strauss's final exam on Machiavelli (Political Science 303, University of Chicago, Spring quarter 1952)

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4 months

Rescue old dogs and make their last days their best days. This old guy is so loving that I often can’t believe he’s real, much less that nobody wanted him and that he was going to be put down

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Always remember: We read the classics —Homer, Thucydides, Plutarch, Tacitus, Livy, etc— in order to learn greatness and strive towards their examples in our own lives. THAT, friends, is why so many academics today deliberately seek to diminish and outright malign the classics.

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Athenian Stranger

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2 years

The most virulent poison known to man is quite simple: guilt. The great majority of all mistakes belong firmly in the past. Nietzsche emphasizes “healthy forgetting” in the prevention and curing of resentment for a very good reason: The last man traffics first and last in guilt.

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This is completely false. The Left has thoroughly owned the corruption of the teaching of American history for many decades now, going back at least as far as Richard Hofstadter’s various writings. This absurdly ridiculous tweet is either poor jesting irony or flatly a lie

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In my day, the AP history curriculum was full of right-wing nonsense but then a cool teacher would slip the good students a copy of “Lies My Teacher Told Me” or “A People’s History of the United States.”

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@CostelloWilliam Caring what women think is a red flag

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It simply cannot be emphasized enough that the Enlightenment only *pretended* to overcome the Middle Ages. The Enlightenment attacks upon the Biblical tradition were ad hominem, persuasive only due to the great utility of Modern science. God was never refuted, merely laughed away

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1 year

Surveying our country today we can easily see that Col. Jessup was the hero here and *not* Lt. Kaffee. A man could proudly serve for a Col. Jessup, but never again any institution that holds up Lt. Kaffee as something honorable or even praiseworthy.

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4 months

👀 … 😂

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5 months

I see … so our political leaders have seen it fit to make the Gospels of the New Testament illegal…

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House passes bill to define alleging Jewish involvement in Christ’s crucifixion as antisemitism, with 320-91 majority. Follow: @AFpost

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3 years

Friends …

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1 year

In Plato’s Republic, Socrates says the protection of the children through education is by far the most important task of the rulers (415b-c). The first thing he does to begin to achieve that goal is cite Homer (Ody 1.351-2) —corruption is seen first in fashionable music (424b-c).

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11 months

…tweeting from Patagonia 👀

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This is certainly the future for overweight men and especially the youth. It’s of course exemplary of Zarathustra’s “last man” (blinking behind goggles!), but it’s *why* the last man lives longest and is hardest to overcome: his oblivion to greatness *from* & *through* technology

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Dad mode: Already found a great application of the #VisionPro , watching Avatar: The way of water while my daughter sleeps on me. I eventually adjusted the angle of the virtual screen so that I could easily recline and rest my head/neck. This feels like one of the premium

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3 years

This very Platonic diagram is helpful for a number of important reasons

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@Athens_Stranger

1 year

I’ve said this many times before, but it’s always worth repeating: Almost all of the problems and insanity we’re confronted by today could be solved by men taking fatherhood far more seriously.

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A helpful way of understanding the subtlety of nihilism in our lives is Nietzsche’s observation that the newspaper has replaced the morning prayer. He means that our addiction to the immediacy of the present —“news”— has uprooted us entirely from what bound us to our tradition.

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@JasonColavito There is no founding of any people in history that did not require the acts you’re sobbing about. Most relevant here for your queef is that the Native Americans did to each other exactly as the European settlers did to them. Your resentment is against the nature of man as man

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This is absolutely true. Understand this. Know this. Also, you will find that the philosophers most worth reading teach this about human nature. Namely, that to expect too much of reason in either faith or politics is itself entirely *unreasonable* Know what that means.

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Religions don’t spread via respectful debate. They don’t spread because of saccharine rhetoric or winsomeness. Only dying faiths pursue ecumenicalism. Faith spreads via fanaticism, sacrifice, and unhinged belief and militancy that mocks the very concept of reason.

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9 months

…precisely because the risks involved define the strength of the bonds that unite them, and it’s exactly that which our current “culture” seeks to wholly eliminate. Further, and this is where Aristotle on friendship is particularly helpful. Alejandro ( @engeignos ) had… (3/7)

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Don’t let the history, theology, and philosophy from 400-1600 be unknown to you. Nietzsche constantly references the Middle Ages in his Untimely Meditations, and Heidegger was an expert on Duns Scotus. We fail to know even ourselves when we fail to take such things seriously…

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1 year

Rescue old dogs. This is Nelson: he’s 15 and I rescued him last month. He’s the most loving little guy I’ve ever rescued. When you rescue the older ones, you can fill their last days with more love than they’ve had in their entire lives — exactly when they need it the most

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I joined Twitter/X in late 2020, despondent from the shitlibs in academia. I had exactly 0 expectations that my hope to share the study of philosophy at the highest level with others would gain any traction. But I found amazing friends, and now we outshine academia entirely🥂

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@ChivalryGuild Great point, as always — and it once again underscores Peterson’s default narcissism. In fact, Peterson’s lack of self-knowledge, particularly as an alleged expert in psychology, is so amazing that I’m convinced he simply and only says things that someone is paying him to say

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You should always be supplementing your readings with meticulous notes that are worthy of publication and could easily constitute book-length commentaries of your readings. That’s because there’s no such thing as reading — there is only becoming deeper by re-reading

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Do 100 yard sprints at least twice a week — I prefer 6-8 sets to complete failure after the gym. They were the best over-all transformation exercise I ever added to my workouts. That is all

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2 years

🧵 Hellenism in Late Modernity: Greece provided exemplars of classical learning throughout the medieval and Renaissance eras of western history. But in the 18th century antiquity, and ancient Greece in particular, became the highest measure of cultural achievement due to one man

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3 years

🧵 Something Jünger wrote that makes him so powerful, and why all the academic scribblers don’t and can’t understand *us* at all: “I have lived long enough among fighters to know that there is no such thing as a man without fear. Without fear even courage would be meaningless…

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@davidcrockettfa Everything about his writings shown is exemplary of academic gobbledygook. The majority of the multi-syllabic neologisms he uses to define what his writings will accomplish are themselves freighted with enormous biases which he takes as simply given, as simply true. All garbage.

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This is why the “Left” had to cancel comedy, and it explains all the politics of the so-called late-night “comedians.” If you simply allow the truth to be said it’s absolutely devastating to the “Left.” Presently, it only takes one good comedian to bring down the entire regime…

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Rogan on Drag Queen Story Hour: "If you're putting fake eyelashes on, and 10-inch heels, and you call yourself Miss Wanda, and you're wearing fishnets, and you tuck your dick into your butthole region and tape it down, it's a possibility you might be out of your fucking mind."

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Due to a certain very poorly chosen reading list of books to be read in 2023, I will provide a reading list of truly great books to be read in however much time is needed — and emphasis will be on fathers & sons reading them together. My substack will touch on them throughout ’23

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If you choose wisely, you only need about 10 or 12 books to sustain you for the entirety of your life, providing more than enough depth of thought. That’s why it’s fun to ask people which few they would choose if they were to be stuck on an island etc for the rest of their life.

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Calisthenics are exercises done with bodyweight, ie pull-ups and dips. The Greek used is instructive: kalistos (most beautful) + sthenos (strength) That’s helpful in adjusting your mindset to *want* to improve your physique. Most men can’t even do any such exercises properly.

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🧵 A few passages from *our* millennia-long tradition explaining “civilizational decline.” From explicit warnings against democracy, improperly educating the youth, corruption in Christianity, to technology and nihilism: —Plato —Aristotle —Machiavelli —Nietzsche —Husserl (1/7)

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The striking thing about civilizational decline is that nobody has a very good explanation for it.

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My full discussion on the Iliad is now available to all (link in comment). It’s longer than normal, but I think you’ll find it worth whatever time you give it because it’s probably unlike anything you’ve ever heard on Homer’s Iliad and, in particular, the shield of Achilles:

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Most of the foolish academics attacking @realchrisrufo couldn’t even save their own Twitter bios from pronouns for fear of being cancelled by their own students, fellow colleagues, and administrators. Yet they claim they can defend academia—that’s genuinely laughable.

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Martyrmade entirely fails to understand history or politics here which I correct in this thread: The *liberalizing* of Christianity defining much of the Modern Enlightenment was *a deliberate project* to emphasize God’s goodness but at the insane expense of God’s justice (1/5)

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A recent tweet asking what movie we feel is the most underrated inspired this thread. I loved Warrior, and it went mostly unnoticed in 2011. Despite appearances, it’s not at all about MMA — it’s about fathers and sons, failure and redemption. I’ll briefly explain why here (1/6)

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“I will join with him in no counsel, in no action. He cheated me and did me great harm. ..I hate his gifts. I hold him light as the piece of a splinter. Not if he gave me ten or twenty times as much as he posses now… And this would be my counsel to others also” ~ Iliad 9

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The weakness of many Christians today which they call their virtue is not reflective of the tradition of Christianity that sustained the West for millennia. Rather, it’s the influence of roughly 300 years of liberalism that subverted Christianity under the banner of “toleration.”

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The human race has two poles: Greek and barbarian. Greekness has two poles: Sparta and Athens —both are at their highest peak with regard to war and hence with regard to peace. Thus: —Greek and barbarian —War and peace —Sparta and Athens The Peloponnesian war reveals…(1/2)

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This is easily among the most important things Nietzsche teaches us, especially about reading: “Ultimately, people cannot get more out of things —including books— than they already know. You will not have an ear for something until experience has given you some headway into it.”

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I’ll discuss the philosophical origins of our current gynocracy in the West. The emphasis will be upon the Modern/Enlightenment political philosophers most influential in making Modern man effeminate while founding classical liberal democracy in the West.

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In general, we need to be far *more* elitist about who we refer to as a philosopher. Jacob Klein thought there had been only 12 philosophers, seven Greeks and five Germans. I think that’s about right

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🧵 Augustine on the weakness and cowardice of many Christians living amid wicked men: “Many Christians are, of course, weaker men [than those who should reform the wicked]: they live a married life; who have, or wish to have, children; and who have houses and families. … (1/5)

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You will learn more — a lifetime more! — by spending 4 months slowly & patiently reading one great book on your own than any college course that has a reading list of numerous great books. The teaching of *all* the great books is to learn how to look at less in order to see more.

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The Closing of the American Mind remains relevant, particularly given the ongoing student protests. Even and perhaps especially despite Bloom’s eloquence, the book is often misunderstood both by its advocates and its critics — that’s what I’ll discuss.

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“The socialists appeal to the Christian instincts, that is their most subtle piece of shrewdness” ~ Nietzsche (WP 765)

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Probably the worst corruption of Christianity in Modernity was the rhetorical emphasis in the Enlightenment of God’s goodness at the expense of God’s justice. Only through that corruption have liberals flown trannie flags in churches and defended black criminal & felons etc.

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I knew a guy who owned a small bookstore near a small great books college who became so interested in learning more about Nietzsche that he spent over a year learning basic German so he could read Nietzsche in the original German. It’s never too late to learn a new language.

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Meet Nelson, he’s 15 and desperately needed a home, having been abandoned by his owner. He’s mine now, and he’ll know love. Rescue old dogs. Life has been roughest on them, but you can fill their last days when it matters most with more than an entire lifetime of love *for them*

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It’s important to watch Pumping Iron to see those guys in the 70s training together in grungy gyms, emphasizing powerlifting and strength training exercises, few machines or silly exercises telling others they’re great— *brotherhood* with all lifters. I’ll do a space on this

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Homer begins the Odyssey by asking the muse to begin anywhere. The muse begins with man’s blame of the gods for the sufferings man himself caused. The examples are the destabilized families of Agamemnon and Odysseus from the prolonged war. This wasn’t wasted on Thucydides. (1/2)

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In the degeneracy of democracy in Plato’s Republic, Socrates says teachers begin to fear their students and imitate them as charmingly as possible to win their favor. We are seeing this happen in realtime presently in academia as professors pander to the woke mobs on Twitter etc

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Aristotle on why children should not be exposed to degeneracy: “…in our dealings with human beings we always like the first ones better. This is why one ought to make all base things foreign to the young, and especially those that involve vice or malice” ~Politics 1336b33-35

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Rescue old dogs if possible. You can make their last days their best days. Nelson is 15 and was going to be put down. I rescued him last month and he’s the most amazing dog I’ve rescued. He loves his ball & snuggling closely to sleep while I read. Rescue them and they rescue you.

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@CitizenFreePres Cyclists are the spiritual equivalents of women’s soccer

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@timjacobwise Setting aside how laughably dumb your tweet is (which we cannot), it is rivaled by the laughably arrogant and dumb (because so thoroughly contradictory) nonsense found here:

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@Athens_Stranger

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@DisgracedProp Conway Twitty: “That’s my job”

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If you force yourself to read slower, and then to re-read it all a second time — never in a rush — you will be truly amazed at how much more you’re able to see in less that gets said. I’ve spent over 3 months on just the first 15 pages of Zarathustra and learned…entire volumes

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Nietzsche’s teaching on history is complicated in its subtleties but it can be easily stated as follows: Human history is guided in the most definitive respects by the almost unheard efforts of small groups of spirited men, the ripple effect of which is truly world-historic.

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Please send power and maybe even a prayer for Nelson

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@Athens_Stranger

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One of the greatest obstacles to reading any of the great books is the way people get too caught up in the contemporary and fashionable commentaries on them. Reading the primary texts will always provide more insight than staying stuck in the commentaries and debates on them…

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Of all the examples Nietzsche could have used in his critique of Modernity, he singles out marriage. The reason for this is because he sees in “Modern marriage” the most important case of men deliberately choosing effeminacy —husbands surrendering to the opinions of their wives.

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New gym, almost perfect. Pure focus, very little distraction. (Limited a/c ensures only serious lifters and serious lifting taking place)

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It’s rightly said that “Science is a blind giant,” meaning that Modern science inherently does not know good or evil. Thus, science absolutely requires the knowledge of the humanities, esp. the Great Books. This man speaking is blind science thinking it has sight — he’s clueless.

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Yuval Noah Harari: we have no idea what to teach young people that will still be relevant in 20 years

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—Professors gleefully trashing the Right during their lectures —Male bosses tripping over each other to let unqualified female shitlibs run the program —Repeatedly told by white female bosses during every faculty meeting that whites are incapable of knowing what blacks experience

Revamped | Career & Workplace Development

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What experience in the workplace radicalized you?

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