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ahmed

@pashadelics

6 months

I fear not earthly armaments but the wroth of God.

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ahmed

@pashadelics

5 months

We need to run experiments where a member of every race gets fed an American diet of corn and beef just to see who gets the biggest.

VB Knives

@Empty_America

5 months

Bear Grylls is a rich guy who is into meat-based diets. His son doesn't look British at all, he looks like a typical "corn fed" linebacker kid from Nebraska. Height and facial features aren't necessarily genetic in the way you would think.

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@pashadelics

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Not only will you die but you will be forgotten like no other generation.

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@bryan_johnson

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We may be the first generation to not die.

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@pashadelics

1 year

Do you ever stay up late at night and think about the misallocation of human labour - collectively billions of hours are spent playing video games when those hours could have been put into building galactic pyramids. We don’t know what to do with ourselves anymore.

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@pashadelics

3 months

Japanese low-rise furniture should be the norm. Maybe include the Middle Eastern divan sofas. The ultimate home living.

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ahmed

@pashadelics

3 months

Intelligence really is a poor measure for someone’s agency. Courage is the only relevant metric. And few of the intelligent have the courage to make their intelligence mean something.

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@pashadelics

2 years

We suspended business operations in Istanbul and turned our building into an aid centre, purchasing supplies (winter clothes, food, water, baby stuff etc) to send it to the epicentre of the earthquake in south-eastern Turkey. I'll be sharing a fundraise link soon for donations.

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@pashadelics

1 year

The most unattractive thing in our generation has to be the dislike of/ambivalence towards children.

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@pashadelics

1 year

It’s pointless to talk about reviving Islamic civilisation because you cannot revive a defunct material existence. Islamic civilisation must be built anew, with its structure supported by some of the older salvaged bricks and scraps, but most bricks newly fashioned for purpose.

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@pashadelics

2 years

Most countries have to squeeze their population into the grinder of one megacity to produce economic growth. America's largest city is NYC at 9mln, then LA at 4mln. Every other city is below that. Its economic prospects are spread across these cities. True imperial status.

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@pashadelics

6 months

Concern over the politics of lesser powers when the imperial hegemon is still projecting force in the region is pointless. Nothing will ever happen, until the imperial power recedes and leaves the space open to true chaos. Then something may happen.

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@pashadelics

1 year

No one talks about how one of the consequences of de-industrialisation will re-incentive mass slave labour.

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ahmed

@pashadelics

2 years

The greatest argument against 19-20th century political trends like nationalism is that after all the blood and struggle everyone just turned around and became garden variety American liberals in their worldview and lifestyle.

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@pashadelics

5 months

Fertility rates have nothing to do with economic circumstances. It’s purely cultural. The same people saying raising children is too hard because housing is expensive forget their recent peasant ancestors were raising families of a dozen +in the middle of war and famine.

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ahmed

@pashadelics

1 year

Now on Post Apathy: Writing & the Origin of Ideas Islamdom suffers from civilisational bankruptcy. We must write our way out.

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@pashadelics

3 months

Mimar Sinan is arguably one of history’s greatest architects. Doesn’t get anywhere near the recognition he deserves, not just for what he built personally (and not limited to mosques but a wide range of public infrastructure), but how his style dominated everything after him.

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@blown_through

3 months

Frank Lloyd Wright: "Two architects have come on this earth. The first one is the Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan and the other one is myself."

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@pashadelics

11 months

Your regular reminder that the post-war economic boom is a demographic ponzi scheme. Once population growth slows worldwide we’re in for a world of trouble and concepts like GDP and even “long term growth” are going to be thrown out the window.

More Births

@MoreBirths

11 months

An astonishing paper this week finds that population explains *virtually all* of the difference in GDP growth in advanced economies over the last 30 years! "From 1998 to 2019, Japan has grown slightly faster than the U.S. in terms of per working-age adult." 🧵, please share!

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@pashadelics

6 months

What’s interesting about nearly every radical movement is that the means are full of blood and iron but the ends usually envision high speed trains, a welfare state, a relatively technocratic govt, etc.

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@pashadelics

4 months

There are two groups: the first dedicated to the preservation of their dying tribes, the second dedicated to the creation of new tribes. The 21st century is a great gauntlet through which the former will fail and die off. The latter will inherit (what’s left of) the Earth.

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@pashadelics

1 year

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@pashadelics

6 months

A culture that indulges in too much irreverence is a culture on the path to ruin. Reverence for the sacred is recognition of the sovereign centre from which all things emanate.

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@pashadelics

10 days

The worst part about Elon taking over Twitter (after the rebrand) is that a horde of people from developing economies are now trying to earn $200 a month by getting socially destructive tweets to go viral for aging westerners.

Murtaza Hussain

@MazMHussain

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According to this analysis the account @EuropeInvasionn , which is focused on promoting videos and other content warning of an immigrant and Muslim invasion of Europe, is being operated by "two Turkish entrepreneurs in Dubai."

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ahmed

@pashadelics

2 years

Post Apathy is back in 2023

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ahmed

@pashadelics

7 months

Observe what’s going on in the region. Proxy wars, deals for what is essentially soft sovereignty towns and coasts, and the subtle undermining of what has only existed on paper for most of MENA/Africa (the nation state).

Ragıp Soylu

@ragipsoylu

7 months

WOW, it is real: UAE will pay $35bn to Egypt to buy the town of Ras el-Hekma on its northern coast, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly announced on Friday after weeks of speculations

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@pashadelics

1 year

The reason why American culture continues to be so generative and increases its global influence is due to a secret that oftentimes only Americans seem to understand: that culture does not emerge ex nihilo but is consciously incubated by the few then distributed to the many.

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@pashadelics

2 years

The situation in 1500 before the advent of the European powers was pretty astonishing. Apart from East Asia and Europe, Islamic empires controlled *most* of the known world. The Portuguese went from Casablance to Aceh and found Muslims. Must've been really annoying.

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ahmed

@pashadelics

2 months

Normalise forming secret societies with your friends to infiltrate and wield power over the greatest cities on Earth and from there drive the material development of wider civilisation.

Giga Based Dad

@GigaBasedDad

2 months

Yes

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ahmed

@pashadelics

1 year

Islamic futurism will only happen when the final defeat in 1918 is accepted and a new class of individuals rise to convert the system from within.

VB Knives

@Empty_America

1 year

I'm always respectful of Muslim mutuals because I really do think that a form of Islamic futurism is *one of* the more plausible escapes from humanity's modernist tail spin. In reality, several such approaches will run in parallel and we will see what happens!

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@pashadelics

6 months

2030s will be the true years of upheaval. Mass boomer die off. Clear failure to secure succession of the order they inherited from the war generations. We will have to rebuild many systems from scratch.

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@pashadelics

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ahmed

@pashadelics

2 years

One thing that’s been suppressed from the common memory is how common famines were and how many people were wiped out by them. A peasant who lived a full life would have seen a few famines in his lifetime on average.

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ahmed

@pashadelics

1 year

Bir kıza gülümsedikten sonra ülkeden sınır dışı edildim.

tuğçe

@tugceyimdir

1 year

bugün kafede otururken göz göze geldiğim bir kıza tebessüm ettim, tekrar göz göze geldik tekrar tebessüm ettim. sonra yanıma gelerek sarıldı ve ağlamaya başladı. “hayatımın en kötü gününü geçiriyorum ve senin tebessümün bana çok iyi geldi.” dedi. şimdi saatlerce tavana bakacağım.

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@pashadelics

1 year

The purpose of unfettered migration isn't to increase national GDP but to keep the housing market afloat as populations, minus immigration, should start to decrease and actually make housing plentiful. But housing is an investment asset for the older generation.

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ahmed

@pashadelics

8 months

Too many Americans (+some Brits) gleeful about swathes of manufacturing traditions of knowledge about to be wiped out in humanity’s second great industrial metropol. Knowledge Anglos don’t have/can’t replace. German deindustrialisation is another step on the path to a Dark Age.

Holger Zschaepitz

@Schuldensuehner

8 months

Good Morning back from Germany which faces a painful reality: Its days as an industrial superpower are coming to an end. As pol paralysis grips Berlin, energy crisis was final blow for a growing number of manufacturers. German comps pay some of highest electricity prices in EU.

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@pashadelics

1 year

Shame is the most important lost social technology of our time.

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@pashadelics

2 months

Reading Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple, published in 2003. He writes with extreme distaste about the poor English obsession with tattoos. I wonder what he thinks about how tattoos have become ubiquitous among the middle classes of western societies.

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@pashadelics

3 months

One of the biggest reasons for cultural stagnation is probably the Striver mind virus. Instead of aspiring to leisure, everyone aspires to (fake) productivity. This creates cognitive overload with diminishing returns on productivity until “productivity” cripples production.

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@pashadelics

2 years

It is a union of productive cities, a massive internal market, natural resources like agriculture, energy, minerals, etc that aren't in the cities. Most states today are really just city-states. If you possess get multiple productive centres, you're an empire.

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@pashadelics

7 months

The Americans are right about iced water. It's insane how luxurious a glass of iced water is against pretty much any other beverage. You could probably radically reduce soft drink consumption by providing widespread iced water. Room temperature water has no body.

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@pashadelics

7 months

The entire 'Islamic finance' industry is misguided because it put the cart before the horse. Capital surplus is produced after a stable and productive agricultural and industrial manufacturing sectors are established.

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@pashadelics

6 months

There is no education except the classical education which instructs us in the wisdom of the ancients. Wisdom was traded for knowledge, knowledge for information, and information for data. Everyone is unmoored from history, and history is creeping up on us with a great revenge.

ahmed

@pashadelics

6 months

A culture that indulges in too much irreverence is a culture on the path to ruin. Reverence for the sacred is recognition of the sovereign centre from which all things emanate.

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@pashadelics

8 months

This is getting dunked on but these buildings, the “skyline”, and the general atmosphere they create on the ground are objectively ugly. If you want to construct skyscrapers, they should be like America’s neo-gothic or art deco.

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@ClarkeMicah

8 months

This is now London, a pastiche Manhattan quite unrelated to the country in which it stands.

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@pashadelics

4 months

I remain amazed at how many people fundamentally do not understand that in order for good things to exist in this world, bad things must be terminated with prejudice and without hesitation.

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@pashadelics

1 year

Nigh on two centuries and so many have yet to come to terms with the Industrial Revolution and its consequences. There is a sneaking hope that we are in a bad dream, that we will wake one day to the idealised world of yesterday pure and pristine as in our minds.

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@pashadelics

7 months

Digital records will be more ephemeral than paper records. Ours will be a ‘dark age’ to future historians.

Trone L. Dowd

@theloniusly

7 months

Word on the street is they're deleting the @vice website. This means that as of later this week, all three publications where I accrued thousands of bylines since the very start of my career will no longer have an online presence.

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@pashadelics

6 months

Abolish all pensions. Force families to do long term planning so parents can be supported in old age by their own children and their own savings, not by strangers on the other side of the country.

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@pashadelics

5 months

One of the most important essays on political economy ever written and largely ignored as it was published in the heydays of the spread of American hegemony. 30 years later, easy to see *where* things went wrong. And maybe.. how to fix them.

How the World Works

Americans persist in thinking that Adam Smith's rules for free trade are the only legitimate ones. But today's fastest-growing economies are using a very different set of rules. Once, we knew...

www.theatlantic.com

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ahmed

@pashadelics

13 days

Interesting tweets considering where we are at this stage.

Hasan Spiker

@RealHasanSpiker

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When will it finally dawn on us that the dominance of the West with its Dajjālism is an exigency of eschatology, not a Muslim failure to "make progress."

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@pashadelics

1 year

One of the few things that triggers my apathy is the transformation of the Hajj into religious consumption tourism experience. But history shows that nowhere is too holy to be corrupted — and this corruption eventually destroys itself and becomes a warning to later generations.

M. Nolan Gray

@mnolangray

1 year

Not to sound like a NIMBY, but I'm forever aghast at the Clock Tower development—how could something so garish be allowed to overwhelm such an important spiritual site? It looks like it a tacky Vegas Strip hotel.

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@pashadelics

4 months

British diplomacy could be summed up as, ‘make them feel like they’re getting something, but actually give nothing and take everything.’ Good diplomacy is robbing someone and making them feel like it was a pleasant experience.

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@pashadelics

7 months

People hate the 9-5 because they think it's the reason their lives are uninteresting. The truth is it's often the most interesting thing about a person. 40 hour work weeks are an absolute luxury by world historical standards. If you're not making the most of it, it's on you.

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@pashadelics

8 months

@nosilverv They mocked him because he was right.

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@pashadelics

1 year

Most top third world institutions of learning implicitly exist solely to provide human capital for America. This wasn’t the intention at their founding, but that in the long run incentives to escape non-functional institutions overcomes the foolhardy desire to fix them.

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@pashadelics

7 months

albion post imperio

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@pashadelics

5 months

The great tragedy of the Levantine peoples is that they have a very strong culture for entrepreneurship but tyrannical/divided states. A strong, stable state would have provided the stability and security for strong markets, and the land and people would have flourished.

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@pashadelics

6 months

Shaping reality with words is the rarest form of power. One man with a sentence can legislate law or stir a million-strong mob to shape the course of history. The machine may shape our material environment, but the word forms the nomos around it.

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@pashadelics

2 years

Morocco isn't that impressive in terms of GDP/PPP, with most of the Arab world (including Iraq!) performing better. However, Morocco has none of the political instability of the Arab republics, and can sustain industrialisation over longer periods:

Samo Burja

@SamoBurja

2 years

Over the last 25 years, Morocco’s GDP per capita growth has quietly outperformed every one of its regional neighbors in Africa and Europe. King Mohammed VI is guiding Morocco towards an industrial economy. Read the new Brief from @bismarckanlys here 1/n

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@pashadelics

5 months

My hot take wrt policies to boost fertility is the stick is more likely to work than the carrot, but since the former is culturally and politically unimaginable we’re going to see population decline until the point it’s no longer unimaginable but necessary.

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@pashadelics

5 months

A reminder that when our Lee Kuan Yew arrives on the Thames to expropriate 11 million boomers, the first words he will utter are ‘houses are for living in, not for speculation’

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@pashadelics

10 months

Charlie Munger, Henry Kissinger, and god knows who else dying in rapid succession... the winds are shifting. Imagine a world populated by only boomers onward. The 21st century is only beginning.

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@pashadelics

7 months

I no longer like the term ‘traditional architecture’ since what people really like is architecture made with natural materials and harmonious design, and what they hate in ‘modernist architecture’ is the synthetic materials and purposefully violent lack of harmony.

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@pashadelics

1 year

Dwelling in Abraham's Shadow A short post on Eid al-Adha/Kurban Bayramı/Feast of the Sacrifice, exploring the metahistorical event of Abraham's sacrifice and what it means for humanity's moral assumptions.

Dwelling in Abraham's Shadow

On the origins of humanity's axial shift away from human sacrifice and why we celebrate it every year.

www.postapathy.com

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@pashadelics

1 year

Even if you wanted to you couldn’t. The past is a foreign country as strange to us as the Sumerians and Hittites. What remain are fragments, themselves understood through contemporary fashion; anti-capitalism, environmentalism, socialism, gender ideologies, etc. Irretrievable.

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ahmed

@pashadelics

6 months

My advice to young people is to never get involved in these things. Avoid the prose-waxing edgelords and the manifesto-wielding “reformers”. If you must act, act locally: find your niche, build a family, and develop mutual-support networks. Just build a moat to keep the BS out.

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@pashadelics

1 year

We may not like it but ours is the technological age. All questions of culture and philosophy are subordinated to technology. The great struggle of our time is whether Faith can subordinate technology to its purpose.

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@pashadelics

1 month

The more I read the more I come to understand that the great statesman is the true saint of God and his prime agent throughout history. The scholars and dervishes are supporting acts. The statesman takes centre stage.

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@pashadelics

5 months

Seems evident that markets are really good and that for markets to exist you need a strong state to provide security and rule of law (not subject to market mechanisms). East Asia understood this. The West is still busy debating Smith v Marx.

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@pashadelics

1 month

This self criticism genre is growing and in net is probably a good thing but what ticks people off more than what they feel is defeatism is that the criticism often comes from an undeserved perch.

Murtaza Hussain

@MazMHussain

1 month

Self-described Islamic countries comprise an identifiable bloc of civilizational losers characterized by internal political chaos and economic underdevelopment. This deserves a harsh and unsparing criticism but it is actually met with indefatigable hubris and defensiveness.

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@pashadelics

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I’m tired of tech narratives promising to democratise everything. I don’t want democracy. I want absolute and total control. I want a monopoly. I want to sit on top of a feudal structure. I want to gate-keep knowledge. Software should help me do that instead.

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ahmed

@pashadelics

6 months

Fukuyama was right. There is (currently) nothing beyond the liberal end of history. All the blood and suffering of religious, ethnic, and national causes aspires to nothing more than this.

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ahmed

@pashadelics

11 months

All technological development that defines the modern world was built circa 1870-1970. We’re coasting off that inheritance, and there’s no plan for what to do after demographic growth turns into a demographic slump.

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