Forwarded from Corpse World Monologues
Stop whatever you are doing and ask yourself.
What is it that you fear?
What is it that you fear?
Any piece of "art" in the contemporary which does not present a celebration of vitality and confidence for a male audience inherently seeks to destroy it. "Toxic masculinity" is the product of insecurity and not strength. You must distinguish between confidence and resignation. Between kindness and niceness. Between power and tyranny. One is the hollow cargo cult of the other. This is where you will prevent fruitless waste of energy on destructive behaviors that plague modern male life.
In this much the twink who turns into a hulking beast of muscle and yet is gentle and measured is much closer to Hercules than the "bro" whose only purpose of muscle is to abuse it. Power is constructive, it can never be wrought at the expense of another's life. Power is also freedom. Those who seek to make a difference between power and liberty fail to understand that slavery to passions is still slavery. True liberty can only stem from power, it can only stem from the idea that Every Man is a King.
In this much the twink who turns into a hulking beast of muscle and yet is gentle and measured is much closer to Hercules than the "bro" whose only purpose of muscle is to abuse it. Power is constructive, it can never be wrought at the expense of another's life. Power is also freedom. Those who seek to make a difference between power and liberty fail to understand that slavery to passions is still slavery. True liberty can only stem from power, it can only stem from the idea that Every Man is a King.
Forwarded from The Last Man Revival
"All health, beauty, intelligence, and social grace has been teased from a vast butcher’s yard of unbounded carnage, requiring incalculable eons of massacre to draw forth even the subtlest of advantages. This is not only a matter of the bloody grinding mills of selection, either, but also of the innumerable mutational abominations thrown up by the madness of chance, as it pursues its directionless path to some negligible preservable trait, and then — still further — of the unavowable horrors that ‘fitness’ (or sheer survival) itself predominantly entails. We are a minuscule sample of agonized matter, comprising genetic survival monsters, fished from a cosmic ocean of vile mutants, by a pitiless killing machine of infinite appetite. (This is still, perhaps, to put an irresponsibly positive spin on the story, but it should suffice for our purposes here.)" - Nick Land
On the Ultimate Concept I:
No matter how far down the road you go the beginning of each and every act, be it that of man or any other organism, is that of desire for Conquest.
Love is the singular most constructive form of Conquest, that of investment and insurance. An individual is conquered through sheer adoration, a man's heart is conquered through emotional investment. Where we see lack of sincerity we are soon disgusted and mark the type of love to be false. Flattery isn't ugly to us because motives are ulterior, it is ugly to use because it subverts the very essence of Love into dirty conquest. A lie is essentially told and no true investment exists.
The fruits of flattery are fickle and fleeting, the fruits of Love span centuries and generations.
Painting by Francesco HayezForwarded from 𝕋rue 𝔸narchy (Doubledex)
Having only contempt for every existing political party, and profound hatred for democracy, I feel the blackest gloom.
- T. S. Eliot
𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕖 𝔸𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕔𝕙𝕪
- T. S. Eliot
𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕖 𝔸𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕔𝕙𝕪
On legitimizing the illegitimate:
One should feel great tectonic disdain for the American Constitution; not for the reasons often heard but for the function that it provides. This is that it gives otherwise immoral or often monstrous legislation an air of legitimacy.Painting by Norman Rockwell
That a Yokel from Washington can with a stroke of his pen deem your rights null, turn you into a felon for possessing a substance, tool or appliance - that this is considered Constitutional should be the greatest comedic act of Greek theater.
On bad news & foul prophecies:
Competing with pessimism has become a titanic task in these days and it is almost impossible to go about the day-to-day without being struck by an onslaught of misery and hate. It should go without saying that these things are without a doubt pornography or maybe even worse. In pornography at the very least there is perversion of something good such as creating life but in misery and doom-saying there is no good and nothing good will come out of it.Matthew 15:18-20 - "But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”
Mind that you will never keep yourself clear of these thoughts though what you can do is make sure that this pornography of misery does not propagate.
Forwarded from Lazarus Symposium
“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Visibility is death:
With cloth conceal your face; with the fear of God conceal your soul. Hide yourself from prying eyes and become unpredictable. To the trustworthy compartmentalize, to the untrustworthy divert and avoid. Cover yourself and disappear because the unknown and unseen is difficult to attack.Faith & Force:
Every act of Good Will hinges on two things only: Faith, Force or Both. Faith that the act will not be ignored; Force to be secure in carrying out the act without vulnerability being exploited. In an ideal World, the former would be enough. As it isn't enough today then if you plan on doing Good in any significant capacity you must back it all up with a significant Force. Both Spiritually to withstand disappointment and Physically to withstand Evil.