“This, then, is our task. We men of the Western Culture are, with our historical sense, an exception and not a rule. World-history is our world picture and not all mankind's. Indian and Classical man formed no image of a world in progress, and perhaps when in due course the civilization of the West is extinguished, there will never again be a Culture and a human type in which "world-history" is so potent a form of the waking consciousness.”
— Spengler
— Spengler
“I teach the No to all that makes weak—that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.”
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
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Secret History Part 8: Death by Bureaucracy — Professor Jiang Xueqin
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Secret History Part 9: The Theory of Everything — Professor Jiang Xueqin
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Secret History Part 9: The Theory of Everything — Professor Jiang Xueqin
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Secret History Part 10: The Conspiracy of Evil — Professor Jiang Xueqin
“The materialist himself is on this point an idealist. He too, without wishing or desiring it, has made his views dependent upon his wishes. In fact all our finest minds without exception have bowed down reverently before the picture of the Classical, abdicating in this one instance alone their function of unrestricted criticism. The freedom and power of Classical research are always hindered, and its data obscured, by a certain almost religious awe. In all history there is no analogous case of one Culture making a passionate cult of the memory of another. Our devotion is evidenced yet again in the fact that since the Renaissance, a thousand years of history have been undervalued so that an ideal "Middle" Age may serve as a link between ourselves and antiquity. We Westerners have sacrificed on the Classical altar the purity and independence of our art, for we have not dared to create without a side-glance at the "sublime exemplar." We have projected our own deepest spiritual needs and feelings onto the Classical picture. Some day a gifted psychologist will deal with this most fateful illusion and tell us the story of the "Classical" that we have so consistently reverenced since the days of Gothic. Few theses would be more helpful for the understanding of the Western soul from Otto Ill, the first victim of the South, to Nietzsche, the last.”
— Spengler
— Spengler
"Science is not about discovering reality, it’s about reinventing reality in a way that it serves power."
Forwarded from Old North State (Tisk Tisk)
In traditional societies there’s no “retirement.”
In the Old South when folks grew too old for labor they spent their days with grandchildren, gardening, cooking, telling stories etc.
They weren’t off enjoying being childless, they were still valuable family members.
In the Old South when folks grew too old for labor they spent their days with grandchildren, gardening, cooking, telling stories etc.
They weren’t off enjoying being childless, they were still valuable family members.
“There is nothing in the understanding which has not come from the senses, except the understanding itself, or the one who understands.”
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz