“And last or next to last of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.” -E. Bishop, One Art ImageImageImageImage
“Practice losing harder, losing faster. Places and names and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster.” ImageImageImageImage
“I lost two cities once. Lovely ones. And vaster some realms I owned. Two rivers and a continent. I miss them. But it wasn’t a disaster.” Image
“Even losing you. A joking voice. A gesture I loved. I shant have lied. It’s evident. ImageImage
The art of losing’s not too hard to master. Though it may look like. Write it like. Disaster.” Image

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Jul 17
🧵I think there are insights into our current situation which can be very useful from
this particular essay titled Power of the Powerless.

I’ve quoted later parts of it often, but now I want to focus on the earlier sections where he explains why what they experienced and what I believe we are also, isn’t a dictatorship or even really communism or fascism, but rather something else. Something unique to modernity but also requiring a very different tactic to defeat…
Here is a link to the essay. I’ll be quoting from it and also trying to, later in this thread, summarize its nature. In order to defeat an enemy we must first be able to understand what it actually is. hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the…
Angelo Codevilla before he died a few years ago also wrote an essay which I’m
reminded of whenever I read this piece. The key to understanding what we face I believe is understanding the nature of ideology and the way it actually, unique to the circumstance described by Havel but also warned by Havel, relates to power in what he called a “post totalitarian system.” He did not mean after a totalitarian period. I’ll be sharing the Codevilla Essay as well titled “Revolution 2020.”
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Jan 19
Hate is an emotion.

No laws should ever dictate emotion. Learning how to regulate one’s emotional outbursts is not the same thing as attempting to regulate another being’s emotions.

We are not livestock.

SEL is a form of socialist realism, a philosophy which views
the mere idea of individualism as “zoological.”

It is NOT merely an artistic aesthetic or style of literature. It is a philosophy and cornerstone of Stalinist and Maoist theology.
It’s premise is that morality is determined not from within but from the outside and not by wisdom but by the state - specifically by the Party.
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Oct 13, 2023
#WarOnMemory

It is said, by many, that in part the justification for Jew hate can be found in the writings and brilliance of people like Nietzsche. However this, just like every justification by intellectuals to pseudo intellectuals and their pawns is not only shallow, but false
What I find remarkable as of late is how many justifications often cite, adopt, even claim ideas and language and declarations that are uniquely part of jewish wisdom and spirit, preserved by my people for millennia or - bastardizations of non Jewish but thoughtful, wise, brilliant
and complex but without any hatred or even, what is worse than hate, contempt for my people (and therefore, since I am inseparably Jewish both in truth and according to those whose passion for my people likes only in my death or annihilation- I don’t only mean Hamas here) is also treated with
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Oct 7, 2023
Ritual power is transformative. We tend to apply a positive to the word transformative…

Masking changes someone. The extent to which, if we keep attempting to understand purely rationally, is like trying to understand why touch, music, prayer, hearing laughter and so on can stir the human spirit.

The literalists may literally kill us all.


That’s fundamentally what my piece was about. Never flat out stated this before. It’s kinda a rule one shouldn’t. Right now - it’s a rule I think I had to break.

Masking changes human beings. Full stop. The why doesn’t exist anymore. The days never did matter. It’s truly heartbreaking.

See Merloo, Rape of the Mind.
@jeffreyatucker In other words - masking destroys and diminishes the human capacity for something you can never describe or prove with peer review or even the scientific method:

Awe.
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Jun 13, 2023
🧵The rebirth of SocRealism and the fall of the hope of Tamizdat.

I am beginning to keenly realize that this slow poisoning of the very things that ended the tyranny of the Soviet Union and it’s mission men and women around the world, began three quarters of a century ago and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
THE PURPOSE OF THE CREATION
This is not the only happy turn of phrase by Stalin which the author of the Bible might envy. The specific teleology of Marxist thought consists in leading all concepts and objects to the Purpose, referring them all to the Purpose and defining them all… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Jun 13, 2023
I just remembered how Russian artists couldn’t play music in NYC, and how the Russian Tea Room was boycotted, hell people lamented the name “st. Petersburg” in the state I’m in now….

People encouraged the bigotry of Russians in NYC as easily and with as much smug dedication
as they did the term “anti-vax.”

We keep having our president and nearly ever legacy media and new media say the danger is on the right or white supremacy or transphobia or or or…no.

The problem is how young people are encouraged to become bigot, racists, hell - they were… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
laugh at the thought of the unvaccinated dying.

What the fuck did they think would happen?

They knew.

It’s enough to make me think they don’t just want us to be killed, they want us killing each other.

Listen to Biden’s rhetoric and the rhetoric on MSNBC, FOX - the way… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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