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Mar 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I get benefit from Spengler but ultimately don’t recommend him to most. It takes a certain pedantry to like him

But the key lessons are both clear & more important than anything else I see: (1) that certain things are no longer possible & (2) the West is DIFFERENT
The first is a too much of a pill for many to swallow, so they won’t swallow it. We will get endless fix-alls, snake oil, magic potions and there will always be an excuse as to why [thing] did not work. Chasing symptoms is another eternally popular genre of “solutions”
2nd is a tough pill to swallow because we admire the past &want to see ourselves in ancients, &because we want to cling to the fantasies that any collection of white men can just conjure up a machine civ any time in the future, &there’s nothing unique about WESTERN huwhyte man
These are insurmountable obstacles to his work being widely embraced, beyond token nods

Candidly I think Oswald was so popular in interwar Germany only because they had just received the biggest splash of grim reality in human history to date, from the recent war & its aftermath

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Mar 6
I find Dune interesting. The world building is interesting. I even like some of the psychology he gets fixated upon. But an editor speeding things along and challenging him on some of his indulgences would have been better
Entire chapter: Gurney learns a bunch of shit the reader already knows, he scowls and plays a dumb song on balliset

Next chapter: Baron Harkonnen is still fat, still likes sex with boys

Next: Jessica thinks something to herself for the 10,000 time - it’s the sign of ADEE-ASH!
Yet I still enjoy Dune because it was so different and had a coherence to its vision
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Jan 14
Achilles -Iliad first half

First thing to know is that “honor” is a BARBARIC concept that gets slowly warped as a civ carries on, often getting blended with “duty” (seen in Rome, Victorian era)

Honor at its barbaric core revolves around insult to ur sense of self/integrity
Duty is an obligation related to an org/fam/social structure-it is to commit to thing beyond urself

A savage can have honor but duties are often alien to him. At the end of a civ, men can understand duties but honor fades -we find it alien

If minor twatter beef went to pistols
u would be shocked. Look at the minor insults that led to famous duels…

One movie above all will show u the difference: The Duelists by Ridley Scott.

Both men NEGLECT their duties to their fellow soldiers to preserve their honor. There CAN BE a TENSION between duty&honor! Image
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Jan 12
Leading moving targets with AR15, a rough primer

“Lead” in ft = target speed (ft/s) * time of flight (sec) [base formula is for movement perpendicular to you]

55gr out of a 16” barrel (a common set up) is ~1sec TOF to 900 yards

Walking speed is often 4ft/s

So, example:
Assuming target is walking perpendicular to you, about 300yds away, u get:

Lead in ft= 4*(1/3)= a little over a foot (so roughly a body depth of lead needed)

If target is running hard multiply lead x4

If 600yds, flight time is 2/3s

If moving obliquely (image) then x1/2 lead
Rough leads you can memorize and adjust from

300yds, perpendicular, walking = ~1 body depth

600yds, perpend, running = ~8 body depths or 10’

150yds, oblique, running = ~1 body depth lead

So anyone <150yds is going to be ~2 body depths OR LESS of lead, even running perpend
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Nov 9, 2022
Of course there was fraud, of course some big wins still happened - but ppl must remember the historically bad fundamentals here and what that should have resulted in

Inflation, comically senile POTUS, deranged tranz spreading everywhere, pointless war threats
energy prices skyrocketing, debt, standards of living plummeting, constant threats of even worse coming

This was an environment that should have been near-revolutionary

And it turned into a duck fart

The apathy and sapped will to live, will to struggle are the biggest stories
This election was about showing the Will to push back and instead we got a strong sense that ppl are mostly fine with where things are going

The will to do even the SMALLEST thing to buck the system and trendline is clearly lacking

The Ishmael Pill awaits
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Jun 18, 2022
There were no Presidents on coins until the 20thC - &other than Lincoln (1909) it was all a creation of Great Depression. In Prog Era we decided that we needed to be a proper Imperial power & therefore needed a proper Imperial mythos. So the “Founding Fathers” cult was fabricated
Now I love my homeland, this is the Land of Providence, but the truth is from the new gov-established cult we got a revised, partially-fabricated history, new coins, Mt Rushmore civil worship site, new term of reverence: “Founding Fathers”, etc
“Making shit up” has a long and storied Imperial history. Romans fabricated huge chunks of their history and were roleplaying having divine ancestors all the way to the end
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Jun 12, 2022
It is understandable, but wrong, that many can ONLY see Christianity as promoting weakness -they were brought up in some form of this in church, as we have for centuries now. Or they get it from reading bookcels who were

So when they read of Alaric pausing pillage for Easter
When they read of medieval CONQUERING kings building magnificent lofty cathedrals at massive expense

When they read of Hernan Cortes, who uncovered his head and bowed whenever addressing a priest

They see it all as PARADOX or else cope that such men didn’t “really” believe
But the fact is the ameliorating, humbling aspects of Christianity are wisdom. Any leader knows hubris is a THREAT - A LEADERSHIP FAULT - eg even a simple troop leader knows humility is critical. Ppl see Gen Patton as swaggering figure & ignore that he prayed morning & evening…
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