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@corsair21c
May 21 • 3 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Scenes of Late Rome

Romans good only for fucking prostitutes. Endless parties, holidays, philosophizing

Whereas the Germanic barbarians are chaste, pious, “softer” of heart, yet so iron-willed that 29 Saxon gladiators killed themselves rather than become a debauched spectacle ImageImage
You have to love circus games continuing until 549 AD (!) when the money finally ran out

Makes you think there will be Super Bowl orgies carrying on through the rubble of the 24th century
Yes, there was no shortage of schools, literature and philosophy babbling among these decadent dying fruits. So much for muh philosophical education will save Rome! Image

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The trump card in the obesity explanation debates is the evidence that even wild animals are fatter now

It doesn’t take much endocrine disrupting poison to slow metabolisms, & we are awash in it -not just muh seed oils either. Slowing metabolisms are more than enough to explain
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May 17
The “cultural lamentation” is something that only appears from wordcels when the thing is already gone. The dreamer -and however intelligent they are they remain idealists in this sense -attempts to reanimate dead ways through wise words

It does not ever work -indeed it cannot
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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”
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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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