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Alaric The Barbarian
@0xAlaric
Warrior-Poet lifestyle advocate. Historical research and martial arts poasting. Founder @Dissident_Rev
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Jan 2 • 25 tweets • 9 min read
ON THE ORIGIN OF MARTIAL ARTS

How people “learned” to fight is a contentious question. In many cases, it’s very tied into ethnic pride. Here’s a rough sketch of my hypothesis.

In short, I think the better question is when people *forgot* how to fight.

1/ Image There are many competing claims to being the “originator” of martial arts.

We’re going to define the term as systematized methods of fighting, whether unarmed or with weapons, but particularly hand-to-hand — i.e. archery or atlatl throwing is not a “martial art.” Image
Dec 28, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is ripped from David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water.” I know this because a middle school teacher made us watch it on repeat and do (many) assignments on it. Even as a kid, I found it juvenile and stupid. 150 years ago, students at that age would have been reading Latin. When people brag about their “success” in K-12, it betrays a lack of depth. Basically, that they were good at repeating these kinds of platitudes, and getting pats on the head about it felt like a great achievement.
Dec 27, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I think Elon vs. Everybody is more of a result of information and language disparities. People are too quick to forget the past two years. Vivek has burned a lot of good will today, but will hopefully come around. Either way, he’s not running immigration policy. I still stand by my original take; the system is broken both for the American people and (tbf, less importantly) for CEOs who want actual elite talent from other countries.

Instead it functions as The Great Replacement-inator in white collar fields.
Dec 26, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is an utterly insane thing to say to a person whose country you migrated to for better work opportunities and quality of life. You don’t even need HBD or economic arguments to expose these people as harmful. They just… come out and say it themselves.
Dec 23, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I’m a “kid” and I go out. I’m very social.

Nightlife “exists” — but it’s ridiculous to pretend that the social environment of 2024 is just as lively as it always has been.

As it exists now, it’s a pale imitation of 2002-2012. The bars and nightclubs are socially stilted, suffocated. Part of this is downstream of COVID, and another part is downstream of MeToo.

Pretending that nothing has changed and everybody “normal” is “chill” is an absurd thing to do. Everything is either different or just a rehash
Dec 21, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
You’re not gonna believe this…

1/ “Aboriginal America” wasn’t just one unified blob of heya-hoya red men. I know that this is what you were told we believe, but it’s not true. Pre-Columbian America was home to a wide array of vastly different races and ethnic groups, which helps to explain their disparities. Image
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Dec 20, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The existence of the term “POC” is affirmation of the white man as the sole historical protagonist; it essentially translates to “NPC” in world history. I don’t know why any nonwhite person would accept this framing. Grouping themselves in with ie subsaharans, solely contra European history and civilization. Comes from a lack of pride, and major resentment.
Dec 19, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
It’s difficult to understate how aristocratic medieval warfare was. Single combats, small skirmishes. A knight could often count the men across from him.

Thus each man was worth much more — trained from childhood, wildly expensive armor, riding a well-bred horse… 1/ Knights, especially prominent ones, were often captured rather than killed because they’d fetch a large ransom.

It wasn’t unusual for a castle to have a few long-term prisoners, often treated quite well by POW standards.

A handful of mercenaries made their fortunes in this way. Image
Dec 19, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
People increasingly can’t understand criticism of fiction.

They see fictional worlds as ruled by Iron Laws, and pride themselves in Understanding The Rules of said world. The characters make decisions of their own accord.

1/ This tracks with the centralization of fictional media into “cinematic universes.”

In this frame, the Marvel Universe *exists*, and the films involve us peering into it for a moment.

Writers increasingly function the same way — playing dolls with established IP.
Dec 12, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This thinking is reduced to absurdity with “gotcha” questions of degree. For example — “why rebuild the Notre Dame instead of saving 40,000 African malaria patients?”

Because it’s here, and it’s ours. Buying a bike for my brother is better than buying 500 meals for Africans. It’s parasitism. There is always someone more wretched than you, always some population somewhere that’s worse-off. This is used as a moral cudgel to strip you of your goods, labor, and affinity.
Dec 12, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is a bizarre way to think about the world. It’s masturbatory — “I value things based on first principles, not petty concerns like blood. I am very smart.”

I value my family more than others because they’re my family. That’s the justification. They have my blood. Once again, like everything else, Nietzsche talks about this. It’s an appeal to some contorted, contrived version of universal morality, a rejection of the obvious truth of Nature.

Mostly it’s just used to hijack other people to support their own “blood.” Parasitic “morality.”
Dec 11, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Huxley was crucified by literary critics for predicting this 100 years ago. The past century has served to slowly affirm him as a prophet; the end state of this vindication is the total rejection of his work, in progress now. Image Today Brave New World is taught as a high school book, which serves only to trivialize and neuter it. Its deeper and more salient points are lost — absorbed into transient, interchangeable, and contrived Discourse, not unlike the disposable world of its characters.
Dec 10, 2024 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
“The Affliction caused me to do porn, nothing else. You must now respect me as an Intellectual.”

Even if this was true at face value (it’s not), would it not be a good reason to disqualify someone from being taken seriously? After all, it could be The Affliction talking. Image Porn is often presented as the female version of young male crime. Nobody ever “wants” to do it, they’re forced into it by Purely Systemic Factors. “He wuz a gud boy!” is here translated into therapyspeak. Image
Dec 7, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
What is the end goal of a “fraternal network?” A serious one, that is.

It is the undertaking of great things: campaigns, conquests, coups. You don’t do that by farming chickens with your butt buddies. You do it by boldly taking the levers of power.

1/ “Telling you to go die in a rich man’s war” — this is just dumb. All wars involve dying and in some sense are “rich man’s wars.”

The rhetoric is drivel, and has been for centuries. It’s the same excuse used by people who ie could have gone with Cortés but backed down. Cowardice.
Dec 7, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Right likes Ted Kaczynski for the same reason the Left likes John Brown. Vicariously watching someone “do something” that meant nothing and failed spectacularly.

“Maybe if people Do Something hard enough, I won’t have to go to work on Monday”

Thus they become messianic ISAIF is an interesting work, and Kaczynski was an idiot as a “revolutionary.” Both are true. But the base instinct that animates so much support for him is this voyeurism for “Doing Something” by people who won’t themselves. Conveniently the figure can then become a martyr
Dec 3, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The only "acceptable" young man is totally neutered. He is "goofy" and has no opinions on anything, left or right. No personality to speak of. He knows his place. He works out himself, but has no standards for women and certainly no "weird health kicks." He is blank, pure Void. He plays with Legos. He reads Wikipedia articles. Maybe he likes sports betting. He calls these interests "autism" jokingly, and his bouncing between them "ADHD." He certainly doesn't have any deep obsessions, or serious commitments. He has no ambitions and no competitiveness.
Dec 2, 2024 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
In 1541, conquistador Francisco de Orellana and his men became stranded along the Amazon River.

Their only option was to build a boat and follow the length of the river. They were the first Europeans to do so — and the only ones to encounter thriving Amazonian civilization.

1/ Image After splitting off from Gonzalo Pizarro's expedition to the fabled "Land of Cinnamon," Orellana and 50 men traveled downriver to look for supplies. They quickly realized that they could not fight the current to return.
Nov 29, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Good thread on football — a lot of the online Right does this whole “ew, sportsball” schtick that feels out-of-touch and defeatist.

In reality football is still a powerful part of American life and identity, and many of the impulses you may have re: politics are applied to it. Right now there’s a change following what’s described in the thread: the two-high safety scheme is suffocating the deep pass, and again changing the game to favor the run, screen passes, etc.

There’s a popular nostalgia for power-T offenses and other old-school schemes. Image
Nov 23, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The immediate belief that “giants couldn’t have been real” is really funny to me. It’s not a fire-breathing lizard, it’s literally just a really tall guy. The same thing goes for older skepticism about the Giant Squid. We already have squids. We’re very aware of them. But apparently everyone agreed on a Hard Line at a certain size.
Nov 23, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Something that’s bothered me for a long time in how we talk about communist agitators is that we pretend they’re young and dumb and senseless instead of rightly identifying them as communist agitators

Take them at their word. They want you dead and say as much in public. Weak, dysgenic 19 year olds with gay voice make up a large chunk of antifa types. Pretending that this stuff is just “haha dumb young people, amirite?” is how we got here in the first place.
Nov 22, 2024 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
NC Wyeth practically *created* Americana, in such a way that it transcended all of the kitsch that tried to follow in his footsteps Image
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Image (I know this was not OP’s point, but this is more of a response to what he’s quoting, which alleges that “American art has only been good because leftism”)