It's disingenuous to call Prince a "neocon" when he's one of the most vocal critics of moralistic nation building and pseudo democracy and instead advocates for East India Company style overt contracting.

https://twitter.com/FistedFoucault/status/1793131923490963707

But maybe for Niccolo Salo the word "neocon" is just a slur for "uncastrated Anglo-American with global ambitions." It's a nice complement to Thomas7's Third Worldist role play. We should all be LARPing as Viet Minh or preening around like caponized Hobbits presumably

The original Renaissance and Enlightenment distinction was "the Ancients" vs "the Moderns" with the middle ages belonging to the Moderns. This two part division is both more correct and harder for Christians to strawman and ridicule than the meme ancient-medieval-modern scheme

https://twitter.com/GodCloseMyEyes/status/1791848744297660771

The ancients-moderns division is preeminent from Machiavelli to Benjamin Constant and Gibbon. It goes hand in hand with the seeing the origins of modern world in the harsh proto republican virtue of Germanic barbarians

Schopenhauer has argument that Purgatory and Hell are not depictions of another world, but metaphors for this world, for its suffering and boredom. This is true of most products of the modern mind, they are metaphors for ugly truths that can't be approached directly

https://twitter.com/augureust/status/1661669814572556288

Encoded "fictional" horrors like Lovecraftian horror, contagion, and especially the myth of the "uncanny valley" (look up its provenance) dominate the modern mind in the same way that elements of popular Christianity dominated the medieval mind

Modern Τranssexuality and The Office: A Thread🧵 A causal relationship can be drawn between the Office (2005-2013) and the explosion of Hermaphroditism in the United States among those who were impressionable teenagers when the show aired

Novels, literature are obsolete because flattening of human personality types has destroyed any sense of mystery from the "real" world. There are maybe 5 types of humans left in normie society and they are all aggressively dull. Many develop personas online, but even with this element of artificiality/self-consciousness you still come across more "literary" human types online than you would in the carefully managed existence of the normie:
school->college->job->drinks with coworkers->marriage->death

“Everyone evades obligations and regulations as much as possible; crime arouses sympathy, so that those condemned to death or exile remain free and go about in public; education is neglected; a man is honoured merely for saying he loves the people. The frivolity of government is paralleled by that of the democratic citizen, who is as wild and capricious as the State; he lives for the desire of the moment,

15 OCTOBER 1844

"I know my destiny. There will come a day when my name will recall the memory of something formidable—a crisis the like of which has never been known on earth, the memory of the most profound clash of consciences, and the passing of a sentence upon all that which theretofore had been believed, exacted, and hallowed. I am not a man, I am dynamite. And with it all there is nought of the founder of a religion in me.