🧵The story of Executive Outcomes, as narrated by its founder, Eeben Barlow in his book “Executive Outcomes, against all odds”, is not only of historical interest, but is essential to anyone who wants to understand how the world works today.
It is an inspiring story of men who saw it as their duty to go into what can be most often only described as hell on earth, to do what they saw as the right thing to do – repeatedly, at great personal cost.

The Ring of the Nibelung - A Preface to Nietzsche 🧵
In the preface to Der Fall Wagner, Nietzsche says: "Wagner sums up modernity. There is no way out, one must first become a Wagnerian."
Yet most self-proclaimed Nietzscheans have no exposure to Wagner, so here it is: The Ring is Wagner's main work, so I'll concentrate on it. The full Libretto is available as dual-language, with many notes and commentary. Roger Scruton's book is also good, but better yet is Paul Heise's Wagnerheim: wagnerheim.com

How to learn Ancient Greek to read Homer: 🧵 It is possible to read Homer's works in the original Ancient Greek in just a few weeks of study. Many waste time looking for the perfect method and book.
I wrote a longer post on learning AG in general, but here is a quick summary for those looking to read primarily Homer: