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Jimbo Jaggins posted:kind of a low bar imho
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# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 14:25 |
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# ¿ May 12, 2024 09:35 |
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spengler posted:The future of the West is not a limitless tending upwards and onwards for all time towards our presents ideals, but a single phenomenon of history, strictly limited and defined as to form and duration, which covers a few centuries nd can be viewed and, in essentials, calculated from available precedents. With this enters the age of gigantic conflicts, in which we find ourselves today. It is the transition from Napoleonism to Caesarism, a general phase of evolution, which occupies at least two centuries and can be shown to exist in all Cultures. The Chinese call it Shan-Kwo, the "period of the Contending States." In the Gracchan revolution, which was already [133 B.C.] heralded by a first Servile War, the younger Scipio was secretly murdered and C. Gracchus openly slain---the first who as Princeps and the first who as Tribune were political centers in themselves amidst a world become formless. When, in 104 B.C. the urban masses of Rome for the first time lawlessly and tumultuously invested a private person, Marius, with Imperium, the deeper importance of the drama then enacted is comparable with that of assumption of the mythic Emperor-title by the ruler of Ch'in in 288 B.C.. lol if tech nerds think theyre strongmen and not 'the power of money and intellect' thats going to be crushed in the coming caesarism
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# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 16:47 |
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Tubgirl Cosplay posted:I'm not lumping them together I'm saying the sharks are fighting over who gets to eat you Our only hope as goons and ameicans is killing them via high.cholesterol and diabetes
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# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 17:23 |
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Majorian posted:"The Walking Dead" is a lovely show. i thought the technology stops workign show was the event or something like that
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# ¿ Jul 31, 2014 20:08 |
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skeletonotherkin posted:"The place of the permanent armies as we know them will gradually be taken by professional forces of volunteer war-keen soldiers; and from millions we shall revert to hundreds of thousands. But ipso facto this second century will be one of actually Contending States. These armies are not substitutes for war---they are for war, and they want war. Within two generations it will be they whose will prevails over all the comfortables put together. In these wars of theirs for the heritage of the whole world, continents will be staked---India, China, South Africa, Russia, Islam called out, new technics and tactics played and counter-played.... The last race to keep its form, the last living tradition, the last leaders who have both at their back, will pass through and onward, victors." i dont htink you really understand the paragraph youre quoting
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# ¿ Nov 10, 2014 20:18 |