Mindset. Greco Roman culture, history and philosophy. Aesthetics, inspiration and insights from the heroes of old.
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Like Zeus who rescued his Olympian siblings to overthrow the old decadent order of his Father, Cronus, the new aristocrats must rise and defeat the modern oppressive order and create a renaissance of heroic power and light. Passage from my upcoming book, 'Aristocratic Spirit':
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“You must believe you are special - then go so hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. Wage a daily war against the ordinary outcome until the belief you invented from nothing, alone in a room, has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.”
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Yes, man is made the architect of his own destiny; he himself has been the cause of the successes or reverses of his own fortune; and if, on a review of all the pains with which he has tormented his own life, he finds reason to weep over his own weakness or imprudence, yet, considering the beginnings from which he set out, and the height attained, he has, perhaps, still reason to presume on his strength, and to pride himself on his genius.
--Constantin-François de Volney, "The Ruins"
Vitality is best described as a deep wellspring of energetic optimism- it's an almost irrational (but intuitive to the vitalistic individual) lasting impulse to employ the will towards powerful purpose, that satisfies the soul and expands itself. Beauty, sex, love, enterprise- all examples.
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You have power.
You can be a player on history's stage.
You may not believe it.
But it is true.
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I have no idea what a "Linewife" is
and refuse to look it up
All I know about is "Wine Life"
In my village by the sea
People treat 'LARPing' as bad. It's only bad when you pretend to be something you don't understand or truly believe in.
If I seek to imitate men of ambition, strength, martial conquest, who believe in destiny, honor their gods and create culture, why is it 'LARP'ing?
By this metric, ancient Greek hero worship was also 'LARP'ing. Be careful who you listen to- most critics have an agenda.
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“You will work out what to do, through your own wits and with divine assistance. The gods have blessed you in your life so far.”
— Homer, The Odyssey
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Sallust describes the depravity that took root in Roman minds as factionalism and corruption corroded institutions.
From the translation of Sallust's War of Catiline (36) (amzn.to/3JYDgjB)
