I was on this job. 1). The Russians refused to allow the only viable rescue platform to dive on the Kursk until they were certain everyone on board was already dead. 2). They eventually allowed a dive to try and gain access to the hull using a special tool. Once the hull was

End of the Greek Golden Age. Decline in public life as civic revenues dried up, as cities shifted from taxing oligarchs to borrowing from them, with interest. As debts mounted, public amenities & common lands were sold off to private creditors -often Persian or Macedonian agents.

Thomas Jefferson saw the Bible and said “I could do better.” You have to admire him for that. That’s the Faustian spirit—man’s bold attempt to surpass the perfection and omniscience of god himself. Idk I’ve never read Spengler but seems pretty Faustian to me

The designers of 1789, transported to the present, would (a) see DC in 2025 as a grotesque distortion of their design, and (b) agree that their design could not work at all for the America of 2025. Even Mill thought the best government for Ireland was a “good stout despotism”

“You should love peace as a means to new wars—and the short peace more than the long. I do not advise you to work, but to fight. I do not advise you to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!” — Nietzsche

North Korea released a documentary about their soldiers fighting against Ukraine.

My final word on the niggardly billionaires (a subject also capably covered by Helen Andrews and Marko Jukic, if in less dramatic terms). Link in reply

PLA theorist Gao Tiqian's classic 1994 book, "War and Strategy" outlined 14 "Principles of Military Operations" followed by the Chinese military. My translation of Gao's derived principles below ...

HEIDEGGER ON TECHNOLOGY (Feat. @LanceLegion) General Lance and I discuss Heidegger’s essay On the Question Concerning Technology, its applications to modernity (AI, VR, Porn), the future, while relating it to my novel, Promethean Dreams and our own project. YouTube link below -

From 1945 to 1980 Vietnam experienced long war of unification and civil war. Which is still in living memory. Then look at Vietnam now. Then think how that shapes national policy and political mindset. Look at the last 50 years of a nation to see the next 20.

A Greek Army major I once worked with was able to hand-roll a cigarette while driving a diesel Jeep Panjero through the mountain roads of Bosnia. Not many guys could do this. 🇬🇷

Schopenhauer:

Not a state with military-industrial complex, but a military-industrial complex with a state. New Dispatch on Sweden in the 17th century. dispatch.bazaarofwar.com/p/a-military-i…

The UK surpasses Pakistan in blasphemy persecutions & Australia surpasses the Taliban in the destruction of history. A shameful era for the former British Empire.

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself." — Kierkegaard

"Brave men are a city's strongest arm." — Alcaeus of Mytilene

I had a prof who was an undergrad student of Russian/Soviet history in the late 1960s. Towards end of term seminar on the Russian Revolution, his prof said they’d have a special guest next week and make sure you’re here. The guest was Kerensky. Even at his age, he was one of

Totally agree, the 80s rocked, let's go back!

ART IS VIOLENCE & WAR ON LIFE Excerpt from my conversation with Lance Legion on Martin Heidegger’s Essay on The Question concerning Technology, modernity, the threat of VR and AI manifested in improper uses of technology (porn, pleasure sims), and my novel, Promethean Dreams.

/CHOOSE WAR/ Nietzsche