"On 31 December 1984, the great, strong Kra struck."

"The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh." ~ Bordiga

Biden won. Woke Catholicism won. Ready the Crystals. Prepare for sleep.

Our youthful anxiety was that time would slowly turn us into our irascible fathers; that we'd one day trade our ambitions for voting republican and end the night bickering at the TV. Nowadays, the youth starts fresh as curmudgeons.

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that was the real kicker for me. How variegated democratic sensibility really is: the very thing that fosters individualism also fuels the desire for rigid religious hierarchy, hence Catholicism.

“Yesterday an American asked me how I classified human miseries; I answered without hesitation that I put them in this order: chronic illnesses, death, doubt.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Letter to Arthur de Gobineau

“An error only becomes a fault if one persists in it.” Ernst Jünger, On the Marble Cliffs

Tragically, our eternal welfare depends upon our hearing the very music that we have trained our ears not to hear.

"I never step foot into an entertainment hall because of the smell of human meat which I have the misfortune of being disgusted by. But there was an occasion to listen to the music of M. Charles de Sivry, and that was well worth exterminating myself a little." ~ Léon Bloy

“I hold friendship to be the true, sole, and most beautiful union of souls and thus also the noblest and sweetest pleasure of which human beings are capable. Indeed, even love serves friendship.” Herder

A problem of not reading Tocqueville.

Destitute and having witnessed a friend selling his book collection Hamann contemplated the same. Herder instead gave him the money. Hamann in turn wrote something of a critical will to Herder at the end of a writing, one of the great passages of friendship.

Houellebecq on Tocqueville and the perfection of the semicolon:

"Much, perhaps most, of the “Right”, even the so-called “Far Right” has long since succumbed to Free Trade capitalism." ~ Introductory Note to Prussianism and Socialism

“God is found within me, yet I do not find God because I am outside myself. I am where my mind is, and my mind is where it’s attention is, and my attention is inveterately turned outward, away from both self and God”

New Snobstonk just plonked: "Forget the romanticized, kitsch Ernst Jünger of Storm of Steel. That seductive image is a commodified atrocity, and deeply sophomoric. Far more refreshing is the 1950s’ grim diagnosis: humanity has crossed a line…"

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