#cyclical history

[kontextmaschine]

“We have a regular high tea. Each month, Lacy Knightly [stages] high-quality burlesque. Sword & Veil produces these immersive dark art experiences.”

The key to the "Dream of the '90s" Portlandia '10s was that Portland is just perpetually 17 years behind the curve, culturally, but that's about the length of one retro cycle so it more or less works.

[geopolicraticus]

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY

Saint Augustine on the Two Cities  

Wednesday 13 November 2024 is the 1,670th anniversary of the birth of Saint Augustine (13 November 354 - 28 August 430), who areas born Aurelius Augustinus in Thagaste, in the province of Numidia, then part of the Roman Empire, now part of Algeria, on this date in 354 AD.

Saint Augustine has been one of the most influential figures in Western Christendom, named a father and a doctor of the church, and whose pervasive influence can be seen in philosophy of theology. But while his City of God has been read for more than a thousand years, and the providential conception of history he propounded continues to be influential, his philosophy of history remains underappreciated to this day. 

Quora:              https://philosophyofhistory.quora.com/ 

Discord:           https://discord.gg/r3dudQvGxD

Links:              https://jnnielsen.carrd.co/

Newsletter:     http://eepurl.com/dMh0_-/

Text post:        https://geopolicraticus.substack.com/p/saint-augustine-on-the-two-cities

Video:              https://youtu.be/5FfWfxWqlnA  

Podcast:          https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/LaLWxmh1vOb

[sufficient-tenacity]

It's always funny to watch people who are outsiders to the Church think the church is dead every 10 seconds like... you realize that everyone's been saying the same stuff for fucking ever right?

It's the same shit with tanks in military circles. Every war has a flashy pic or two of a tank getting blown up and everyone goes "look it's the end of tanks"

Pope Benedict has had very little hard power within the Church since he stepped down. When a Pope steps down, they're giving up the infallibility their position gives them. They no longer speak on behalf of the church.

Pope Benedict died a priest who used to be pope.

[sufficient-tenacity]

Cyclical history is a bitch

“Young folks would do well to remember that fandom as we know it was pioneered by housewives sharing the kinkiest Kirk/Spock fics known to man. Queerness, porn, and older women are foundational to fandom spaces. You try to remove one of those elements and the whole house comes down. When puriteens rail about porn and fandom adults, I hope they know they’re railing against the joists under their feet.”

— TBH (Twitter)

[surfthestardust]

12 year old me who was obsessed with the x men movies is so happy that 22 year old me is obsessed with deadpool and wolverine

[deadpanwalking]

hello, i'm watching one hundred years of solitude thanks to your posts and finding it absolutely captivating. i'm interested to know what you like most about the story if you feel like sharing!

I’ve been completely steeped in the book for well over half of my life, so I’m the worst person to ask about the narrative of the show—when I watch it, my brain slots in the missing context almost as quickly as the input makes its way up my visual pathway. So much of my enjoyment is rooted in how attentively the show replicates Márquez’s visual and sensory descriptions, and how ambitiously it goes about translating the lyrical prose through pacing and cinematography.

[wiverly]

DC LOOK AT ME

[wonder-worker]

"According to Howden, [Henry II] had been incredulous on hearing the first tidings of his son's [Henry the Young King's] death, until it was confirmed by the arrival of other messengers. Ordering his men to leave him, the Old King was overwhelmed by paroxysms of grief. Despite the periods of tension between them, the sources leave little doubt that Henry II loved his son deeply, and that his death was, as the History noted, ‘a bitter shock’. His grief was such that Peter of Blois felt compelled to compose a letter of consolation to the king, replete with biblical citations, urging him to moderate his sorrow and assuring him that young Henry’s deep contrition and pious death would spare him from divine punishment. Nevertheless, in this time of crisis, Henry II realized it was imperative not to show weakness: withholding his emotions from his forces, he immediately sent word to Richard, who was besieging Aixe, and ordered the siege of Limoges to be pressed home with greater vigour.  Repeated attacks finally wore down the defenders, weakened by hunger and demoralized by the realization that the chance of the rising’s success had died with the Young King. Finally, on 24 June, Viscount Aimar and the men of the Château surrendered the castle and all the defences to Henry II. The king thereupon completely demolished the fortifications, not leaving one stone upon another, and likewise ordered the destruction of other rebel castles."

— Matthew Strickland, Henry the Young King, 1155-1183

[mr-nauseam]

Im a fan of Sejanus Plinth. Now that I reread THG. Im judging whoever dare to compare him to Plutarch

[kontextmaschine]

:: sees the youth around him reclimbing the 90s-2000s style path::

oh my god Coachella-ass headdresses are gonna come back

[nereb-and-dungalef]

I keep drinking coffee thinking it's gonna make me Productive and then instead of doing the work I actually have to do I just compulsively make spreadsheets :(

[daphnaea]

me when I was 14: yes, Bulgaria used to be part of the USSR sphere but that was almost 30 years ago! We are two separate countries with our own mindsets and it's offensive to treat us as Russia-Lite!

me now watching Bulgaria become Russia-Lite: ....hm.

[geopolicraticus]

Friday 11 October 2024

Grand Strategy Newsletter

The View from Oregon – 310

Permutation of Cyclicality and Linearity

…in which I discuss linear and cyclical history, reductivist formulations of history, Nietzsche’s eternal return, inter-definability of permutations, temporal iterations, uniqueness in time, repetition, plate tectonics, and the supercontinent cycle…

Substack: https://geopolicraticus.substack.com/p/permutations-of-cyclicality-and-linearity

Medium: https://jnnielsen.medium.com/permutations-of-cyclicality-and-linearity-1dead7293ef4

Reddit:

[saints-who-never-existed]

Shortly after midnight on 24 May 1859, a human skeleton in the uniform of a steward from the lost expedition was found on a gravel ridge near the mouth of Peffer River on the island’s southern shore. 

McClintock recorded the tragic scene in his journal: 

“This poor man seems to have selected the bare ridge top, as affording the least tiresome walking, and to have fallen upon his face in the position in which we found him. It was a melancholy truth that the old woman spoke when she said, ‘they fell down and died as they walked along.’” 

McClintock believed the man had fallen asleep in this position and that his “last moments were undisturbed by suffering.” 

Alongside the bleached skeleton lay “a small clothes brush near, and a horn pocket-comb, in which a few light brown hairs still remained.” There was also a notebook, which belonged to Harry Peglar, captain of the foretop on the Terror. The notebook contained the handwriting of two individuals, Peglar and an unknown second. In the hand of Peglar was a song lyric, dated 21 April 1847, which begins: “The C the C the open C it grew so fresh the Ever free.” A mystery, however, surrounds the other papers, written in the hand of the unknown and referring to the disaster.

Most of the words in the messages were spelled backwards and ended with capital letters, as if the end were the beginning.

- Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition, Owen Beattie & John Geiger, 1987

[a-dusty-individual]

Stabbing politicians rules and all but to all Brits remember, our political system is fucked down to the roots so as much as we all want to just shank Rishi there is undoubtedly gonna be some Mark Anthony and Octavian behind him ready to claim him a martyr and bring us into a dictatorship.

So my suggestion: stab the entirety of the tory and labour parties. Full political reset.

[thatscarletflycatcher]

I have been trying for days to find a topic for the "paper" I need to turn in for this Philosophy of History course on Friday, and I got nothing.

I so intensely dislike this subject you cannot imagine.