Tag: 1000 = 2000
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In medieval terms
Substack is full of booklovers and “classical education” fans. They insist that reading more books is the solution to all problems. We have forgotten how to think in complex ways because we no longer read Melville and Milton and Cicero. Exactly backwards. We read and write INFINITELY more than ever before. The web is text.…
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Not just the religious pope
Comment seen on substack. = = = = = START QUOTE: Here’s a semi-annual reminder to all my Northern Hemisphere comrades (the North Wind People): we live under the tyranny of a calendar designed by a Mediterranean pope—a man who probably thought of “winter” as the time to bring a warmer linen shirt to the…
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Philco = medieval
The Philco Rule: Sell merchandise that doesn’t come back to customers who do come back. Good manufacturers avoid quantity. They make high-quality products that don’t come back, and they interact with customers to maintain the products. Good lawyers avoid trials and judgments. They negotiate and interact to reach a plea deal or a settlement. Good…
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Healthy attitude
More examples of a healthy response to insane rulers. Along with the endless overdoses, dozens per day, we have violence of all sorts, mostly crazy. The activists want us to crusade against the rulers. Sorry, I’m a conscientious objector from ALL wars, official and unofficial. Unofficial crusaders lose every time, and their losses and failures…
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I didn’t go far enough
A few days ago I wrote about the return of medieval idiocy. = = = = = START REPRINT: We’re seeing the medieval Personality Cult up close this week. The press and other courtiers are always devoted to the Person of the King. The actions and behavior of the King are utterly irrelevant. It doesn’t…
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The Person of the King
We’re seeing the medieval Personality Cult up close this week. The press and other courtiers are always devoted to the Person of the King. The actions and behavior of the King are utterly irrelevant. It doesn’t matter if the King is a baby or an incompetent imbecile or an evil monster. Everyone must sacrifice and…
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Reprint from a few months ago
Reprinted because I’m goddamn tired of seeing this formerly somewhat useful country IMPRISONED AND TRAPPED AND BOUND AND GAGGED AND TORTURED by ALL of its politicians and corporations and universities and churches and organizations at ALL fucking levels. No exceptions. Nobody is functional. Everybody is working harder and harder to BLOCK AND STOP AND TRAP…
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Natural desistance?
Random thought triggered by Desistance, probably wrong. I wonder if we’re seeing a sort of natural Desistance from government. This year MANY young and competent and less partisan people are leaving Congress and leaving the federal bureaucracy. Each of them has expressed disgust and weariness with the utterly pointless institution. This will purify the monstrosity.…
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Dovetailing histories
Last month I featured an IEEE journal from 1962. Here’s the journal itself at Google Books. Along with the looking-forward articles, the journal included some plain history pieces. An article on p 752 by Colin Cherry tried to cover the ENTIRE history of mass communication, with a unique insight that our modern propaganda has wiped…
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Recycled authentication
1. Every language has ways of marking the end of a sentence or thought. Words are much less definite and more variable. In some languages the elements we’d consider words are integral parts of one ‘word’ that forms a sentence. In every language phonetic coarticulation melds ‘words’ but doesn’t cross a sentence boundary. 2. Written…
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We manage somehow
It’s a peculiar situation. Polls consistently show that 2/3 of the population is perfectly tired of the political and corporate teams and all the crimes committed by the political and corporate teams. Yet no writers or politicians or corporations or advertisers or churches or entertainers are trying to pick up this audience. All the output…
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Demons live to 100
This is the year when lots of centenarian demons finally stopped slaughtering. Today: = = = = = START QUOTE: Jacques Delors, a pivotal figure in the European Union’s history and former President of the European Commission, has passed away at the age of 98. His daughter, Martine Aubry, confirmed his death to the news…
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Medieval mindset
The medieval mindset is hardass realistic about human nature, especially the nature of demons. Machiavelli wrote it all down in systematic and scientific form so we can read it now, but ordinary peasants were equally realistic. You can hear the realism in religious songs and prayers from the period. They didn’t ask God to Elect…
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Insatiables vs Deplorables from the start
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START REPRINT: An interesting bit of history from the Lea book on the Inquisition that I was citing earlier. This part isn’t emphasized in conventional wisdom nowadays. Before the Inquisition ran wild and expanded into an all-consuming pogrom of Deplorables, it began as an…
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Not a paradox 2
Things have definitely changed! Lady Edgar was the PERFECT CATHOLIC IN EVERY WAY. She insisted on hiring other PERFECT CATHOLICS as her assistants, and copied the techniques of the old Inquisition. Now the FBI is infiltrating and inquisitioning “tradcaths”. Not a paradox. From 1300 to 1500 the church was also inquisitioning tradcaths who wanted to…
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