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Cultivating Wisdom retweeted
No one had done more than Raymond to draw attention to the heroics of the Christian warriors who battled Islam for a millennium to save the Occident from the rampaging, brutal violence of the Mahommedan hordes
From the brave knights of the Reconquista to Skanderbeg's valiant attempts to save Albania from Muslim aggression, from Martel to Godfrey, he had shown they were heroes who fought desperately to save their homelands
If only we'd had his scholarship to point to after 9/11, to close the border, drive the Mohammedans out, and insist that Islam is not a religion of peace and is rather a great civilizational enemy of the Occident, as are all who believe in it
Read his books, if you haven't already
Cultivating Wisdom retweeted
Learn useful things. Read old books. Know your history. Teach your children what is worth loving. Build friendships strong enough to survive disagreement and hardship. Become capable of producing something besides opinions. Create things worth inheriting.
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NEVER FORGET: once your culture is gone, it's gone forever.
Government education has (deliberately) failed to teach the Great Books of the West for decades.
So, we started an independent group to study the Western canon together. We're reading the books that form the mind and shape the spirit. The books our ancestors read.
Western Civilization has given us the greatest works ever known, but it takes effort and an open mind to read them. Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Dante, Shakespeare, and Milton are not just names in a syllabus, but guides to a deeper and more ordered life.
Join our reading group to study the great works in dialogue with others. We read a new classic every 4-6 weeks, and meet biweekly to discuss.
We are just starting The Brothers Karamazov, the greatest psychological novel ever written. You do NOT want to miss this.
Take out a paid subscription if you'd like to support us and join the discussions directly — it makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate.
You'll get:
- Live book club discussions (biweekly)
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- Essays to guide you through the Great Books
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See you inside!
Cultivating Wisdom retweeted
This is extremely important to understand.
The birth rate you see in the West is the BLENDED number of ~90% who have a fertility rate half that of replacement and ~10% who have a birth rate double that of replacement.
Demographics is destiny.
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Cultivating Wisdom retweeted
Few novels understand the human soul like The Brothers Karamazov.
It is a book about fathers and sons, faith and doubt, freedom and responsibility and what happens when a man tries to live as though God, truth, and morality do not matter.
Athenaeum Book Club is about to begin its read-along, and I strongly recommend joining them. They have built one of the best book clubs in the world around serious books, real discussion, and the kind of ideas that can change how you see your life.
Follow @AthenaeumBooks, subscribe, and read The Brothers Karamazov with them.
Friends — we're about to start our most exciting read-along yet.
The Brothers Karamazov.
If you've been on the fence about joining the book club, now's the time. You do not want to miss this.
We are reading it over the next 6-7 weeks. First discussion is on August 4, covering Books 1-4.
We read Crime and Punishment in May, and followed the harrowing yet illuminating journey of Raskolnikov. But The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's final and greatest work, takes his moral and spiritual ideas to their utmost height. Many consider it the greatest psychological novel ever written.
For those who want to join our "inner circle" and participate in the discussions directly, we are running a discount for 24 hours only...
25% off full membership!!
You'll get:
- Live book club discussions (biweekly)
- Access to our incredible community chat
- Essays to guide you through the Great Books
- All past recordings, essays, and podcasts
- Ability to vote on what we read next
athenaeumbooks.com/julyoffer
Of course, you may also read along for free and tune into the live broadcasts. Let's make this our biggest read-along ever!
See you inside.
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Now that I have your attention, yes: Hot baths are very very bad for male fertility. If you did not know that, now you know. Abstain from hot baths, hot tubs, sauna etc for 90 days before trying to conceive, legionaries 🫡
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Fun fact, Lewis and Clark traveled more than 4x the distance Frodo and Sam did.
Frodo and Sam: 1,800 miles
Lewis and Clark: 8,000 miles
American, remember who you are descended from.
Today in American History: 1806
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, leading the Corps of Discovery, began their return journey home from the Pacific coast (departing Fort Clatsop).
Their expedition had explored the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and beyond, providing crucial maps, scientific data, and information about the American West.
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Stephen Miller is 100% right here
The high culture that made the West so superior to everywhere else on Earth only came because Western Europe executed ~1% of each generation for centuries
In weeding the crime gene out of the population through centuries of capital punishment for everything from larceny to murder, Western Europe made itself a paradise, and blossomed into the greatest high civilization the world has ever seen over the 18th and 19th centuries
So, as he said, "The West only achieved the place that it did in human history because it spent previous centuries eradicating the criminal elements within it’s territories. The West that we came to know that had the great music and architecture and science and the most powerful economy had spent centuries previous to that establishing order first."
That is 100% true. High civilization requires order, and requires the pruning of the tree of civilization to achieve it
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The new HBO series 'A knight of the seven kingdoms' -- set in the 'Game of Thrones' world -- is very, very good. (8.5/10 on IMDB , 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.)
Five things I love about it:
- Peter Claffey (6'5", former professional rugby player) is perfectly cast as the lead knight Ser Duncan the Tall -- and he's a good and highly engaging actor
- his character is one of the few protagonists in modern TV who seems to have an IQ that's absolutely average -- not a genius, not a dunce, just an IQ 100 guy, trying to make his way in a world in which most other characters are smarter, more cynical, & more Machiavellian.
- his character has a natural virtue that is presented as earnest, honorable, and good -- avoiding the hyper-cynicism (verging on godless nihilism) that pervaded so many characters in Game of Thrones (and most other modern TV).
- the series is anti-woke -- virtually no 'diversity' for its own sake; no anachronistic moral preaching; it's the polar opposite of the catastrophically Leftist new 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' series.
- the series is a bit 'slow-paced' by conventional action-fantasy standards -- but I've found every scene engrossing and compelling, every character believable and distinctive, and every line of dialogue well-crafted.
If you have teen boys in need of good, traditional, knightly role models, this series -- so far at least -- would be worth sharing with them.
Masculine virtues are making a welcome comeback.
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I don’t think people understand what’s happening/the purpose of flooding America with immigrants.
Rome.
One of the primary reasons for Rome's eventual collapse was the empire's continued conquest and absorption of foreign peoples.
Eventually, the number of foreigners who possessed no cultural ties to Rome itself outnumbered actual Romans. These foreigners didn't care about Rome’s cultural history or identity. They had no desire to assimilate and make it their own. This led to the eventual collapse of Rome’s institutions and erosion of her values, history and traditions.
There's nothing xenophobic or racist about wanting to protect and maintain a nation’s history, traditions, and culture. In fact, this was widely accepted amongst the American people and even amongst immigrants who came to our country for a better life. In fact, it’s paramount to a nation’s survival.
The immigrants of yesteryear brought with them pieces of their own culture, but also wanted to assimilate into American culture and institutions.
Instead of demanding that America and her people give up their traditions and beliefs in favor of embracing their own, they preserved key pieces of their traditions. They added them to American culture while accepting and embracing the uniqueness of the American experience, institutions, beliefs, and history.
