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There is a war on beauty, because beauty connects us to God, to our history, and to each other.
Some of the artwork that burned up last night, completely irreplaceable. xitter.cf/DrewPavlou/status/2111…
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In Milan employees and customers have locked themselves inside shops for fear of an attack by criminals. This is not Italy anymore.
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🇫🇷 Rome didn’t fall in a day...
The Visigoths didn’t storm the gates. Rome invited them in, gave them land, stopped enforcing its borders, and called it tolerance. In 410 AD, they sacked the city.
France is running the same playbook.
1,800 arrested. Historic buildings set ablaze. Riots from Paris to the provinces.
History doesn’t repeat. But it rhymes.
Writers: Samuel, Michael
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The degree to which people in the West fall prey to suicidal empathy continues to astonish me.
Read @GadSaad’s book about it!
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Kenneth Clark’s "Civilisation" (1969) remains one of television’s greatest achievements: a luminous, 13-part journey through Western art, architecture, and ideas from the fall of Rome to the 20th century. Clark’s cultivated yet deeply personal narration pairs with stunning location filming of cathedrals, paintings, and landscapes to show how culture has shaped history. More than a survey of masterpieces, it argues that civilization is a fragile, hard-won achievement worth understanding and defending. Watching it sharpens the eye, expands historical imagination, and offers a rare model of intelligent, humane cultural commentary. Few documentaries have matched its grace clarity.
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Civilization is the most educational thing I’ve ever watched. I just got the companion book!
Kenneth Clark’s "Civilisation" (1969) remains one of television’s greatest achievements: a luminous, 13-part journey through Western art, architecture, and ideas from the fall of Rome to the 20th century. Clark’s cultivated yet deeply personal narration pairs with stunning location filming of cathedrals, paintings, and landscapes to show how culture has shaped history. More than a survey of masterpieces, it argues that civilization is a fragile, hard-won achievement worth understanding and defending. Watching it sharpens the eye, expands historical imagination, and offers a rare model of intelligent, humane cultural commentary. Few documentaries have matched its grace clarity.
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I was stopped in my tracks by this car today. We need to make beautiful cars again. The interior looked exquisite too.
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“At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.”
― Elon Musk
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Neuroplasticity works faster under high emotional intensity. If you can resist a craving when it's at its peak, you get a bigger rewiring effect. This is why the hardest moments matter most, they're not setbacks, they're high-voltage opportunities to change.
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Palazzo Colonna has been owned by the same noble family for over 800 years, making it one of Rome’s oldest privately held palaces
This is the Hall of the Fountain, inside the Princess Isabelle Apartment
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Der Anwalt des ukrainischen Angeklagten im Fall des Anschlags auf die Nordstream-Pipelines hat zugegeben, dass dieser in staatlichem Auftrag gehandelt habe.
Wenn die Bundesregierung jetzt nicht umgehend sämtliche Hilfen gegenüber der Ukraine einstellt, unterstützt sie auch ganz offiziell ein Land, das die deutsche Energieversorgung angegriffen hat.
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I always think about how people would dress better if our architecture and environment in general was beautiful. Aesthetics have a shaping effect on how we behave, dress, and feel.
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Elon Musk: Few people in the West know what war really means.
"One of the things that does concern me is that there are very few people alive today who actually viscerally understand the horrors of war, at least in the US. How many people in the West understand it?
My grandfather was in World War II. He was severely traumatized. He was there for almost six years in Eastern North Africa, and Italy. All his friends were killed in front of him.
He had PTSD next-level, he just didn't talk. And if you tried talking to him, he'd just tell you to shut up. So he would say no way in hell do you want to do that again.
How many people are alive that remember World War II? Not many."
Interview with Lex Fridman, 2023