/lit/ - Literature

>>18181059
me too...

>>18074086
>>18074162
Alright it should be good.
https://pastebin.com/w8RYZVr6
^this took me ~30 minutes to organize again
fucking hell

>>18017952
>natural progression of things
I don't believe in the concept of "progress" in History. Since the industrial revolution we have only degraded in:
Genetic quality
Economic fairness (I'm not talking about equality and such; I'm talking about the system we have which is based on usury)
Community structure
And in the last decades:
Spirituality (of any kind really)
Discipline, duty and self-control
Virtuousness, which I think ties well with its etymology, the latin Vir ("man"). 'Virtus' constituted the ideal of the true Roman male.
> all self correcting, we'll run out of resources eventually.
I believe so as well.
>If the way to correct for decadence is give people a sense of duty I don't really see anything on the horizon that fits the bill.
There is, in Geopolitics:
The Russia-Ukraine cold war intensifying (and if mainstream journalists are talking about it, it has a higher chance of happening. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iywKH60NUGg . Also no, I don't watch Tucker)
Ethiopia is building the "renaissence" dam that'll block off the Blue Nile (the biggest affluent); Egypt's population is 95% dependent on the Nile as a water suply. This would/will lead to mass migration. This would/will lead to massive unrest among the european population.
What I'm trying to show is that "Happenings" are real, and could lead to acceleration/collapse/or a retaking of power by anti-globalists.

Let us see what we have in store for us...

This is taken from Sir John Glubb's essay "The Fate of Empires"

Summary
As numerous points of interest have arisen
in the course of this essay, I close with a brief
summary, to refresh the reader’s mind.
(a) We do not learn from history because
our studies are brief and prejudiced.
(b) In a surprising manner, 250 years
emerges as the average length of national
greatness.
(c) This average has not varied for 3,000
years. Does it represent ten generations?
(d) The stages of the rise and fall of great
nations seem to be:
The Age of Pioneers (outburst)
The Age of Conquests
The Age of Commerce
The Age of Affluence
The Age of Intellect
The Age of Decadence.
(e) Decadence is marked by:
Defensiveness
Pessimism
Materialism
Frivolity
An influx of foreigners
The Welfare State
A weakening of religion.
(f) Decadence is due to:
Too long a period of wealth and power
Selfishness
Love of money
The loss of a sense of duty.
(g) The life histories of great states are
amazingly similar, and are due to internal
factors.
(h) Their falls are diverse, because they are
largely the result of external causes.
(i) History should be taught as the history
of the human race, though of course with
emphasis on the history of the student’s own
country.

>>17942808
I hold the belief that political the thought of a writer directly impacts what they write. I think it's stupid that people separate writer and work since one's complementary to the other.
If you don't want to read them, since they don't touch on economics, it's fine.
They're just a bit like Nietzsche and his influence on NatSoc ideology.