>"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it." Is he right?

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Anonymous Mon Nov 4 11:41:24 2019 No.14111320 [Reply] [Original]

>"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
Is he right?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 4 11:43:37 2019 No.14111333 >>14111320 Couldn’t be. He was retroactively refuted.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 4 11:45:58 2019 No.14111354 >>14111320 Based

Anonymous Mon Nov 4 11:49:20 2019 No.14111377
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>>14111320
>The easiest path to aesthetic dominance is mere truth. Above all, one feature makes any story ugly: lies. Most regimes are destroyed by their own accumulated mendacity, which renders them ugly, and undermines the aesthetic foundations of their support.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 4 11:50:55 2019 No.14111387 >>14111377 The United States is done for them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 4 11:57:43 2019 No.14111433 >>14111387 In due time, yeah.

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