/lit/ - Literature

I am very interested in the subject

>>22659570
who is the guy on the right?

The Illiad is about Nords who looked like this laying waste to a wretched hive of Anatolian Meds.

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>>22659589
>The Iliad is about Meds who looked like this laying waste to a wretched hive of Anatolian Meds who still surpassed Nords by millennia
ftfy
Meds had blond hair and blue eyes before Nords even existed. Cope

I too am interested in the history of outdated farming equipment

>>22659620
Good morning saar!

>>22659589
this is what nords were doing when iliad was composed btw

>>22659570
The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire.

'Tacitus, who absolutely wants to see in the heroes of his pamphlet nothing but esteemed savages, has distorted everything he tells of them in terms of civilization (1). He portrays them as philosophical bandits. But apart from the fact that he often contradicts himself, and that other contemporary testimony, of at least equal value to his own, allows us to re-establish the truth of the facts, we only have to contemplate the results of excavations carried out in the oldest tombs of the North in order to re-establish the truth of the facts. convince that, in spite of the emphatic proclamations of Agrippa's son-in-law, the Germans, these heroes whom he rightly celebrates, were neither poor, nor ignorant, nor barbarian [...]'
But, even accepting that, fact wrong as it is admitted, that the Germanics had this instict of brutes, these were no disorders to be invented in the 5th Century. Everything of that genre had existed already before, by herself, Roman society had already abolished everything that had once made it's glory. Nothing can be compared to it's stupor other than her impotence. Of the utilitarian genius of the Etruscans and the Italiots, of the hot and vivid imagination of the Semites there was nothing left but the art of making solid monuments without taste, and of plainly repeating, like a rambling old man, great things another time invented. In the place of writers and of sculptors there were nothing but pedants and masons, so that the Barbarians could oppress nothing for talents, spirit, elegant manners, everything was gone before they arrived. What was, in physics and in [...]

>>22659622
You raise an interesting point. Western Euros (Nords were pretty irrelevant) using the discoveries Meds made, like science and all that, can create pretty advanced civilization but at the end they are killed by them. Look where their countries are now due to their economies and excess comforts.

>>22659638
cont.
'[...] and in morals, a Roman of the 3rd, 4th and 5th Century? A middle sized man, weak in constitution and appearance, generally debased, carrying in his blood a little bit of every conceivable race, believing himself to be the first man of the universe, and to demonstrate it, insolent, rampant, ignorant, thief, depraved, ready to sell his sister, his daughter, his wife, his country and his master, and with an incomparable fear towards poverty, towards suffering, towards tiredness and death. For the rest, not doubting that the globe and it's entire procession of planets had been made for him alone.
In face of this despicable being, what was the Barbarian? A blonde haired man, of white and rosy skin, broad shouldered, great in stature, vigorous like Alcibiades, fear-instilling like Theseus, righteous, adaptable, without fearing anything in the world, and death less than anything else. This Leviathan had on all the things ideas that were right or wrong, but who were reasoned, intelligent and that wanted to extend themselves. He had, in his nationality, nourished his spirit with a refined and severe religion, with a wise politics, with a glorious history. Able to reflect, he understood that the Roman civilization was richer than his own and he wanted to find out why. This wasn't a trampling infant like is ordinarily imagined, but an adolescent well aware about his positive interests, who knew well how to feel, see, compare, judge, prefer. When the vain and miserable Roman opposed his trickery to the rivaling ingenuity of the Barbarian, who decided the victory? The fist of the second. Falling like a mass of iron on the skull of the poor nephew of Remus, this muscular fist teached the latter where strength had gone. And how did the crushed Roman take revenge? He cried, he yelled to the future Centuries that he was going to revenge the oppressed civilization [...]'

>>22659645
>teached

>>22659641
>The first retarded ape man who picked metal out a campfire gets to claim everything made with it
Med '''inventions''' were just massive slave work forces. Zero hyperborean spirit, low iq and weak physicality, and lacking the apollonian aspect that characterises germanic man; that being the best at any thing they set their minds to.

>>22659715
>massive slave work forces
huh? even fucking norway had 100,000 people in 1 CE. All of Europe was densely populated, in fact Bronze Age Italy, Greece and Spain were likely less populated. Only the Levant was densely populated since the Bronze Age
Nords had arguably bigger slave forces and more peasants working for the jarl/chieftain

>lacking the apollonian aspect that characterises germanic man
Germans are Dionysian mainly. That's why they gave Romans some trouble but were generally disorganized
>that being the best at any thing they set their minds to
yet brits and french were overall better, and the most exemplary germanic peoples (nords) were irrelevant in basically all of history and it was central and western euros doing all the lifting
nice cope lmao

>>22659570
Tonio Kröger, Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice etc. The internal battle between the Nord and the Med is a recurring theme in Thomas Mann's works.

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>>22659589
My honest reaction (me on the left btw)

>>22659590
topkek
based

>>22659570
It's not about Nordics against Mediterraneans, but about Latins and Germanics ––barbarism and civilization.

>>22659622
> are they refugees or identitarians
Fucking kek

there is a pepe for every season

>>22659960
Pic related is all the med who are strong enough to lift 500kg

>>22659622
I love that when its time to pretend like Germanics did all that stuff, suddenly America and the British Empire are awesome and not just jew puppets…

>>22659570
Wuthering Heights, if you consider gypsies as med. In the film adaptations Heathcliff's always been portrayed by med-looking actors, anyway.