Conscript: boohoo war sucks so much
Volunteer: *Snatches rifle, shoots man at 600m*
Conscript: everything is so bad
Volunteer: *Storms machine gun nest, drinks oily gun cooling water*
Conscript: it's all so horrible
Volunteer: rages that his own artillery has blocked his advance
remember the time a Cruel Clerk refused to date fat women, got dogpiled, poasted phyzeek and was banned? That was the samurai spirit. That was BUSHIDO.
Here are some impressive old artworks which I don't think make the rounds very often
Cardinal Richelieu at the Siege of La Rochelle by Henri-Paul Motte, 1881
lmao, comment about picture drawn by a boy 700 years ago of him being a knight: 'why are there corpses? was he processing trauma?'
NO, YOU SCHOOLMARM, THOSE ARE THE CORPSES OF HIS ENEMIES
Daily reminder that boys who do badly in school because sitting still for 8 hours a day is not in their remit are surprised when, as men, the military gives them an IQ test and many do well, and the military is the only org that recognizes their innate quality (for good or ill)
When the samurai finalized their control over japan, they made it illegal for people of the other classes in society to wear fancy clothes. Merchants, who had enough money to afford fancy clothes, would have ornate linings in their jackets, but plain facing.
Ernst Jünger killed quite a few people in WWI, but he never mocked their corpses or felt the need to go "HAHA YOU'RE DEAD". In fact, he often remarked on how fit or neat his dead foes were. It contrasts oddly with treatment of death in recent wars by armchair fighters.
"historical movies need to be colorless because history was dark, or because 'art'"
The movie Ran, directed by Kurosawa, who originally worked in black and white, gives an example of how historical military color schemes offer amazing opportunities for shot composition.
There is short story called 'Pump Six' where IQ decline is making city worse, protagonist works at sewage plant where the only thing keeping city from drowning in sewage is old pumps built by smarter men long ago that they’re now too stupid to maintain, I think about this often.
90s films liked to mock the stifling office environment and have characters wearing 'cool' clothes to contrast it but the problem is that 90s office drip looked great.
Now everyone wears jeans and a graphic tee and thinks they're God's gift to fashion
Medieval people:
"Ah, bollocks, the first field army was defeated. Ok, enemy king, how about you marry my daughter, I give you a couple towns, and we call it good?"
Modern people:
"TO THE LAST MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD! IF YOU CAN PULL A TRIGGER, GET TO THE FRONT LINE NOW!"
Every civilization builds up a type of man that the Chinese called 'wicked youths' or 'cruel clerks', young layabouts with nothing much to do and endless scorn in their hearts. Such men staffed the armies of warlords, conquistadors, Texas Rangers, and now they accumulate again.
US leaders realizing that modern warfare is just a repeat of WWI and they have about 20,000 frontline infantry with a million useless paperpushers and POGs
Daily reminder to liberals, intelligence is 80-90% heritable and none of your 'social programs' or 'interventions' have ever improved outcomes. The eugenicists were always right.
If you put a Japanese last name or two hyphenated European last names in front of a word, it makes it into a scientific curiosity
Tanaka Sphere
Hoffman-Sokolov Chair
Yamagata Box
Waterman-Jansen Lamp
"A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams."
-Hagakure
During the wars with the Plains Indians in Texas, where Comanches inflicted vicious brutalities on settlers, it was noted that the most fearsome white troops were twenty-somethings who came only to fight, not the family farmers who were getting annihilated by Comanches. wat means
I like when shitlibs say that homeschooling is bad because 'socialization'. Do you really need to spend 6-8 hours a day in a prison complex to be 'socialized'?
@sillyguy1488
the writer was a conscript who wrote a book larping as a gung ho volunteer. junger noted that even in 1918, by the time the nature of the war was well known, new volunteers would vie for the chance to storm a machine gun
Daily reminder that in 1917, Ernst Jünger strode across no man's land in the wake of ferocious German artillery, leading his company of shock troops while carrying in his hands his revolver and riding cane.
I think that the concept of 'PTSD' and 'horrors of war' have been needless conflated
WW1 officer Ernst Jünger said he would always jump when he heard loud noises after the war, and a monk said knights would cry out if they heard the clash of metal, but these were not broken men.
McDonald's Japan anime ads are like artillery shells but the west has dug its trenches as long, straight lines so the blast rips through the entire trench, killing everything.
The Romans trained people in adult jobs from age 16, including doctoring. There is a record of an excellent young Roman doctor, mourned for his early passing. Ernst Jünger noted the care taken by a young orderly on a WWI medical train.
Stop coddling the youth, train them.
When a civilization ossifies, a class of man builds up that the Chinese called 'wicked youths' or 'cruel clerks'. They are young and apathetic, gleaning little of value from the system around them, and either pick their teeth in the market square, or join with warlords.
Daily reminder we used to house insane people in buildings with tall ceilings that got lots of sunlight and had big gardens around them.
Now those buildings rot and we consider ourselves better to have the insane stalking amongst us, shrieking.
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose by John Singer Sargent, 1886
It was painted over a summer by getting in a bit of work for a few minutes each dusk, when the light was perfect
remember the time a Cruel Clerk refused to date fat women, got dogpiled, poasted phyzeek and was banned? That was the samurai spirit. That was BUSHIDO.
I am once again reminding all personnel that until the modern warrior can be proofed against deaths to random bits of shrapnel and demon-drones through full-coverage armor and personal jammers, modern mass warfare must be avoided by the common man.
"hur durr the Romans had lead pipes what idiots"
Your polyester-laced clothing turns your hormone system into an estrogenic pigsty so maybe cool it with the anti-Roman remarks.
Wool is the best material for cold weather and easily beats synthetics. Apart from creating insulation using literal bits of shredded plastic, synthetics actually conduct heat off of the body whereas wool does not. Wool also does not take on odor from sweat quickly.
Most of a person's quality can be assessed in about two hours with an obstacle course and a few mental tests. Liberals do not like this, but it is true.
In the 1400-1600s, the Swiss and Germans were renowned for producing disciplined mercenaries who fought in formations called pike squares. Unlike other forces, they would not break against another pike square, resulting in a horrific clash of men that Italians called "Bad War"
"Welcome to the SS, Miss Thunberg. As promised, here is your MP40, and your strange stuffed squid-thing."
"..."
"If that will be all, I have other business I must attend to. Bonne chance, mon chéri!"
if the west was allowed to just decay naturally, without importing international dross to fake having a civilization, it'd be comfy in its own way. Empty office buildings, empty apartments, empty elevators. a great deal of space that was built for people no longer there.
Feudal Japan and Europe were basically the same thing.
>warrior class that liked swords
>monks who swore off of regular life
>constant wars defined by geography
>slow decline of knights in favor of mass infantry with pointy sticks
>muskets fucked it all up
"I have the big jacket, I am in charge."
"I have the big jacket, I am in charge."
"I have the big jacket, I am in charge."
"I have the big jacket, I am in charge."
Ridley Scott, for the low, low price of 3 million US dollars I will recolor your entire film to not look like you splashed blue ink on all your frames.
The amusing thing about filming this is that the Russians will now disseminate the video amongst their troops, showing that if they surrender they will be killed anyway, thus meaning they will stop bothering to surrender.
Sun Tzu said to give your enemies an out 2000 years ago.
@Fatpantswatch
@MedievalScholar
@0xAlaric
medieval armies were overwhelmingly volunteer forces and losing a war meant the local lord changed rather than in a democracy where your entire society is destroyed.
The fact that men will usually default to owning almost nothing except a bed, a desk, a computer and a weapon proves that the warrior monk is the natural state of man, and domesticity comes from without.
Once, a little boy in Novogrod doodled on birch bark. Over 700 years later we can see his artwork miraculously preserved -- and if you're a parent, you might have something similar up on your fridge!
The boy's name was Onfim, and he dreamed of being a knight (and a monster too).
"Vow, trenches, ve dug so many of these in 1914. It must be easy to dig them vith machines, ve had to do it by hand, you know."
"..."
"I shot a man in ze eye once, a machine gunner. Zen I drank his cooling vater because I vas thirsty."
"..."
"Check out zis beetle I found."
There is a difference between an ingrained physiological response to external stimuli like loud noises, vs being utterly depressed after witnessing horrible things, the latter is not actually guaranteed to happen, the former moreso.
Incidentally, the book Hagakure, which is advice to samurai, says to keep yourself clean and neat because if you die looking slovenly you are embarrassing and your enemies will despise you
it's interesting that Japanese people read a bit of the bible and biotechnological literature and make Neon Genesis Evangelion, or read some Nietzsche and Lovecraft and make Bloodborne, but when westoids read just one book like Dune they fall flat
Fireman's jacket from Japan, ~1900, with interior depicting a scene from a myth where the brother of a goddess saves the daughter of an elderly couple.
Your firemen's jackets do not have interiors depicting myths. YOUR CIVILIZATION IS POOR.
This scene from Heaven and Earth (1990) where a samurai lord loses a duel and guides his victor through finishing him off cannot be matched by anything from modern westoid "gritty and realistic" historical films.
The past had sunshine and color just like we do now.
I like mercenaries. Throughout history they have consistently made great money, including today. Also, abandoning the field when your chosen side is losing, or even switching sides, is brilliant. Maybe command your army better next time, loser.
Lt. Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now may seem an outlandish and insane figure in the war around him, but his behavior was not without precedent. Ernst Jünger had a schedule of sunbathing each morning whilst stationed to command a reserve company of the front line in 1918.
It is a tragedy that modern warfare is just another repeat of WWI. Until the survival and thriving of the individual warfighter can be secured against nonsensical deaths at the mechanical hands of artillery and drones, mass warfare should be avoided by individual men.
the tomboy concept was partially invented by 19th century eugenicists (highest IQ time period) who saw the writing on the wall for the gradual feminization of the entire society, starting with women, and they tried to introduce a novel biotype to alleviate disaster
Japan still has about three times the population it had in 1900. Prediction: Japan will be much better off in 25 years than those countries who replaced their native populations through immigration.
The death of the American Empire allowed heavy industry to recruit intelligent young men to form corps of combat engineers who could work on projects whilst providing their own security. Having once been denied such work, these men were eager to leave a dent on the world.
the idea that the middle ages was full of grind and that the modern office job of 9-5 plus 2 hour commute is better is laughable.
Peasants got more days off a year than you. Those nice churches they had? They were built in people's spare time as side projects.
The grind is FAKE.
Fun fact about life, people have died under a shining sun on a beautiful lush meadow, with every color's saturation turned up to full; the green of the grass, the blue of the flowers, the red of the blood. Is it proper to show death as gray all the time?
I believe clothes that fit tightly to anything except the forearms and lower legs are a psyop. The lindy form of clothing is generally loose-fitting, with some cinching towards the hands and feet.
the biggest problem with small-drone warfare going forward is that the infantry will have to start carrying signal jammers, yet MORE shit to schlep around
"Rome fell because of Christianity!"
"No, Rome fell because it wasn't Christian enough!"
"Neither of you are correct. Rome fell because of dysgenic buildup, like all empires. I'm sending you both to a reeducation facility."
The emergence of full-coverage bulletproof armor necessitated new techniques for infantry fighting, focused mostly around overwhelming opponents with fire or closing the distance to fight in hand-to-hand combat with pistols and blades