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IT IS TIME 3 years of research, 17,000 tweets, and 100s of old books later, I present to you: Hit Reverse: New Ideas From Old Books My absolute best threads and a lot of new writing packed in 64 chapters... 244 pages. 750+ insights. ORDER:

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I sometimes think "The Young Napoleon Bonaparte Studying At The Military Academy" is the hardest painting of all time

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Tucker Carlson: "Moscow has not been degraded by postmodern architecture that destroys your spirit" Chris Cuomo: "You believe postmodern architecture is designed to kill your spirit?!" Tucker: "Of course." Cuomo: "Why?" Tucker's answer will blow your mind. A rant for the ages:

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Elon Musk very different beast than his BBC interviewer Elon clearly driven by a sense of destiny - he says twitter HAD to be brought, the PAIN LEVEL of running it is high, but all is well that ENDS well The reporter's brain is overwhelmed by the desire to conform - "people…

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Only Ayn Rand was smart enough to predict that incompetence and an ENVY for excellence will lead to dystopian social outcomes. Orwell thought we'd need total mind control, Huxley thought we'd need a permanently drugged populace, but Rand knew: all you need is resentment

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Napoleon was a master orator But we would NOT know this without Balzac In 1838, Balzac went through all of Napoleon speeches And saved his best insights in a book 10 bangers from the king👇🏻 1/ "I found the Crown of France lying in the gutter, and picked it up with my sword."

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This banger has haunted me for years

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This banger has haunted me for years

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I sometimes think "The Young Napoleon Bonaparte Studying At The Military Academy" is the hardest painting of all time

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The Unabomber Manifesto🧵 Ted Kaczynski’s IQ: 167 Harvard admission: At 15 Youngest ever math prof, UCB: At 25 Money spent by FBI to find him: $50+ mil The manifesto attacks modern civilization like nothing else before or since 13 best insights from a Philosopher-Terrorist👇🏻

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Beauty is unbearable to the spiritually ugly

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#BREAKING : Climate activists have poured black dye into the historic Trevi Fountain, in Rome. These acts of vandalism can potentially damage the white stone, and have been roundly condemned throughout Italy. Will there be prosecution by the government?

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This banger has haunted me for years

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This banger has haunted me for years

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Why is a man worth $6.2 billion trying to tell me communism works

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Let me help you out and give you my thoughts on DEI 1. Diversity Good businesses look where others don't, to find the employees that will put your business in the best possible position to succeed. You may not agree, but I take it as a given that there are people of various…

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C.S. Lewis almost died in the trench warfare of WW-I Became best friends with Tolkien Sold 100 million books On the cusp of WW-II, he gave an iconic lecture at Oxford University (1939) His question: Does beauty matter when bombs start falling? THIS is his profound answer👇🏻

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The Unabomber Manifesto🧵 Ted Kaczynski’s IQ: 167 Harvard admission: At 15 Youngest ever math prof, UCB: At 25 Money spent by FBI to find him: $50+ mil The manifesto attacks modern civilization like nothing else before or since 14 best insights from a Philosopher-Terrorist👇🏻

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Conor McGregor's brain runs on thousand year old software. Victory in battle, dominion over land, shit-talking with bros, and safety for his kids. That's ALL he understands. From fixing bathroom pipes to lifting UFC belts, he's a Man of Action like no other. His political…

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10 concepts that explain the modern world 1. Parkinson’s Law: Companies become bigger and worse over time. Clerks manufacture work for each other as overall capacity dips. When British Navy ships went down from 68 to 20, officials increased by 78%. 2. Chesterton Fence: If you…

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Only Ayn Rand was smart enough to predict that incompetence and an ENVY of excellence will lead to dystopian social outcomes. Orwell thought we'd need total mind control, Huxley thought we'd need a permanently drugged populace, but Rand knew: all you need is resentment

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John Fowles explains in "The Aristos" (1964) how high IQ can subvert your will to act: "High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis." Rule 1: Do not lose the will

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The Nerd-Jock Dichotomy Is False Let me show you 10 writers who lived like action heroes 1/ Ernst Jünger

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SOURCE of modern man's weakness, stupidity, and general lack of vitality? His leisure activities Aldous Huxley predicted the degeneracy of modern amusements in a 103 year old essay: Pleasures (1920) Huxley on why and how to radically rewire the way you spend your free time👇🏻

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In 1997, Hans Eysenck died the most cited psychologist in the world. THEN he was posthumously cancelled. An enquiry said his work was "unsafe" Code for "problematic but TRUE" Eysenck studied human intelligence and discovered 8 traits common to geniuses across history. A thread:

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SOURCE of modern man's weakness, stupidity, and general lack of vitality? His leisure activities Aldous Huxley predicted the degeneracy of modern amusements in a 103 year old essay: Pleasures (1920) Huxley on why and how to radically rewire the way you spend your free time👇🏻

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Richard Dawkins when he disproves God and within 2 decades his side is worshipping at the DEI shrine, using made-up pronouns like religious mantras, and firing professors for saying men cant get pregnant

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I sometimes think "The Young Napoleon Bonaparte Studying At The Military Academy" is the hardest painting of all time

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David Fincher hates that he made Tyler Durden look cool. Alan Moore hates that he made Rorschach look cool. It's funny how many based characters are born because their creators failed to "subvert" them. Archetypes are more powerful than their modern deconstructions

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In 1997, Hans Eysenck died the most cited psychologist in the world. THEN he was posthumously cancelled. An enquiry said his work was "unsafe" Code for "problematic but TRUE" Eysenck studied human intelligence and discovered 8 traits common to geniuses across history. A thread:

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H.L. Mencken hated modernity, opposed the New Deal, and was against American entry into WW-II His productivity was legendary: he wrote more than 10 million words over his lifetime... Mencken's most powerful idea: Democracy is not a solution but a PROBLEM A thread👇🏻

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The young arent driving, fucking, and drinking because high energy activity is fundamentally incompatible with modern ethics. If you're always told to be harmless (but also guilty!) then your innate will to power withers. You vegetate. Man, the greatest animal, turned to plant

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John Fowles explains in "The Aristos" (1964) how high IQ can subvert your will to act: "High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis." Rule 1: Do not lose the will

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Only Ayn Rand was smart enough to predict that incompetence and an ENVY for excellence will lead to dystopian social outcomes. Orwell thought we'd need total mind control, Huxley thought we'd need a permanently drugged populace, but Rand knew: all you need is resentment

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2/ Napoleon on Equality: "Equality exists only in theory." No man-made political programs can reverse the innate inequality of nature: "Social law can give all men equal rights. Nature will never give them equal faculties."

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Alexander the Great won 9 battles Julius Caesar won 16 Napoleon? THIRTY EIGHT 17 of them with impossible odds Half a dozen EMPIRES had to join hands to stand a chance against him Yet his wife slept with other men The tragic love story of one of the greatest men of all time:

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@tim_cook "our aim is to permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere." Excuse me? Without carbon all lifeforms will fucking DIE

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Thinking about this banger

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Current Era is a mass extinction event for normies. Tradition existed for the average person's psychic protection and without it they'll reliably go crazy. In 500 years humanity will be a much more extreme species with the middle of the bell curve completely eradicated

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what opinion will you defend like this?

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Issac Newton was an alchemist. Alan Turing thought telepathy is real. It's undeniable at this point that people at the upper bounds of intelligence are quasi-mystics. A material universe made of inert atoms is for midwits only

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1/ Napoleon on freedom: "If one analyses it, political freedom is an accepted myth thought up by those governing to put the governed to sleep." Power is always concentrated at the top - Different political systems and doctrines are merely different ways of hiding this fact

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3/ Napoleon on being too precautious: "The torment of precaution is worse than the dangers it seeks to avoid: it is better to abandon yourself to destiny." The compulsive need to preempt and predict all problems is its own type of hell Over preparation is cowardice by proxy

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Dostoevsky🧵 A literary rockstar at 24 Almost gets executed by a firing squad at 28 Exiled to Siberia Returns to write some of the greatest novels ever In his lesser-known letters and essays, we get a more intimate look at what he loved, hated, fiercely believed in Dig in👇🏻

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C.S. Lewis almost died in the trench warfare of WW-I Became best friends with Tolkien Sold 100 million books On the cusp of WW-II, he gave an iconic lecture at Oxford University (1939) His question: Does beauty matter when bombs start falling? THIS is his profound answer👇🏻

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10/ Napoleon on Courage: "Courage can't be counterfeited - it's a virtue which escapes hypocrisy." You can pretend to be kind You can pretend to be intelligent But you can't pretend to be brave Courage is unfakeable

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1/ Kaczynski lists the 4 big problems with modern civilization: - “Excessive density of population” - “Isolation of man from nature” - “Excessive rapidity of social change” - “The breakdown of natural small-scale communities such as the extended family, the village, the tribe”

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G.K. Chesterton's best book: Orthodoxy (1908) Here are its 10 best ideas: 1/ Love precedes lovability: "Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her."

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Alexander the Great won 9 battles Julius Caesar won 16 Napoleon? THIRTY EIGHT 17 of them with impossible odds Half a dozen EMPIRES had to join hands to stand a chance against him Yet his wife slept with other men The tragic love story of one of the greatest men of all time:

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You're looking at a 463 year old painting... That contains 126 hidden messages (that we've been able to count...) This painting is "The Topsy Turvy World" by Bruegel And it has the earliest illustration of the *Blue Pill* Discover this painting's top ten hidden insights 👇🏻

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You think YOUR life is hard but at least you're not a liberal polsci professor who has to explain to students why the TOP TWO political success stories of the 2020s are a police state (El Salvador) and an extremist libertarian regime (Argentina). Imagine the mental gymnastics

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🇦🇷 ARGENTINA: With Milei’s decree deregulating the housing market, the supply of rental units in Buenos Aires has doubled - with prices falling by 20%.

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Philosophy's boldest line: "God is Dead" Everyone on the internet misunderstands it... A thread on what Nietzsche actually meant (and why it matters):

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As the world gets crazier, there is one name you will hear more often: Nicolás Gómez Dávila He wrote 1 book. Published ONLY a 100 copies... But he's the best teacher on why societies need MYTHS to live Without myths, collapse is inevitable A thread👇🏻

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10 concepts that explain the modern world 1. Parkinson’s Law: Companies become bigger and worse over time. Clerks manufacture work for each other as overall capacity dips. When British Navy ships went down from 68 to 20, officials increased by 78%. 2. Chesterton Fence: If you…

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The Pointless Beauty Metric: We should judge a civilization by how much beauty it infuses into places where it's not "needed": Staircases, train stations, wells... A healthy civilization isnt the one with the highest GDP, but the one with the energy to fight ugliness & entropy

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James Burnham Thread 🧵 The Managerial State (1941) by Burnham nails the world we live in 70+ years ago, Burnham saw that capitalism would die And socialism WON'T replace it Instead, a new elite will take over - The Managers Top 10 insights👇🏻

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Only Ayn Rand was smart enough to predict that incompetence and an ENVY for excellence will lead to dystopian social outcomes. Orwell thought we'd need total mind control, Huxley thought we'd need a permanently drugged populace, but Rand knew: all you need is resentment

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The most canceled woman in the world: Camille Paglia In Sexual Personae, she attacks liberalism, feminism, and Nature-worship like no other writer before or since On her 76th birthday today, discover her insights on why science is cope, how civilization is masculine, and more👇🏻

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10 paradoxical truths from 10 brilliant men 1. C.S. Lewis: Originality is best attained via copying. 2. Nietzsche: Compassion is a psyop designed by the weak to redirect resources from the most deserving to the least. 3. Chesterton: You need to hate the world enough to change…

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As the world gets crazier, there is one name you will hear more often: Nicolás Gómez Dávila He wrote 1 book. Published ONLY a 100 copies... But he's the best teacher on why societies need MYTHS to live Without myths, collapse is inevitable A thread👇🏻

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My favorite Chesterton idea is that you don't need the middle path but a marriage of extremes. You need to be intensely invested yet totally relaxed at the same time. Hate the world enough to change it, love it enough to consider it worth changing. Not balance but insane juggling

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My favorite Chesterton idea is that you don't need the middle path but a marriage of extremes. You need to be intensely invested yet totally relaxed at the same time. Hate the world enough to change it, love it enough to consider it worth changing. Not balance but insane juggling

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The fact that El Salvador's total transformation isn't being studied in political science classrooms (and won't be) tells you why universities are no longer the place where important questions are asked and answered

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Strong men create good times…

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9 reasons why aristocracy beats democracy 1. The Pyramid Problem. Will Durant said there are grand tasks “requiring generations” of coordination and democracy is utterly incapable of them. A democratically elected leader can never build a Pyramid. 2. The Freedom Paradox. Durant…

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This pic of Peter Thiel walking into an Oxford Union debate goes hard

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5/ Napoleon on how to POLICE: "The art of the police consists in punishing rarely and severely" Power should mostly be invisible from people's everyday lives: "Authority should make itself felt as little as possible and should not weigh on the people needlessly"

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It is 1928 One professor writes a best-selling parenting guide... THEN 3 of his own kids commit suicide Meet John Watson: the father of Behaviorism A story of scientific arrogance, the meaning of love, and one "expert" with blood on his hands👇🏻

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"In 1952, 3 cars out of 4 sold were either red, green, or blue. Today, 3 cars out of 4 sold are either white, grey, or black."

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Dostoevsky🧵 A literary rockstar at 24. Almost executed by a firing squad at 28... Exiled to Siberia. Returns to write some of the greatest books ever... In his lesser-known letters and essays, we get a more intimate look at what he loved, hated, fiercely believed in Dig in👇🏻

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@BritMartinez It actually should be supremely easy to compete with AI "girlfriends"

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You're looking at a 464 year old painting... That contains 126 hidden messages (that we've been able to count...) This painting is The Topsy Turvy World by Bruegel And it has the earliest illustration of the *Blue Pill* Discover this painting's top ten HIDDEN insights 👇🏻

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James Burnham was a Marxist activist who led psychological warfare for the CIA THEN he took a hard turn to the right Burnham saw that capitalism would die and socialism won't replace it Instead, a tyranny of bureaucrats will infest politics, culture, all of life... Thread👇🏻

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Chesterton made a wild prediction in 1905: The modern world will forget basic truths. Came true. 2+2 = 4? Harvard statisticians beg to differ. What is a woman? No idea. Chesterton predicted a "great march of mental destruction. He said we'd fight wars over whether grass is green

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H.P. Lovecraft transformed the horror genre, wrote 100,000+ letters to frens, and was, above all, a soulful aristocrat. On his 132th birthday, let's explore his attacks on democracy, his critique of our modern priorities, and what he believed civilization MUST aim at 👇🏻

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1/ Kaczynski lists the 4 big problems with modern civilization: - “Excessive density of population” - “Isolation of man from nature” - “Excessive rapidity of social change” - “The breakdown of natural small-scale communities such as the extended family, the village, the tribe”

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It's amazing that Jordan Peterson delivered his most based material inside a fucking university. And now that he has infinite wealth he can only deliver platitudes.

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SOURCE of modern man's weakness, stupidity, and general lack of vitality? His leisure activities Aldous Huxley predicted the degeneracy of modern amusements in a 103 year old essay: Pleasures (1920) Huxley on why and how to radically rewire the way you spend your free time👇🏻

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Issac Newton was an alchemist. Alan Turing thought telepathy is real. It's undeniable at this point that people at the upper bounds of intelligence are quasi-mystics. A material universe made of inert atoms is for midwits only

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This banger is the best definition of marriage I've ever read

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> When you realize your libtard worldview leads to hellish architecture and if you say anything to defend it, then Tucker will hit you with his loud autist laugh

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2/ If we waited for peace to create art the first cave painting would still not be made Always some “imminent danger” looking more important than culture Lewis: “If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun”

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Great men are more afraid of the consequences of inaction than the consequences of action, and for everyone else it's the reverse

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I sometimes think "The Young Napoleon Bonaparte Studying At The Military Academy" is the hardest painting of all time

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Thinking about this banger

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2/ The big difference between the primitive civilization and our contemporary world is that before, individuals had a lot of autonomy while the state was largely powerless to penetrate into the everyday life of people Kaczynski argues that modern tech suddenly flips this balance

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Dostoevsky🧵 A literary rockstar at 24 Almost gets executed by a firing squad at 28 Exiled to Siberia Returns to write some of the greatest novels ever In his lesser-known letters and essays, we get a more intimate look at what he loved, hated, fiercely believed in Dig in👇🏻

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4/ Napoleon on the French Revolution: "The nobility would have survived if it had known how to master the writing desk" Public opinion ended nobility as much as violent force The nobles failed to convince the public that they served a valuable role Media always matters...

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9/ Past as immunity from new-age BS: “A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore…immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press of his own age.”

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8/ Kaczynski devotes a large chunk of his manifesto attacking leftism But in a powerful paragraph, he argues that the conservatives are fools too Full quote:

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Ancient Rome was the world's most powerful empire for 500 years At its height, Rome boasted of roads, public baths, and much else that was close to miraculous for the rest of the planet Then came the Great Fall... What happened has lessons for the world TODAY A thread👇🏻

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@chronononono Exception-cels don't disprove the Rule-chads But that's a crazy story

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7/ Napoleon on genius: "Misfortune is the midwife of genius." No training module or a certified program can pull out a person's best like a brush with tragedy can

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10 paradoxical truths from 10 brilliant men 1. C.S. Lewis: Originality is best attained via copying. 2. Nietzsche: Compassion is a psyop designed by the weak to redirect resources from the most deserving to the least. 3. Chesterton: "You need to hate the world enough to change…

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Ancient Rome was the world's most powerful empire for 500 years At its height, Rome boasted of roads, public baths, and much else that was close to miraculous for the rest of the planet Then came the Great Fall... What happened has lessons for the world TODAY A thread👇🏻

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Solzhenitsyn was born today, 105 years ago... 10 insights from a 1978 speech he gave at Harvard that everyone (especially its current President) should read: 1. Solzhenitsyn wrote that "fashionable trends of thought" in the West censor more than U.S.S.R. ever did. 2. Modern…

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4/ Uncle Ted on how modern life STEALS your sense of agency: “Primitive man, threatened by a fierce animal, can fight in self-defense…the modern individual is threatened by many things against which he is helpless: nuclear accidents, carcinogens in food, increasing taxes.”

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9 reasons why aristocracy beats democracy 1. The Pyramid Problem. Will Durant said there are grand tasks “requiring generations” of coordination and democracy is utterly incapable of them. A democratically elected leader can never build a Pyramid. 2. The Freedom Paradox. Durant…

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Jash Dholani

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5 great critics of modernity: • Nietzsche • GK Chesterton • James Burnham • Aldous Huxley • Julius Evola Who would you add to the list?

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FIGHT CLUB is a story of men breaking out of the longhouse no matter the loss of blood, reputation, and sanity. It shows how the grimy floor of a parking lot can be more satisfying and honest than an air conditioned cubicle. The arc of civilization bends towards men snapping

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4/ C.S. Lewis on why humans are a truly unique species: "Men propound mathematical theorems in beleaguered cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on scaffolds, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature."

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You can ignore symbols, BUT your enemies will not Communists did not... After taking power, the first thing communists did was INVERT the meaning of 3 traditional symbols Julius Evola explains in a 1928 essay: The Inversion Of Symbols Dig in👇🏻

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