Strong in body = strong in spirit, heart and mind.

This one hits real hard..

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Empire of Greatness

Why would it be any different?

Dyonekes of The 300 said to his fellow Spartans: “You fight for the man beside you.” What does this have to do with Kipling’s quite more than two millennia later ? 👇🏽 In the context of battle there is a dissolution of the individual into the group, from which springs the unit or männerbund (alliance of men). This is not a ‘democracy’ but a small unit of elites, each of whom would die for the other in order to live forever in the hearts and minds of their comrades. In times of war, such a cohesive instinct prevails. The rational, hesitant, self-preserving mind, and anyone operating from that kind of individualist paradigm, is eliminated.  ➡️ Warrior cultures spur men onward and drive each other upward by embodying and amplifying excellence. To be clear, this is not the narcissistic urge for self-aggrandizement, but the desire to earn the good opinion of their fellows, and benefit them. Men become great individually so that they may be great collectively. This is how the individual inspires their comrades and vice-versa.  ➡️ "The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack." - Rudyard Kipling

We will build a new West, out on the planes of digital freedom. And when we’ve conquered that land, we will come back and reclaim meatspace.

Inspired by the Nietzsche quote I posted a few days ago:

The wisdom of responsibility

The failure that is democracy:

IYKYK

The Age of Fiat is Over. A new era begins.

Powerful Nietzsche Quote (on running from the inner voice): “All of us know in individual moments how the most extensive arrangements of our own lives are made only in order to flee from our true task; how we like to hide our heads somewhere, as though our hundred-eyed conscience would not find us there; how we hasten to sell our soul to the state, to money-making, to social life, or to scholarship just so that we will no longer possess it; how even in our daily work we slave away without reflection and more ardently than is necessary to make a living because it seems to us necessary not to stop and reflect. Haste is universal because everyone is fleeing from himself; universal, too, is the timid concealment of this haste, because we want to appear satisfied and deceive the most perceptive observers about our wretchedness; universal, as well, the need for new sounding word bells with which life can be adorned and lent an air of noisy festivity. Everyone is familiar with the peculiar state in which unpleasant memories suddenly force themselves upon us and we make an effort to drive them out our heads by means of violent gestures and sounds; but the gestures and sounds of common life indicate that all of us always find ourselves in such a fear of memory and of turning inward. What is it that assails us so often, what mosquito is this that refuses to let us sleep? Ghostly things are occurring ground us, every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear this ghostly voice. When we are quiet and alone we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear, and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability.”

Always was. Always will be the case.

There are three types of people in this world: ➡️ Those who make things happen ➡️ Those who watch things happen ➡️ Those who wonder wtf happened The world is full of the latter (80%). It is home to many of those who watch (80% of the 20%). Leaving very few of the ones who make things happen (20% of the 20%). Why? Because it's hard. Because it's painful. Because it's full of sacrifice. But...this is the price for life of meaning and fulfilment worthy of a legacy. If you want the consistent feeling of happiness, which is fleeting, be a part of the 80% - because ignorance is bliss.

The line between genius and madness is very fine - and greatness is a synthesis of both.

“Pray to god, but row to shore” - A wise Russian proverb

Meaning is everything

Truth and facts