Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt

Maritimism vs Continentalism

The emergence of a German nation-state is just output from Frederick the Great, who's basically following the response of Frederick the Soldier King after the Peace of Westphalia.

After the collapse of "universal monarchies," both France and Spain are out of the "continental superpower" business.

Between the Anglos' victory lap and the German consolidation, you basically have the table set for WWI. And so on and so on.

Most of history after 1700 just seems like follow-through to me. Like the American revolution, the Spirit of '48, and the march of liberalism just seems like a victory la(r)p for the Protestant Republics after the Glorious Revolution.

If you were the Onion writer who coined one of the classics, would it be more psychologically healthy to think that Apollo had cursed you with prophecy, or that your darkest moments of cynicism had actually ripped off the superfices of reality and exposed the cyclical and patterned qualities of human depravity?

There is wonder-working power in the precious blood of the lamb.

There is power in the blood. Wonder-working power. Would you be free from your passionate pride?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVg30U6O764&ab_channel=MenITrust

The Wilsonian premises of statehood are institutional cover for segregationist and eliminationist projects that proved useful to the grand strategy of north Atlantic powers during their 20th century struggle with a Central Eurasian power.

Orange crate art was a place to start.

https://www.openculture.com/2019/10/a-collection-of-vintage-fruit-crate-labels.html

OPEN ARE THE DOUBLE DOORS OF THE HORIZON
UNLOCKED ARE ITS BOLTS

Normies like to say something is "extremely complicated" when actually it can be described with two or three uncommon-to-obscure terms. People simply don't have good vocabularies and it hinders their capacities to reason about the phenomena around them.

Anyway, read books.

Open are the double doors of the horizon
Unlocked are its bolts

I am working with a highly disorganized person in a semi-superior position. She keeps trying to put things on my schedule 1 day in advance in bizarre and unhelpful times that force me to cancel on her. So far I've been very apologetic and helping her to save face, but I think I'm going to stop helping her save face pretty soon.

I think that east asian cultures may have a good angle with this dynamic.

Kinda showed my cards to a colleague by mentioning that I like Machiavelli. Whoopsie poopsie.

People ask me, "How do you know about that?" And I tell them, "I know what knives and spoons are. I know what the Steven Universe wiki is."

Suppose you want to play along with the "icebergs know about climate change" game. What bets would you place differently? How could anyone use this information to get superior resolution to the dissonances of everyday experience?

Small brain eco-humanist: "if melting is a kind of 'behavior', and if ice has to 'know' the temperature in order to begin the 'behavior' of melting, then it's like we can define ice as knowing about climate change!"

It's a sad statement about the eco-humanist academy that they feel they need to rewrite causality in terms of knowledge.

It's also sad that in the pursuit of an inhuman semiotic they overlook the warrant of Peircean pragmatism: that this shit matters inasmuch as its cash-value.