Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
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Beyond the stir and tumult of defeated dreams
Joined January 2022
The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by H.L Mencken is now live on amazon The book is newly typeset with my additional notes, commentary, and a few corrections Please follow @bastard_books, where I will be tweeting more about upcoming books/publishing projects link below
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Language fails, we gesture towards the void and settle down into quiet and indifference.
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I feel here that I am never lost, that my language will never seem a barbarous tongue. But with all others on this earth, there is something strange and incommunicable between us, some unbridgable distance that forever divides.
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I don't think I have lofty nationalistic sentiments; I don't necessarily believe America is a finer place than anywhere else, but I have always felt that America is my home, and that I am borne back to this country--eternally and inevitably--like waves and rivers to the sea.
Whenever people express very lofty nationalistic sentiments I feel like I am seeing an alien life-form. Never felt in my whole life any feeling that the fatherland had any good in and of itself.
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To my critics: why is Doryphoros or Myron Discobolus fit for aesthetic contemplation, and this is not? What do you think was the inspiration for such statues? Was it not a living man of flesh and bone?
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Probably the only kind of religious symbol I would ever wear--initiates of the esoteric feline mystery cult, etc.
Amethyst cat amulet from the Ptolemaic Period (300 - 30 BC).
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I went to the Bronx a few months ago, and probably only 10% of residents spoke English (mostly heritage blacks). Otherwise, it's essentially a South American colony functioning entirely in Spanish
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Cioran on judging the quality of a philosopher: “We measure his fecundity by the possibilities he affords us of continually repudiating him without exhausting him.”
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Jung: “Zarathustra is the greatness in Nietzsche, the demon …”
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X algorithms severely disfavor small accounts now. At moment more than before many small accounts are yelling into void. All tl shows is same story/tweet variation over and over from big party line accounts. If you big, pls try promote small interesting accounts
America used to identify and nurture types like Mulholland, and reward their skill and public mindedness w power and influence. Today, the govt not only ignores them, it harasses and suppresses them w thru private DEI policies and anti white legislation.
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This kind of logical incongruence enough to drive you insane and is reason month names are so unintuitive
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Should go back to the original roman calendar with new year in march. Nonsensical to have the new year (a time of renewal and rebirth) be in January (beginning of winter). Additionally, the modern calendar makes hogwash of the months: (Octo)ber (8) is the 10th month? Absurd
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Hitler was a Greek and was a believer, actualizer, of the principle of κλέος ἄφθιτον—now fully immortalized among a very short list. "Might is right" is a tautology, not a moral or ethical "belief". You're a moron, not even ensouled
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Schopenhauer outlines “tetragamy”—a new kind of marital arrangement
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I think this reading is somewhat marred by Jung's attempt to mush Nietzsche into his own framework, but still interesting to consider
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Some of Jung's commentary on this chapter
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