Season’s Greetings! Welcome to my First Monthly Classified Thread!
Post, discuss, and advertise projects, writings, products, or anything you like.
If you’ve read so far, you’re already trapped. I DEMAND you post a short review of something you’ve seen/read recently, and something about yourself in the dating section! Each and every one of you, this is your assignment.
I want to breed you mutants. Create all sort of Innsmouthian abominations!🐙
Also Free year’s paid subscription/extension to whoever gets the best flame war going and another to whoever has the best effort-post.
Check out: an undercover spy piloting a spaceship with slide rules because the gov't is too afraid of rogue artificial intelligences to allow her to use an unsupervised computer. Historical reenactors pulled into a fantasy world with monsters that consider them prey . . . or worse. An isolated colony world finds an interstellar empire which maintains control by erasing all books over a lifetime old, and must fight to preserve its freedom and history.
My sculpture has been described as simultaneously futuristic and medieval. I liked that. Originally from Minnesota, I got out just in time and now find myself in the Raleigh area. Check me out online at www.sculptorsam.com or hit me up in person if you're in the area.
To second the commenter below, finding your blog is like when I pulled A Canticle for Leibowitz off the used bookstore shelf years ago. Thanks.
I run a retail shipping business in the Atlanta area. I am interested in warehousing and fulfillment - if any of you are making or selling anything , I would like to be your shipping department. Email me at tobias.magan@yahoo.com.
I host a podcast on the intersection between literature and leadership. It's full of solutions to complicated problems, which is the dragon we're all chasing. And my co-host makes me sound smarter. Check it out on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2UHJkIEj6GXQ9kFTGxUjGc and
I went ahead and started a Substack called Eclectic Journeys. It will feature some short stories. Discussions about legal events (I'm a lawyer, sorry), music reviews and probably some arguments regarding Mormon theology. I have one entry up. I am not looking to monetize at this time. You might enjoy the fist vignette I posted about dealing navigating an insurance claim as a consumer. (I promise its more interesting than it sounds).
My blog long predates Substack and was originally intended just to be a vehicle for quotations I found interesting or amusing - https://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/
Just finished posting a multipart story on Substack about a monk living on Mars. I hope to post creative works regularly and already have an advent one lined up.
My substack posts free short stories taking ideas to their ultimate conclusion. What happens if the Supreme Court is packed to the limit? How would an effective dating app work? If you're caught between a popping real estate bubble and a social media flash mob, could you survive?
My substack is just short quizzes that require finding patterns in trivial knowledge, with meta-answers like “words derived from Hindi” or “names of the five Lisbon sisters”.
If you love cranky Catholic takes on world affairs, you should check out http://notesfromtheendofti.me . It's like Church Militant with less homosexual affairs.
It's not my blog, but it is a blog you all should read if you want based reviews of movies and TV shows. And the comment threads are hilarious. Run by four guys in the UK. https://lastmovieoutpost.com/
Looking for a dutchie or speaker good at selling loicences(safety n risk shit) to companies, have a company that needs to grow and we are too autistic to call up people to say they need to get a loicence from us quick, cheap n easy.
I swear to god, there are female Anarchonomicon readers. I see their Emails on my list... Some even Identify as Femcels!
Post and they will come.
Also, If you have female relatives or friendship circles in any area mentioned you should try to play matchmaker (This is a readership with a (very) impressive lifetime earnings projections)
I have several female relatives scattered about I'm scouting for.
I'm a man, 19, single, Orthodox Christian, in my first year of electrical engineering in Munich. I'm half German, half Spanish/Italian. I grew up in Chile though. I like to read, hike, camp, I did kickboxing for a while and plan to continue sometime soon.
I am 178 cm tall, lean, relatively well muscled and have been told I'm somewhat good looking(by my mother, of course).
Contrary to what one would expect from someone that frequents these kinds of places I'm socially well adjusted, reasonably.
I want to eventually Kaczynski off to the country, have animals and build a bunker(promise I made to my 12 year old self).
64, male living in 20 acres of oaks in Northern Virginia. Lost my wife about 1.5 years ago. Was a Math major in college. Make a living programming computers for scientists from home.
6 feet, could stand to lose about 10 pounds, but healthy. Mostly bald. Full beard going gray. Lift weights and walk.
Served in Christian missions for ~20 years, some of that overseas. About once a month fill in preaching, working to keep my country church faithful to scripture and tradition, against the flow of our denomination and culture. People say they like to hear me speak and sing.
Mind and character were heavily shaped by CS Lewis, Tolkien and Solzhenitsyn. I have read the LOTR around 15 times, including 3x out loud.
Pets: 3 cats and a dog. Outside: 9 chickens, and 3 hives of honeybees. Self sufficient in eggs and honey. My mediocre gardening skills keep me from extending that to much else.
It would be nice to have someone to read to again. (The cats get bored and wander off.)
Dutchman 27, male straight n single n looking to mingle.
As for looks, bit overweight not grosly, would say a bit below the average male height here don't know the specifics, caucasian, brown hair n eyes.
Just graduatiated from some bullshit rich school degree and now looking for fulltime jerb that keeps my autistic ass entertained. Working on trying to get my local libertarian party more based as well.
As for hobbys I would say roleplaying and board games, reading substacks, geting on antifa hitlists for shitposting.
My first idea for a date would probably be a nice bistro in the woods (maybe prepare a bionerd spiel to woo, I know my grandaddy had a lot of shit from his woods walking days) or perhaps a trip to the zoo, they are doing cool night safaris at the moment.
I really enjoy @FromKulak posts. My first was The Problem with Prepping and I was hooked. Alas too much of a prototype or whatever for the dating game.
And Bondarchuk's Incredible English Language epic WATERLOO is also on Youtube... The Largest, arguably best, film ever made is up for free because they screwed up the distribution so badly.
Its region locked in certain countries... but My god. That is a film unlike any other 15,000 extras and bleeding history.
I ploughed through the Bondarchuk War and Peace film this last weekend when I was under the weather. It’s an entrancing piece of some of the best production design, attention to detail, shot composition, and score put to screen. It’s moving, a must watch, and certainly puts the recent Ridley Scott film to shame.
Even having just watched it, I’d happily curl up and watch it again, maybe get some kvas for refreshments.
If you like Bondarchuk, you might also enjoy Abel Gance's 1927 masterful depiction of Napoleon's early life. A 5½ hour cut is available here: https://archive.org/details/napoleon-1927-1080p
but you might want to wait for the 7 hour cut which will release "soon" (was scheduled for 2021 then 2023 ...)
In fact, by the axiom of "old good new bad" it MUST be better than Bondarchuk (who was a dirty commie anyway)
I watched Waterloo after either you or someone else recommended it at the end of a review savaging the Ridley Scott Napoleon film. Very glad I did. Wellington is the role Christopher Plummer was born to play. Would have liked more of a sense of where everything was and how specific actions contributed to the battle itself (e.g. a BECAUSE after "If we lose the farmhouse we lose the battle"), but that's fairly small beer and there's nothing stopping me from finding all that out on Wikipedia. Will check out war & peace, cheers for the link.
I suppose that counts as my review but the one I was going to write was for a much more disappointing series, also about Russia - The Great. A lighthearted comedy roughly based around Catherine the Great arriving in St. Petersburg, deposing Peter III, becoming Tsar and trying to modernise/Enlighten a vast, backward country from within a court filled with aristocrats equal parts insane, useless and thoroughly debauched SHOULD have been brilliant. Unfortunately the costumes and sets are the best part of it. It would take too long to list all the things I ended up rolling my eyes at; suffice to say Peter stole the show so much they had to keep him around until almost the very end (even after the coup), the politics (and gender politics) is so leadenly Current Year American AWFL that the writers did everything short of putting a red baseball cap on Pugachev, and it ends with Catherine, having for no dramatically satisfying reason survived yet another attempt to overthrow her, cutting her hair short and doing a strange dance routine in her audience chamber to AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long. The only thing missing was a bottle of SSRIs on the table.
It's such a shame (and I ended up hatewatching later series and cared enough to write this review) because of the missed opportunity. Allowing for Russian history being unfamiliar to audiences and occasionally lazy writers alike, the first series was pretty OK. It could have done a Blackadder/Carry On and transplanted essentially the same cast to other periods - Antony & Cleopatra, Ferdinand & Isabella of Spain, the Empress Matilda and either of her husbands all suggest themselves. Could have been a funny and intelligent comedy that gets remembered in decades' time. Ah well.
Hedrik Smith's "The New Russians" is an excellent trip through the Gorbachev era of the Soviet Union and delves deeply into the attitudes, habits, hopes and dreams of the people under their governmental system's aspirations and failures. It shows an evolving state, external forces influencing culture which then pushes political windows of acceptance - the journalistic and creative minds involved in new analysis of their state, stories of individuals interactions with a system far larger than themselves, a fractured military, a failed coup - it's all composed by a man who was there and is as impartial and factual account of an ultimate people's victory I've seen yet.
I almost never finish reading books. After more than a year, I read all of The Dictator’s Handbook, which you might enjoy if you’re slightly spectrumy and need math to understand humans. Or if you’re an economist, because every chapter is a dismal explanation of why being a jerk is such a successful strategy.
I'm currently half way through Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy, and it's bringing a lot of things together for me. Mr. Alamariu makes me realize how badly I was miseducated.
An excerpt:
"_Arête_, virtue, excellence, is what undergirds an aristocracy's claim to rule, and excellence is defined first most concretely as prowess in battle and ability to give good counsel, or to put it in Greek traditional language, _andreia_ (manliness, bravery) and _phronesis_ (prudence, practical wisdom)."
On the urging of the author's wife, I read Devon Eriksen's new novel Theft of Fire. It's a good example of "misfit crew on ramshackle ship" space adventures, which is one of my favorite subgenres. My favorite character was a prototype Robin Hanson-style em, which made for an interesting artificial intelligence on the crew. As a professional rocket scientist, I found no holes in the tech big enough to throw me out of the story--all the impossible stuff was clearly labeled as new inventions. I'm looking forward to book two of the trilogy.
I am moments away from finishing John Braine's A View From Tower Hill. Braine has an enviable gift for making the quotidian struggles of ordinary people seem urgent and fascinating. I have not worked out how he does it. He is best known for Room at the Top, made into a movie featuring the brilliant, beautiful Simone Signoret; I recommend both the book and the film without reservation, but know that they are both mercilessly sad.
I just finished the Stephen Mitchell translation of The Iliad, and I thought it was excellent. I hauled a paperback copy of the Richmond Lattimore translation around for years when I was younger and it never grabbed me, but I enjoyed the Mitchell.
Now reading Austen's Persuasion, and I recommend that one too. I like George Eliot a little better than Austen, but the latter is growing on me.
For anyone likes country blues and Americana, check out Cristina Vane. The most recent release is Make Myself Me Again, and it's representative. For trad country, I recommend Colter Wall. My older son turned me on to him.
Not familiar with that one. The gold standard for Iliad and Odyssey is Robert Fagles. Seriously, Lattimore is not at all good. Try Fagles. It is written in poetry form that approximates the original versus the prose style of many translators. Re in all its garding Mitchell, anyone who "translates" such a wide range of works in from many different languages is doing more "interpretation" than translation. It might be good, but it may not be real. Read The Illiad in its dactylic hexameter glory. Also, this snippet of a review I found on Mitchell's translation is what I suspected: "if you are looking for poetic beauty, Fagles' translation is still the book to read." Also, the work Mitchell uses by West is the most suspect of all "translations."
Late to the party here but I am, in general, very fond of Mitchell’s translations. Have not read his version of The Iliad, but his translations of Rilke in particular are, for me, magical.
Just re-skimmed the book "The Goodness Paradox" by Richard Wrangham, so I know everything about it. He tells a good story, with minimal evidence - homo sapiens and predecessor species engaged in a long period of eugenics to eliminate the most aggressive traits from the homo sapien gene pool. I would summarize the story like this:
Once upon a time our ancestors were a lot like chimpanzees. With our modern breeding and acculturation, you could put 600 people into a lecture hall and they would peacefully listen to the lecture (or daydream) and then peacefully leave together. However, if you placed 600 chimpanzees into the same lecture hall, it would rapidly fall into chaos as the chimpanzees reacted aggressively to the other chimps in the room.
He argues that with the invention of speech, "beta" males could communicate with each other and murder reactively aggressive "alpha" males. This happened often enough that many of these genes were eliminated from the gene pool.
Larry Niven hit on a variation of this concept decades earlier in his Ringworld Books. There the protagonist discovers that a separate alien race called the Puppeteers manipulated an aggressive alien race of cat-men called the Kzinti to discover Human Space. During the subsequent decades long war humanity "tamed" the Kzinti by killing the most aggressive members.
the book "Christianity and Classical Culture: Thought and Action from Agustus to Augustine" by robert norris cochraine is stellar. The sort of hyprid scholarship no one could do anymore, as hes a first rate historian, philosopher, classicist and, what really suprises, a better theologian than basically 99.9% of theologians I have ever read, Even as a non believer, Cochraine culminates this book with a explication of the Trinity as not only the apotheosis of the greek and latin philosophical projects, but of that civilization itself and its socio-political development. It is a thrilling read.
Recently watched the anime movie children of the sea because I saw the footage used in some nice ambient music videos(with my recently acquired vr glasses cuz pretty(at the moment watching Lawrence of Arabia)).
This movie is about a young girl that gets interested in the aquarium her father works looking for something to do for the summer hollidays(she planned to play sportsbal but got kicked of the team when she gave a bitchy player an elbow and broke her nose). In this aquarium she meets a boy that swims in the aquarium water and pretty much woos her by swiming with the fishes. Turns out this boy is one of the brothers that the aquarium keeps for research as they were raised by manatees and need to keep their skin wet otherwise it will burn, apparently they have a shorter lifespan for some reason. These brothers than take the girl on a quest on the sea and saying more feels to spoilery...
This movie was very shizo, government conspiracies, mystical forces and it even felt lovecraftian if lovecraftian shit got spinned to not be scary. Made me think of how much and if one should follow prohetic vision to complete godly quests, or if you would fall into the trap of lantern fish gods that lure you in. Also need to find me some transcendental technique to woo girls into thinking getting with me is a quest from god/gaia. Not sure if I am satisfied at the end, but the journey was very pretty very cool. Not too much environmentalist hippyism but they could have gone that way if they were more coherent, feels like a lot got cut out. 7/10 pretty shizo anime
The Red/Blue Gov debate by Hannity was garbage. Almost all debates are now. It’s time for moderators to have a mute button that turns off one’s mic when they try to talk over the speaker. Maybe with a static feedback on their earpiece. Or make the candidates wear shock collars.
I was never "normal" I saw the earth day protests in 1970 as a bullshit excuse to skip school, and impress the babes. I thought the earth is not a risk, the only thing humans can wipe out is them selves. Live on earth has survived billions of years and many catastrophic events.
I went to school, worked, raised a family. I knew that the leftist bullcrap was bullcrap, but was polite.
The global warming craze was what really fired up my bullshit meter. The correlation between sunspots and global temps has been known a long time, I became aware of it in the early 1990’s. With Svensmark’s cosmic rays hypotheses, a mechanism connected solar activity to cloud formation and cooling. CO2 dindu nuffin. And yet the AGW lies permeated the matrix. It took me years, but enlightenment has to reverse years of propaganda. Getting laid off in 2010 gave me more time to research. Truth one little piece at a time. I am not there yet, but I am not a catatonic NPC anymore.
In the elementary school I attended as a little boy of seven or eight the subject of France was presented to us and mention was made of a few of their notables. Joan of Arc and a little of her story was given to us.
I thought it interesting that my family name was very similar to hers and perhaps for that reason imagined that she was a distant relative. I read the little things that were available about her in our school library.
It must have been a Saturday afternoon during this period of childhood that I saw TV documentary about her. During the broadcast, a man, another student of her life, made this statement: "contemporaneous reports by several people very close to her state that: she would cup her ears with her hands in order to catch and tune the sound of the ringing church bells while she prayed."
The days came and went and I grew from boy to man and moved on with the business of living.
A time came for me to go on unpaid Sabbatical in order to adjust my frame of mind for bigger and better things. During this time I read some more and listened to sounds, sermons, and music in an attempt to communicate with "higher love".
The prognosticator of one of the sermons I dove into stated that he thought it would be possible to recreate the personal experience Joan of Arc had in the context of prayer and bell tones. And I read some more.
When the next chasm needed to be surmounted, I went back to the well and read more on Joan of Arc.
Being educated in America, and though I had read five or seven well respected books about her, including, *Joan of Arc in her own Words*, it was purely by accident that I came upon Mark Twain's favorite and self selected best work: *Joan of Arc, A Personal Recollection*.
The other day on Twitter I saw a young woman talk about the current disaster and how her brave four year old son gave his life defending her.
I have had Mark Twain’s book for seventeen years. I have read most of it. Just two chapters remain. It is time I man up and read them too.
Creating a workout app that also includes weight, measurements & diet
Review: Brandon Sanderson' The Sunlight Man - This is fiction Marvel Universe style, the man has like 20 novels/novella set in one universe with different worlds and magic systems which he's slowly bringing together. Not revolutionary but gads of fun written for anyone who's read his 20 prior novels
Insane thoughts
We all discuss the classic left vs right pendulum but what if the pendulum is nihilistic apathetic masses vs people who people who want vibrant change
Dating
Single 43 M - I promise If civilization falls to anarchy I would be a barbarous violent sociopath but would keep you safe
I just today watched "Rabbit Hole". I give it 5 stars.
I think Israel intentionally intentionally allowed Hamas in, knowing it was the only way they could go to war with Islam. They are damned for eternity, and I guess I am also as I agree with what they did.
"A Canticle For Liebowitz" is the best book I've read.
Currently reading One Million Dead by Gironella, set during the Spanish Civil War.
I live on a Southwest mountain and feed birds, and am addicted to sunshine.
I have lived in southern Africa, specifically Botswana, and only followed you because your avatar’s Rhodesian T-shirt fascinated and terrified at the same time. I still think it is photoshopped
This past year I’ve discovered Bondarchuk’s War & Peace, directed in Soviet times. Free on YouTube. It has layers of glory and the decadence of doomed godless systems. Even the weird colors of Russian film stock contribute.
I don’t want to date anybody, I just obey orders, some from the wife. I truly hate socialism in all its forms but admit I benefit. Venceremos.
I was nine when I published the first article I wrote for my school magazine. My writing hasn't developed as I'd hoped it would since. Life intervenes. My mother burnt what I first wrote, as a grown man, at the bottom of her garden, so can't say I've had much encouragement. When I was nine, at boarding school in Norton, Rhodesia, I remember the mortar attack drills in the dead of night, requiring us to take cover under our beds, with the mattress wrapped around me to catch shrapnel. We never knew it was a drill till afterward. I'm surprised I had the presence to publish anything, really. Our school masters patrolled school fences upon dirt bikes, with Uzis, and because of their sacrifices, I still found time to read and write. I honour their memory, and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, with my writing.
Book series recommendation: Jack Whyte’s Camulod Chronicles
It is Galt’s Gulch during the Late Roman Empire, with lots of fascinating battle tactics, iron work, and the quest to achieve safety and sovereignty as Rome withdraws from Britain and leaves the remaining colonists and colonised to fend for themselves. Very Ayn Rand.
I reviewed an article published in the The New Yorker "What's the Matter With Men?" I have little good to say about it and the elite class from which it dropped; they have forgotten human nature, human civilization and human history in their arrogant mission to create a new world. It won't end well. https://falsechoices.substack.com/p/men-and-women
This is a very different look at the economy, aimed at the general reader who need not ever have taken an economics course. It is an easy read, with almost no math, statistics, formulas, or models. It is entertaining and frequently funny.
At the same time, it is very original. It shows why the universally accepted scorecard of how the economy is doing, GDP, is not something we should even care much about. Instead, we should focus on living standards, i.e., people’s ability to get what they want, whatever that may be.
When you look at the economy through the lens of living standards, you see that many commonly held beliefs are wrong. You’ll see that capitalism, which is supposed to be good for the rich but not the poor, has built-in mechanisms that help the poor much more than the rich.
You’ll also see why those being taxed are not really the ones ultimately paying taxes. You’ll see why the cost of government, no matter who or what it taxes, is ultimately paid for in the form of lower living standards for the poor, not the rich.
This different way of understanding cause and effect in the economy provides a new perspective on inequality, how to deal with climate change, and many other controversial topics.
The link above is for Amazon, but it is available at many other outlets, and there is an excellent audiobook that so far is available everywhere except Amazon.
I’ve got a random ask for the community. Does anyone know where the e-right meme “the line must go up” comes from, or at least some articles that mention it? I am writing an article that references the meme, but I cannot remember any posts to link to.
On 4chan, the earliest use I could find is in a single 2014 thread on /a/ discussing the anime Aldnoah.Zero, 2 additional uses on /int/ from a British flag in 2018 (the year Enlightenment Now came out) before becoming popular on several big boards in early 2020.
I think it mostly started out as a jab at Steven Pinker and his book "Enlightenment Now", which contains a ton of examples about how various material conditions are better now than they ever have been (in aggregate) (and presumably this justifies liberalism).
Three Kingdoms: Series based off the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms." As the Han empire wains, the ambitious rise. Can the Han be restored to their former glory, or will the young upstarts from outside the Liu family rise to the occasion?
Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France: The author chronicles the rise of Mesmerism, otherwise known as animal magnetism, in pre-revolutionary France. We often think of the French Revolution as the rise of the rational, scientific approach to the world, however, a quasi-scientific theory was very popular with notable figures in the revolutions such as Barras and Lafayette. Many of the actual scientist, like Lavoisier, were conservative nobles, not rabble rousing failed sons of the middle classes. Definitely a different perspective worth revisiting in this time and age.
Is this the dating section? Since my wife is 15 years older than me, eventually I'll be needing a good female replacement who is considerably younger than me. She'll have a lot to live up to.
This is hopefully many years from now, but, since Kulak insisted, I'm here to prepare early. So: which of you mothers would like to volunteer your daughters for an arranged marriage?
Final note. If you think this is creepy, you are both brainwashed and lacking a sense of humor.
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Thank you, Kulak - we're all in the Gulch.
I am a science fiction/fantasy writer. My books (ebook/paperback/audio) are up on Amazon here:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Karl-K-Gallagher/author/B0195ZEOO8
Check out: an undercover spy piloting a spaceship with slide rules because the gov't is too afraid of rogue artificial intelligences to allow her to use an unsupervised computer. Historical reenactors pulled into a fantasy world with monsters that consider them prey . . . or worse. An isolated colony world finds an interstellar empire which maintains control by erasing all books over a lifetime old, and must fight to preserve its freedom and history.
My sculpture has been described as simultaneously futuristic and medieval. I liked that. Originally from Minnesota, I got out just in time and now find myself in the Raleigh area. Check me out online at www.sculptorsam.com or hit me up in person if you're in the area.
To second the commenter below, finding your blog is like when I pulled A Canticle for Leibowitz off the used bookstore shelf years ago. Thanks.
I run a retail shipping business in the Atlanta area. I am interested in warehousing and fulfillment - if any of you are making or selling anything , I would like to be your shipping department. Email me at tobias.magan@yahoo.com.
I host a podcast on the intersection between literature and leadership. It's full of solutions to complicated problems, which is the dragon we're all chasing. And my co-host makes me sound smarter. Check it out on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2UHJkIEj6GXQ9kFTGxUjGc and
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/leadership-lessons-from-the-great-books/id1591069385
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I went ahead and started a Substack called Eclectic Journeys. It will feature some short stories. Discussions about legal events (I'm a lawyer, sorry), music reviews and probably some arguments regarding Mormon theology. I have one entry up. I am not looking to monetize at this time. You might enjoy the fist vignette I posted about dealing navigating an insurance claim as a consumer. (I promise its more interesting than it sounds).
My blog long predates Substack and was originally intended just to be a vehicle for quotations I found interesting or amusing - https://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/
Just finished posting a multipart story on Substack about a monk living on Mars. I hope to post creative works regularly and already have an advent one lined up.
My substack posts free short stories taking ideas to their ultimate conclusion. What happens if the Supreme Court is packed to the limit? How would an effective dating app work? If you're caught between a popping real estate bubble and a social media flash mob, could you survive?
My substack is just short quizzes that require finding patterns in trivial knowledge, with meta-answers like “words derived from Hindi” or “names of the five Lisbon sisters”.
I don't like writing, I like having written. ~dorothy parker? michaelmclaughlin.substack.com
I write small rants about internet culture/shifts, consequences of internet culture in the real world, a bit about politics. Read if interested
If you love cranky Catholic takes on world affairs, you should check out http://notesfromtheendofti.me . It's like Church Militant with less homosexual affairs.
It's not my blog, but it is a blog you all should read if you want based reviews of movies and TV shows. And the comment threads are hilarious. Run by four guys in the UK. https://lastmovieoutpost.com/
substack about theological ideas and sermons from a trad cath pov: https://sanctistulti.substack.com/
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Looking for a dutchie or speaker good at selling loicences(safety n risk shit) to companies, have a company that needs to grow and we are too autistic to call up people to say they need to get a loicence from us quick, cheap n easy.
Anybody need a helicopter pilot in the next couple years?
What kind of helicopter?
Currently checked out in Bell 212 and AW139, but I've also flown Bell 205/210, Huey II's, and Bell 206s
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I swear to god, there are female Anarchonomicon readers. I see their Emails on my list... Some even Identify as Femcels!
Post and they will come.
Also, If you have female relatives or friendship circles in any area mentioned you should try to play matchmaker (This is a readership with a (very) impressive lifetime earnings projections)
I have several female relatives scattered about I'm scouting for.
By mandate of Kulak:
I'm a man, 19, single, Orthodox Christian, in my first year of electrical engineering in Munich. I'm half German, half Spanish/Italian. I grew up in Chile though. I like to read, hike, camp, I did kickboxing for a while and plan to continue sometime soon.
I am 178 cm tall, lean, relatively well muscled and have been told I'm somewhat good looking(by my mother, of course).
Contrary to what one would expect from someone that frequents these kinds of places I'm socially well adjusted, reasonably.
I want to eventually Kaczynski off to the country, have animals and build a bunker(promise I made to my 12 year old self).
I'm dating a girl who only eats pizza and tendies. She is also very considerate and very generous. I have no real complaints.
I have almost never encountered a girl Bland-Pallet Autist. My friend circle has like a half dozen guys who are like this though.
She sounds lovely. Rare personality combo.
Since our host has mandated this . . . married WM nerd, 56, seeks fellow nerd age/plumbing irrelevant for wargaming in central MN.
Grew up and spent most of my life in the St. Cloud area. I still make it back a couple times a year. The only thing I really miss is Menards.
Nice. I moved to SC recently. Drop me a line if you're in town and have time for a game.
64, male living in 20 acres of oaks in Northern Virginia. Lost my wife about 1.5 years ago. Was a Math major in college. Make a living programming computers for scientists from home.
6 feet, could stand to lose about 10 pounds, but healthy. Mostly bald. Full beard going gray. Lift weights and walk.
Served in Christian missions for ~20 years, some of that overseas. About once a month fill in preaching, working to keep my country church faithful to scripture and tradition, against the flow of our denomination and culture. People say they like to hear me speak and sing.
Mind and character were heavily shaped by CS Lewis, Tolkien and Solzhenitsyn. I have read the LOTR around 15 times, including 3x out loud.
Pets: 3 cats and a dog. Outside: 9 chickens, and 3 hives of honeybees. Self sufficient in eggs and honey. My mediocre gardening skills keep me from extending that to much else.
It would be nice to have someone to read to again. (The cats get bored and wander off.)
Hilarious, this is all dudes. My friends will give me shit if they find me here. Anyway:
Single straight white man in mid Atlantic United States (can easily reach DC). Early 20s. Catholic. Studied computer science, work tech job.
Enjoy lifting and playing the guitar/piano. Would like to learn to ride a motorcycle and grapple.
Physically:
Tall (6’3”), fit, blond hair, blue eyes. I like women that look like me, but not a deal breaker.
That’s all I’ll share for now, to avoid doxing myself.
I'm afraid if I date anyone my wife will stop my breathing. Although I do appreciate a good Christmas market babe.
Fine if you request mah waifu.
Dutchman 27, male straight n single n looking to mingle.
As for looks, bit overweight not grosly, would say a bit below the average male height here don't know the specifics, caucasian, brown hair n eyes.
Just graduatiated from some bullshit rich school degree and now looking for fulltime jerb that keeps my autistic ass entertained. Working on trying to get my local libertarian party more based as well.
As for hobbys I would say roleplaying and board games, reading substacks, geting on antifa hitlists for shitposting.
My first idea for a date would probably be a nice bistro in the woods (maybe prepare a bionerd spiel to woo, I know my grandaddy had a lot of shit from his woods walking days) or perhaps a trip to the zoo, they are doing cool night safaris at the moment.
I really enjoy @FromKulak posts. My first was The Problem with Prepping and I was hooked. Alas too much of a prototype or whatever for the dating game.
36 and lookin to mix. Anybody tempted to move to Russia with me in a few years and stay warm together?
In addition to age, You should list you Gender, orientation, and general region of where-ever you are...
...oh yeah. Dude here, looking for a lady in the SF Bay Area
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This Christmas I plan to watch the Entirety of Sergei Bondarchuk's "War & Peace" the first Soviet Film to Win an Academy Award.
I always associate Russians and War and Peace especially with Christmas, largely just off th old Europe Aesthetic and the Snow.
The Entire 4 part film series is up on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIij-KQ0jYU
And Bondarchuk's Incredible English Language epic WATERLOO is also on Youtube... The Largest, arguably best, film ever made is up for free because they screwed up the distribution so badly.
Its region locked in certain countries... but My god. That is a film unlike any other 15,000 extras and bleeding history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F5zEHVl3tE
If you watch one film I ever recommend. Make it Waterloo.
I ploughed through the Bondarchuk War and Peace film this last weekend when I was under the weather. It’s an entrancing piece of some of the best production design, attention to detail, shot composition, and score put to screen. It’s moving, a must watch, and certainly puts the recent Ridley Scott film to shame.
Even having just watched it, I’d happily curl up and watch it again, maybe get some kvas for refreshments.
If you like Bondarchuk, you might also enjoy Abel Gance's 1927 masterful depiction of Napoleon's early life. A 5½ hour cut is available here: https://archive.org/details/napoleon-1927-1080p
but you might want to wait for the 7 hour cut which will release "soon" (was scheduled for 2021 then 2023 ...)
In fact, by the axiom of "old good new bad" it MUST be better than Bondarchuk (who was a dirty commie anyway)
I watched Waterloo after either you or someone else recommended it at the end of a review savaging the Ridley Scott Napoleon film. Very glad I did. Wellington is the role Christopher Plummer was born to play. Would have liked more of a sense of where everything was and how specific actions contributed to the battle itself (e.g. a BECAUSE after "If we lose the farmhouse we lose the battle"), but that's fairly small beer and there's nothing stopping me from finding all that out on Wikipedia. Will check out war & peace, cheers for the link.
I suppose that counts as my review but the one I was going to write was for a much more disappointing series, also about Russia - The Great. A lighthearted comedy roughly based around Catherine the Great arriving in St. Petersburg, deposing Peter III, becoming Tsar and trying to modernise/Enlighten a vast, backward country from within a court filled with aristocrats equal parts insane, useless and thoroughly debauched SHOULD have been brilliant. Unfortunately the costumes and sets are the best part of it. It would take too long to list all the things I ended up rolling my eyes at; suffice to say Peter stole the show so much they had to keep him around until almost the very end (even after the coup), the politics (and gender politics) is so leadenly Current Year American AWFL that the writers did everything short of putting a red baseball cap on Pugachev, and it ends with Catherine, having for no dramatically satisfying reason survived yet another attempt to overthrow her, cutting her hair short and doing a strange dance routine in her audience chamber to AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long. The only thing missing was a bottle of SSRIs on the table.
It's such a shame (and I ended up hatewatching later series and cared enough to write this review) because of the missed opportunity. Allowing for Russian history being unfamiliar to audiences and occasionally lazy writers alike, the first series was pretty OK. It could have done a Blackadder/Carry On and transplanted essentially the same cast to other periods - Antony & Cleopatra, Ferdinand & Isabella of Spain, the Empress Matilda and either of her husbands all suggest themselves. Could have been a funny and intelligent comedy that gets remembered in decades' time. Ah well.
Say, that's the guy from 17 Moments of Spring. I hope Julie Christie is in this, especially wrapped in sable.
Hedrik Smith's "The New Russians" is an excellent trip through the Gorbachev era of the Soviet Union and delves deeply into the attitudes, habits, hopes and dreams of the people under their governmental system's aspirations and failures. It shows an evolving state, external forces influencing culture which then pushes political windows of acceptance - the journalistic and creative minds involved in new analysis of their state, stories of individuals interactions with a system far larger than themselves, a fractured military, a failed coup - it's all composed by a man who was there and is as impartial and factual account of an ultimate people's victory I've seen yet.
I almost never finish reading books. After more than a year, I read all of The Dictator’s Handbook, which you might enjoy if you’re slightly spectrumy and need math to understand humans. Or if you’re an economist, because every chapter is a dismal explanation of why being a jerk is such a successful strategy.
The Warning is the greatest band in the world right now. This is the shortest music review I've ever written by a factor of about 20.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ8PvtufzyE&t=129s
I'm currently half way through Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy, and it's bringing a lot of things together for me. Mr. Alamariu makes me realize how badly I was miseducated.
An excerpt:
"_Arête_, virtue, excellence, is what undergirds an aristocracy's claim to rule, and excellence is defined first most concretely as prowess in battle and ability to give good counsel, or to put it in Greek traditional language, _andreia_ (manliness, bravery) and _phronesis_ (prudence, practical wisdom)."
On the urging of the author's wife, I read Devon Eriksen's new novel Theft of Fire. It's a good example of "misfit crew on ramshackle ship" space adventures, which is one of my favorite subgenres. My favorite character was a prototype Robin Hanson-style em, which made for an interesting artificial intelligence on the crew. As a professional rocket scientist, I found no holes in the tech big enough to throw me out of the story--all the impossible stuff was clearly labeled as new inventions. I'm looking forward to book two of the trilogy.
Hot outfit, by the way.
I am moments away from finishing John Braine's A View From Tower Hill. Braine has an enviable gift for making the quotidian struggles of ordinary people seem urgent and fascinating. I have not worked out how he does it. He is best known for Room at the Top, made into a movie featuring the brilliant, beautiful Simone Signoret; I recommend both the book and the film without reservation, but know that they are both mercilessly sad.
I just finished the Stephen Mitchell translation of The Iliad, and I thought it was excellent. I hauled a paperback copy of the Richmond Lattimore translation around for years when I was younger and it never grabbed me, but I enjoyed the Mitchell.
Now reading Austen's Persuasion, and I recommend that one too. I like George Eliot a little better than Austen, but the latter is growing on me.
For anyone likes country blues and Americana, check out Cristina Vane. The most recent release is Make Myself Me Again, and it's representative. For trad country, I recommend Colter Wall. My older son turned me on to him.
Not familiar with that one. The gold standard for Iliad and Odyssey is Robert Fagles. Seriously, Lattimore is not at all good. Try Fagles. It is written in poetry form that approximates the original versus the prose style of many translators. Re in all its garding Mitchell, anyone who "translates" such a wide range of works in from many different languages is doing more "interpretation" than translation. It might be good, but it may not be real. Read The Illiad in its dactylic hexameter glory. Also, this snippet of a review I found on Mitchell's translation is what I suspected: "if you are looking for poetic beauty, Fagles' translation is still the book to read." Also, the work Mitchell uses by West is the most suspect of all "translations."
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Late to the party here but I am, in general, very fond of Mitchell’s translations. Have not read his version of The Iliad, but his translations of Rilke in particular are, for me, magical.
Just re-skimmed the book "The Goodness Paradox" by Richard Wrangham, so I know everything about it. He tells a good story, with minimal evidence - homo sapiens and predecessor species engaged in a long period of eugenics to eliminate the most aggressive traits from the homo sapien gene pool. I would summarize the story like this:
Once upon a time our ancestors were a lot like chimpanzees. With our modern breeding and acculturation, you could put 600 people into a lecture hall and they would peacefully listen to the lecture (or daydream) and then peacefully leave together. However, if you placed 600 chimpanzees into the same lecture hall, it would rapidly fall into chaos as the chimpanzees reacted aggressively to the other chimps in the room.
He argues that with the invention of speech, "beta" males could communicate with each other and murder reactively aggressive "alpha" males. This happened often enough that many of these genes were eliminated from the gene pool.
Larry Niven hit on a variation of this concept decades earlier in his Ringworld Books. There the protagonist discovers that a separate alien race called the Puppeteers manipulated an aggressive alien race of cat-men called the Kzinti to discover Human Space. During the subsequent decades long war humanity "tamed" the Kzinti by killing the most aggressive members.
the book "Christianity and Classical Culture: Thought and Action from Agustus to Augustine" by robert norris cochraine is stellar. The sort of hyprid scholarship no one could do anymore, as hes a first rate historian, philosopher, classicist and, what really suprises, a better theologian than basically 99.9% of theologians I have ever read, Even as a non believer, Cochraine culminates this book with a explication of the Trinity as not only the apotheosis of the greek and latin philosophical projects, but of that civilization itself and its socio-political development. It is a thrilling read.
Recently watched the anime movie children of the sea because I saw the footage used in some nice ambient music videos(with my recently acquired vr glasses cuz pretty(at the moment watching Lawrence of Arabia)).
This movie is about a young girl that gets interested in the aquarium her father works looking for something to do for the summer hollidays(she planned to play sportsbal but got kicked of the team when she gave a bitchy player an elbow and broke her nose). In this aquarium she meets a boy that swims in the aquarium water and pretty much woos her by swiming with the fishes. Turns out this boy is one of the brothers that the aquarium keeps for research as they were raised by manatees and need to keep their skin wet otherwise it will burn, apparently they have a shorter lifespan for some reason. These brothers than take the girl on a quest on the sea and saying more feels to spoilery...
This movie was very shizo, government conspiracies, mystical forces and it even felt lovecraftian if lovecraftian shit got spinned to not be scary. Made me think of how much and if one should follow prohetic vision to complete godly quests, or if you would fall into the trap of lantern fish gods that lure you in. Also need to find me some transcendental technique to woo girls into thinking getting with me is a quest from god/gaia. Not sure if I am satisfied at the end, but the journey was very pretty very cool. Not too much environmentalist hippyism but they could have gone that way if they were more coherent, feels like a lot got cut out. 7/10 pretty shizo anime
The Red/Blue Gov debate by Hannity was garbage. Almost all debates are now. It’s time for moderators to have a mute button that turns off one’s mic when they try to talk over the speaker. Maybe with a static feedback on their earpiece. Or make the candidates wear shock collars.
I was never "normal" I saw the earth day protests in 1970 as a bullshit excuse to skip school, and impress the babes. I thought the earth is not a risk, the only thing humans can wipe out is them selves. Live on earth has survived billions of years and many catastrophic events.
I went to school, worked, raised a family. I knew that the leftist bullcrap was bullcrap, but was polite.
The global warming craze was what really fired up my bullshit meter. The correlation between sunspots and global temps has been known a long time, I became aware of it in the early 1990’s. With Svensmark’s cosmic rays hypotheses, a mechanism connected solar activity to cloud formation and cooling. CO2 dindu nuffin. And yet the AGW lies permeated the matrix. It took me years, but enlightenment has to reverse years of propaganda. Getting laid off in 2010 gave me more time to research. Truth one little piece at a time. I am not there yet, but I am not a catatonic NPC anymore.
In the elementary school I attended as a little boy of seven or eight the subject of France was presented to us and mention was made of a few of their notables. Joan of Arc and a little of her story was given to us.
I thought it interesting that my family name was very similar to hers and perhaps for that reason imagined that she was a distant relative. I read the little things that were available about her in our school library.
It must have been a Saturday afternoon during this period of childhood that I saw TV documentary about her. During the broadcast, a man, another student of her life, made this statement: "contemporaneous reports by several people very close to her state that: she would cup her ears with her hands in order to catch and tune the sound of the ringing church bells while she prayed."
The days came and went and I grew from boy to man and moved on with the business of living.
A time came for me to go on unpaid Sabbatical in order to adjust my frame of mind for bigger and better things. During this time I read some more and listened to sounds, sermons, and music in an attempt to communicate with "higher love".
The prognosticator of one of the sermons I dove into stated that he thought it would be possible to recreate the personal experience Joan of Arc had in the context of prayer and bell tones. And I read some more.
When the next chasm needed to be surmounted, I went back to the well and read more on Joan of Arc.
Being educated in America, and though I had read five or seven well respected books about her, including, *Joan of Arc in her own Words*, it was purely by accident that I came upon Mark Twain's favorite and self selected best work: *Joan of Arc, A Personal Recollection*.
The other day on Twitter I saw a young woman talk about the current disaster and how her brave four year old son gave his life defending her.
I have had Mark Twain’s book for seventeen years. I have read most of it. Just two chapters remain. It is time I man up and read them too.
Project:
Creating a workout app that also includes weight, measurements & diet
Review: Brandon Sanderson' The Sunlight Man - This is fiction Marvel Universe style, the man has like 20 novels/novella set in one universe with different worlds and magic systems which he's slowly bringing together. Not revolutionary but gads of fun written for anyone who's read his 20 prior novels
Insane thoughts
We all discuss the classic left vs right pendulum but what if the pendulum is nihilistic apathetic masses vs people who people who want vibrant change
Dating
Single 43 M - I promise If civilization falls to anarchy I would be a barbarous violent sociopath but would keep you safe
"Single 43 M - I promise If civilization falls to anarchy I would be a barbarous violent sociopath but would keep you safe"
<<swoon>>
Not quite sure what you started, but here goes:
I just today watched "Rabbit Hole". I give it 5 stars.
I think Israel intentionally intentionally allowed Hamas in, knowing it was the only way they could go to war with Islam. They are damned for eternity, and I guess I am also as I agree with what they did.
"A Canticle For Liebowitz" is the best book I've read.
Currently reading One Million Dead by Gironella, set during the Spanish Civil War.
I live on a Southwest mountain and feed birds, and am addicted to sunshine.
I have lived in southern Africa, specifically Botswana, and only followed you because your avatar’s Rhodesian T-shirt fascinated and terrified at the same time. I still think it is photoshopped
This past year I’ve discovered Bondarchuk’s War & Peace, directed in Soviet times. Free on YouTube. It has layers of glory and the decadence of doomed godless systems. Even the weird colors of Russian film stock contribute.
I don’t want to date anybody, I just obey orders, some from the wife. I truly hate socialism in all its forms but admit I benefit. Venceremos.
I was nine when I published the first article I wrote for my school magazine. My writing hasn't developed as I'd hoped it would since. Life intervenes. My mother burnt what I first wrote, as a grown man, at the bottom of her garden, so can't say I've had much encouragement. When I was nine, at boarding school in Norton, Rhodesia, I remember the mortar attack drills in the dead of night, requiring us to take cover under our beds, with the mattress wrapped around me to catch shrapnel. We never knew it was a drill till afterward. I'm surprised I had the presence to publish anything, really. Our school masters patrolled school fences upon dirt bikes, with Uzis, and because of their sacrifices, I still found time to read and write. I honour their memory, and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, with my writing.
Book series recommendation: Jack Whyte’s Camulod Chronicles
It is Galt’s Gulch during the Late Roman Empire, with lots of fascinating battle tactics, iron work, and the quest to achieve safety and sovereignty as Rome withdraws from Britain and leaves the remaining colonists and colonised to fend for themselves. Very Ayn Rand.
I reviewed an article published in the The New Yorker "What's the Matter With Men?" I have little good to say about it and the elite class from which it dropped; they have forgotten human nature, human civilization and human history in their arrogant mission to create a new world. It won't end well. https://falsechoices.substack.com/p/men-and-women
I was dumb enough to get the clot shot so I don't think I can even have kids. Also you can check out my substack for my Alex Jones NWO wars review
Sorry to hear that.
I can only offer the advice that if at first you don't succeed try try try again!
I'll check it out. Been interested if it was any good.
I very recently published <a href=”https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Reimagined-Nature-Progress-Standards/dp/B0CKWNMWCV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LPA5783VOYZJ&keywords=economics+reimagined&qid=1698412689&sprefix=economics+reimagined%2Caps%2C81&sr=8-1”>Economics Reimagined: Nature, Progress and Living Standards</a>
This is a very different look at the economy, aimed at the general reader who need not ever have taken an economics course. It is an easy read, with almost no math, statistics, formulas, or models. It is entertaining and frequently funny.
At the same time, it is very original. It shows why the universally accepted scorecard of how the economy is doing, GDP, is not something we should even care much about. Instead, we should focus on living standards, i.e., people’s ability to get what they want, whatever that may be.
When you look at the economy through the lens of living standards, you see that many commonly held beliefs are wrong. You’ll see that capitalism, which is supposed to be good for the rich but not the poor, has built-in mechanisms that help the poor much more than the rich.
You’ll also see why those being taxed are not really the ones ultimately paying taxes. You’ll see why the cost of government, no matter who or what it taxes, is ultimately paid for in the form of lower living standards for the poor, not the rich.
This different way of understanding cause and effect in the economy provides a new perspective on inequality, how to deal with climate change, and many other controversial topics.
The link above is for Amazon, but it is available at many other outlets, and there is an excellent audiobook that so far is available everywhere except Amazon.
I’ve got a random ask for the community. Does anyone know where the e-right meme “the line must go up” comes from, or at least some articles that mention it? I am writing an article that references the meme, but I cannot remember any posts to link to.
On 4chan, the earliest use I could find is in a single 2014 thread on /a/ discussing the anime Aldnoah.Zero, 2 additional uses on /int/ from a British flag in 2018 (the year Enlightenment Now came out) before becoming popular on several big boards in early 2020.
https://desuarchive.org/_/search/text/%22line%20must%20go%20up%22/page/25/
https://archive.4plebs.org/_/search/text/%22line%20must%20go%20up%22/page/15/
Can anyone find more uses from 2018 or earlier?
I think it mostly started out as a jab at Steven Pinker and his book "Enlightenment Now", which contains a ton of examples about how various material conditions are better now than they ever have been (in aggregate) (and presumably this justifies liberalism).
Well... At 66 - nearly 67 - I really have no value as a breeder. And I try not to argue. Joyous generic December holiday!!!
Dating-
Same GF for four years now.
Reading/Media Reviews
Three Kingdoms: Series based off the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms." As the Han empire wains, the ambitious rise. Can the Han be restored to their former glory, or will the young upstarts from outside the Liu family rise to the occasion?
Mesmerism and the end of the Enlightenment in France: The author chronicles the rise of Mesmerism, otherwise known as animal magnetism, in pre-revolutionary France. We often think of the French Revolution as the rise of the rational, scientific approach to the world, however, a quasi-scientific theory was very popular with notable figures in the revolutions such as Barras and Lafayette. Many of the actual scientist, like Lavoisier, were conservative nobles, not rabble rousing failed sons of the middle classes. Definitely a different perspective worth revisiting in this time and age.
Is this the dating section? Since my wife is 15 years older than me, eventually I'll be needing a good female replacement who is considerably younger than me. She'll have a lot to live up to.
This is hopefully many years from now, but, since Kulak insisted, I'm here to prepare early. So: which of you mothers would like to volunteer your daughters for an arranged marriage?
Final note. If you think this is creepy, you are both brainwashed and lacking a sense of humor.
Sorry about the messed up link to my book. Something else I have to learn.