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@novusolus Prestige was fire

Following & Memento are great films but he was quickly swept up into directing massive noisy blockbusters. One can imagine a more artistically distinguished career had he stuck to middling budgets and was able to tease out the promising ideas latent in his early work.

@unconquered_sol This is why it is important to make art.

“But what does it all mean when there is not one left to remember - the great cavalry charge at Gaugamela, or the mountains of the Hindu Kush when we crossed a 100,000-man army into India? He was a god, Cadmus. Or as close as anything I've ever seen.”

@realKalos @unconquered_sol Leonidas was right, too. There are some things that can be bought, and some things that can't; Alex unfortunately never learned the difference, and let himself go while abroad. RIP.

Alexander's childhood tutor, Leonidas, was so parsimonious that one day when Alexander took a whole handful of incense to throw on the altar fire, he rebuked the boy, saying that once he had conquered the spice markets of Asia he could waste good incense but not before. Years later, when Alexander had taken the entire Near East, he sent his aged tutor an enormous shipment of frankincense and myrrh with a note saying he could now stop being so miserly to the gods. Alexander Weighing Gifts for his Tutor Leonidas, by Jean III Pénicaud

@LordIxabert Always been a fan of the physiognomic comparisons between Scottish and Roman busts lol

Correct. We were Romans. One man says something about himself which turns out not to be true; another says something similar which happens to be true. This, alas, occurs. One needn't suppose that a false claim, once made, annuls all superficially similar claims elsewhere.

@Audmund @dukesdoctrine_ Someone needs to bring back Halo online

@dukesdoctrine_ It's still good

90% off. 400 players active daily. Sale ends 25 may.

@girltummyfan I sympathize with this. But at the same time, one has to wonder what exactly is going to happen with the US dollar in the next, say, 30 years. Roths are weird for this

All but $10k of my net worth is in HSA/Roth/529 accounts

@qualitylearnc Not really sure. She looks much older than she is, and the short hair is kind of weird. But then again, I guess you have to be different as a Nepo baby

She's so beautiful it hurts

@LordIxabert Let's take a look at the genetic receipts here

I am a hardline Mediterranean Supremacist, holding that the Mediterranean race founded every civilisation & culture in existence——except only Ancient Greece & Rome, which, to my great annoyance & deeply reluctant admission, were founded by Nordics.

@typesfast I believe there's also something called the treasure tax. Lol @grok

Spent 90 minutes looking for the buried treasure in SF with my daughter tonight. I soooo badly want to find it so I can teach her how income taxes work.

@thr0wingC0pper @DukeHerndon They are literally the truth

@DukeHerndon thank God for them

Racist blondes

@DukeHerndon Selective breeding

@caspianflowts @0xAlaric @Jbn3ex Can you link me some. I don't follow any I don't see any.

@0xAlaric @Jbn3ex Really dope because there are some great explorers on here but their videos don’t make a wave.

Oh word

@IberianMantis This is the classic nihilistic argument against thinking about the intelligible world. And yeah, you have to take breaks every once in a while. But what do you think the point is anyway then after this?

@DrRemilio The smile she makes when she leaves northern italy wonderful purity of Sicily

Not a fan of the blacks

@Hitler_In_4D Yeah and none of them live in LA. Sad!

I have random e-foids with followers in the hundreds who look like this

@thymele33x @virgilspath But you can explain further

@virgilspath lol can’t explain further but

Guy whose favourite book in the Bible is Numbers Girl whose favourite book in the Iliad is the Catalogue of Ships

@jmrphy This is a wild take lol

The Great Books trend of the past 5 years has been a total catastrophe. The simple fact is that Plutarch and Homer and Virgil et al. do have radical insights buried in there, but at the same time most of these books are truly boring and lame and most people pretend to like them, cannot really digest anything, and get absolutely nothing from them! The trend is overwhelmingly powered by these books' aspirational quality; it's like a luxury heritage brand that conveniently only costs $15 a pop. The people on social media who've made brands around how great all these books are, often they are trying to *express* something about *themselves*, which is nice, but does not change how lame and boring the lion's share of these books are! You don't have to pretend to love them! If you're teaching undergrads that's great, or doing real research, fine. But this in no way means that everyone should read these books; it does not even mean that the smartest and most educated adults today need to read these books. The bits of radical alpha in them are great to find, explore, and write about if you are in the .01% of people who are called to do such things, but there is really zero reason why anybody else should read any of these books. Frankly, many of these authors are even somewhat primitive and infantile compared to the best thinkers of modernity. Plato and Aristotle have tons of provocative alpha worth getting, but also they were retarded on many topics, especially religion. The Romans were even worse in many ways. But all of this gets shrouded in the cult of Great Books. There have never been more people professing to love the Great Books, and mass public culture has never been lower brow than it is today. A ton of larping and precious little education, virtually zero novel insight, has come out of this movement.

@qualitylearnc One always misses the light that was in their eyes

The best tits money can buy

@GC_Strategos "Man is the measure of all things"

The most alluring thing about the Greeks is how their ideal of culture always aimed at the cultivation of a higher type of man. With the Romans you get other things, but not that.

@zagrebbi I mean, he has a point. Just not a very good one

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