“Every old man becomes like King Lear…”
-Carl Schmitt
Actaeon Press@SchattigeDer
"So here I am Growing older all the time Looking older all the time Feeling younger in my mind"
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Theodor Däubler
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You don’t need to ask grok. It’s simple: he was smarter than all of them
Ricardo Rodriguez@Ricardo93336975
@CatholicSat @grok Why was Benedict protested against?
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Just when I thought Vermeule had only bastardized Tocqueville.
Phil Magness@PhilWMagness
As 9/11 faded, Vermeule then adapted Schmittian theory in other directions to justify a theory of executive dominance applied to other "emergencies." By 2011, he had used this line of reasoning to construct the foundations of what we now call Postliberalism.
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“If the psychoanalysts could only get the contemporary Hamlet on their
couch, if they could only straighten out his Oedipus complex, his specific
aboulia would vanish; he would stop shilly-shallying and push that nuclear
button like a real man.”
-Girard, Theatre of Envy
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Theodor Däubler retweetledi
"Even the world state will not do away with violence, since it belongs to creation. War transforms into police actions of smaller and larger scale. With a monopoly on nuclear weapons insurrections have no potential, yet terror will increase."
~ Ernst Jünger
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Does anyone remember a Jünger passage where he describes time as a river and the riverbed changing its course?
Naif Adnan Al Bidh | نايف عدنان البيض@Naifalbidh
“Each time the forces of history cause a new breach, the surge of new energies brings new lands and new seas into the visual field of human awareness, the spaces of historical existence undergo a corresponding change.
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Theodor Däubler retweetledi
"What should we expect of a man who has spent twenty years of his life making pinheads? And to what can he henceforth apply that powerful human intellect that has often stirred the world, other than the search for the best way of making pinheads?"
~ Tocqueville
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Theodor Däubler retweetledi
«En las construcciones de los juristas del Derecho romano de los siglos XIV y XV ya está completamente olvidada la unión entre el Imperio Cristiano y el Reino territorial, consagrada a la realización del Kat-echon. Bartolo [el jurista más influyente de todos los siglos] y los demás juristas y publicistas italianos del siglo XIV ya no poseen conocimiento alguno de que el Emperador tiene misión de Kat-echon».
—Carl Schmitt
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@alexfcmm01 @Athens_Stranger @CarriePrejean1 I’ve read the book but I’m not sure even you understand that book.
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@Nord_Daub @Athens_Stranger @CarriePrejean1 He has a book on Leviathan where he understands Hobbes’s state of nature as a secular fallen nature, making it a pessimist view of anthropology, which Hobbes himself rejects when he explains his philosophy. He understands Hobbes but can’t liberate himself from his entrapment.
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@Athens_Stranger @CarriePrejean1 Please explain why he fundamentally misunderstood Hobbes.
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@Nord_Daub @CarriePrejean1 The problem with Schmitt is that he fundamentally misunderstands Hobbes and remains stuck within the thinking of liberalism from which he seeks to extricate himself
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@CarriePrejean1 Completely false, and I could very easily and very happily provide an avalanche of citations where the founding fathers repeatedly and mercilessly trashed Roman Catholicism
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@ActaeonJournal @SchattigeDer Fukuyama, End of History and the Last Man pg. 328.
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The idea that the great man persists throughout the ages is one of the disasters of the democratic mind. The international businessman would not be a warrior or statesman in another era. Donald Trump is no Crassus, he would be a failed jester or highway robber.
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@PierreBalinski @Athens_Stranger Comparative religion, is what, it seems, he has in mind.
The study of religions as if they were all the same.
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@Athens_Stranger Why? And what do you exactly have in mind when you say religious studies?
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“Religious studies” is a fake major and shouldn’t exist, just like all the other dumb “__ studies” programs
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Netanyahu: "Jesus spoke Hebrew."
Pope Francis: "Uh, not really no."
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“Today the sons of these opulent citizens are men of commerce, attorneys, doctors. Most have fallen into the most profound obscurity. The least trace of ranks and hereditary distinctions is destroyed; estate law has done its leveling everywhere.”
-Tocqueville
Actaeon Press@SchattigeDer
Again, this misses the point. Nietzsche does not escape the modern condition. As Schmitt says, he resorts to marketing ploys, and Jünger that he is consumed by a totalising morality. The fact that we ascribe Nietzsche this status beyond democracy is, paradoxically, part of the
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Theodor Däubler retweetledi
Again, this misses the point. Nietzsche does not escape the modern condition. As Schmitt says, he resorts to marketing ploys, and Jünger that he is consumed by a totalising morality. The fact that we ascribe Nietzsche this status beyond democracy is, paradoxically, part of the
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“Sin is taken away only by the gift of faith that works through love.” -St. Augustine
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