Timothy Nye

@athenaeumbc Can’t say enough good things about Blood Meridian. What an allegory!

1. The Holy Bible 2. The Brothers Karamazov — Dostoevsky 3. Moby-Dick — Melville 4. The Iliad — Homer 5. The Odyssey — Homer 6. Crime and Punishment — Dostoevsky 7. Blood Meridian — McCarthy 8. The Metamorphosis — Kafka 9. The Trial — Kafka 10. Lolita — Nabokov 11. Don Quixote — Cervantes 12. The Lord of the Rings — Tolkien 13. Dialogues — Plato 14. Ulysses — Joyce 15. Notes from Underground — Dostoevsky 16. 1984 — Orwell 17. Anna Karenina — Tolstoy 18. Faust — Goethe 19. The Divine Comedy — Dante 20. The First Folio — Shakespeare 21. War and Peace — Tolstoy 22. In Search of Lost Time — Proust 23. Stoner — Williams, J 24. Ficciones — Borges 25. Gravity’s Rainbow — Pynchon 26. Heart of Darkness — Conrad 27. Infinite Jest — Wallace, DF 28. Paradise Lost — Milton 29. Dubliners — Joyce 30. Confessions — Augustine 31. The Idiot — Dostoevsky 32. The Stranger — Camus 33. The Hobbit — Tolkien 34. The Old Man and the Sea — Hemingway 35. 2666 — Bolaño 36. Pale Fire — Nabokov 37. Siddhartha — Hesse 38. The Epic of Gilgamesh 39. Brave New World — Huxley 40. The Count of Monte Cristo — Dumas 41. The Castle — Kafka 42. Tragedies — Aeschylus 43. Journey to the End of the Night — Céline 44. Slaughterhouse-Five — Vonnegut 45. Beowulf — Seamus Heaney 46. The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Tolstoy 47. The Catcher in the Rye — Salinger 48. Industrial Society and Its Future — Kaczynski 49. Tragedies — Sophocles 50. Demons — Dostoevsky 51. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea — Mishima 52. The Master and Margarita — Bulgakov 53. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — Joyce 54. The Sound and the Fury — Faulkner 55. Beyond Good and Evil — Nietzsche 56. Wuthering Heights — Brontë, E 57. Metamorphoses — Ovid 58. Thus Spake Zarathustra — Nietzsche 59. Fear and Trembling — Kierkegaard 60. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Dick, P.K. 61. Storm of Steel — Jünger 62. The World as Will and Representation — Schopenhauer 63. The Picture of Dorian Gray — Wilde 64. The Book of Disquiet — Pessoa 65. Nicomachean Ethics — Aristotle 66. The Sorrows of Young Werther — Goethe 67. No Longer Human — Dazai 68. Finnegans Wake — Joyce 69. Catch-22 — Heller 70. The Aeneid — Virgil 71. Confessions of a Mask — Mishima 72. Poems — Eliot, T.S. 73. East of Eden — Steinbeck 74. The Crying of Lot 49 — Pynchon 75. To the Lighthouse — Woolf 76. A Christmas Carol — Dickens 77. The Prince — Machiavelli 78. Frankenstein — Shelley, M 79. The Magic Mountain — Mann 80. A Confederacy of Dunces — Toole 81. The Canterbury Tales — Chaucer 82. The Name of the Rose — Eco 83. Hunger — Hamsun 84. Pride and Prejudice — Austen 85. Poems — Yeats 86. Animal Farm — Orwell 87. The City of God — Augustine 88. The Ring of the Nibelung — Wagner 89. Alice in Wonderland — Carroll 90. Dracula — Stoker 91. The Trilogy — Beckett 92. Waiting for Godot — Beckett 93. Dune — Herbert 94. Mason & Dixon — Pynchon 95. Cthulhu Mythos — Lovecraft 96. The Myth of Sisyphus — Camus 97. One Hundred Years of Solitude — Márquez 98. Genealogy of Morals — Nietzsche 99. The Sun Also Rises — Hemingway 100. A Clockwork Orange — Burgess

You left out the disagreeableness of leftest indoctrinated ‘educated’ women. At the same time women want men that earn more, or at least an equivalent amount; when white males have been discriminated against for decades in education and employment. Now whites, men and Christians are pariahs. Just wallets with legs when acknowledged at all.

Why men are opting out of marriage: "A Rutgers University study of single heterosexual men... turned up the top reasons they hadn't married. They can get sex and the companionship of cohabitation without marriage more easily than in times past, and they don't want to open themselves up to the risk of divorce and financial loss. It really isn't that complicated a decision. In fact, it's often not an actual decision at all. It just happens." --Terrell Clemmons

@charlesmurray Go get’em!

This is addressed to the people who post about IQ asserting as well-known facts that IQ tests are culturally biased, or don't measure anything but how to take IQ tests, or can be coached, or are affected by socioeconomic status. The list seems endless. I've got news for you. *You aren't the first person to think of those possibilities.* Whole careers of extremely talented, well-trained people have been spent testing them with rigorous methods and large, representative samples of people. And guess what? They've published their results. For decades. Their conclusions have been challenged and refined, replicated or discarded, based on mountains of evidence. A stable consensus has been reached on a bunch of them. Have you ever considered doing some homework?

@BtVernacular So true. I made the same point.

In my life, I've gotten to interact with very smart people (multiple PhD researchers in hard math disciplines) and very dumb people (folks who dropped out of special ed in school). I've worked alongside each successfully and had meaningful social interactions with each. One of my uncles had brain damage as a baby and had a tested 50 IQ and lived in a facility his entire life. If a 20 point span on a test that only measures one aspect of human intelligence means you can no longer communicate with someone, that's not a flex, that's a skill issue on your part.

@literaryeric It wasn’t a novel.

Every year plenty of novels are published that are better than the Odyssey. Homer deserves our respect for being a pioneer, but you don’t have to read it.

@Eman_8282 Gort, klatu varada nicktoe.

Who remembers this classic movie?

@dr_duchesne Thucydides and Xenophon provide evidence for the opposite conclusion rather than an isolated quote from Plutarch from one of his parallel biographies. They were contemporaneous with Sparta and Athens during their ascendancy. Plutarch not so much.

Plutarch observes that: "In Sparta, the citizens' way of life was fixed. In general, they had neither the will nor the ability to lead a private life. They were like a community of bees, clinging together around the leader and in an ecstasy of enthusiasm and selfless ambition belonging wholly to their country". Many whites today lament the individualistic, non-tribal path Europeans took, and wished they had taken the ethnocentric tribalism of nonwhites. They forget the price of being tribal: negligible cultural achievements. Tribal Sparta is not known for any cultural achievements. Athens, where individuals were free to express their own views as long as they were obedient to the laws they enacted themselves, was responsible for the "Greek Miracle".

@AuthorGFAllen Treating something inheriently variable as a constant is disqualifying. If you’re incapable of being alone that’s far more evidence of pathology.

Be honest… do people actually exist who love staying home all day, completely alone, not seeing a single person, the same way some people finish a whole book in one sitting?

@Heavenly_Race_ Nope. Tested at 165 by Stanford PhD Psychologist in early ‘60s at Berkeley. This isn’t even remotely true. @Heavenly_Race_ has this reversed. Those nodding it’s true are unaware and incapable of the necessary insight.

It’s funny. Half the comments are saying “Yes, this is 100% true.” The other half are proving the point in real time. The higher IQ ones don’t feel any need to prove their intelligence, they just nod and keep scrolling. The lower IQ ones don’t even realize they’re in the second group. They’re too busy confidently missing the point to notice the demonstration they’re providing. Classic case of the very gap described. The replies are basically a live experiment.

@DIAS They are the foundation of Western Civilization. What a sophomoric argument. Western Civilization didn’t yet exist, so the culture that formed its foundation didn’t come from it.

People keep calling the Odyssey and ancient Greece “Western heritage” as if they emerged from a western European or even European world. But the modern “West vs East” divide did not even exist yet. Ancient Greeks did not see themselves as “westerners.” They were one civilization among many in the interconnected eastern Mediterranean world alongside Egyptians, Phoenicians, Anatolians, Cypriots, Levantines and Mesopotamians. And the evidence for this is everywhere.

@FloraLuzz_ Nope. I’m here illegally. I just want to support continuing my benefits and bringing my extended family here.

Imagine showing up to vote and seeing ICE checking IDs at the door. Would you still vote?

@QuantumDom Byepolkraine

Name this hypothetical country.

@Austen @RonColeman You need to look at the deep blue states. And re-examine your definition of racism because a mirror is waiting for you.

Anyone who has traveled internationally knows that the most racist place in the world is not in the United States

@twisokhou @dmmsell Left eyebrow of seated person His mouth Windshield of train has one glare streak instead of two Both clouds.

間違い探し5つ。 難しすぎませんか？

@BBattista1 @EricLDaugh ‘More intransigent’ is an oxymoron when it comes to Thune.

@EricLDaugh This will piss off Thune and I expect it will make him even more intransigent. He is now overtly ignoring the will of the people and that will just get worse coming up.

🚨 NOW: MAGA is less than 24 HOURS from STORMING the Texas polls to elect Trump-endorsed Ken Paxton over Sen. John Cornyn "Paxton's not worried." 🔥 "I'm gonna be the nominee. We want to focus on taking down this DEMOCRAT who has the most radical views maybe I've ever seen!" LFG! 🇺🇸

@OwenGregorian Booker means the Democrat Party needs Booker. Riddle solved.

Booker says Democratic Party ‘desperately needs new leadership’ | Max Rego, The Hill Democratic Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) said Sunday that his party “desperately needs new leadership,” with the midterms less than six months away. “We need to focus on the people, and the Democratic Party desperately needs new leadership, and that’s what’s exciting me about this cycle. It’s not only new leaders emerging, but a new vision for our party,” Booker told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.” The New Jersey Democrat specifically highlighted incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), along with Roy Cooper and James Talarico — the Democratic nominees for Senate in North Carolina and Texas, respectively — as “leaders” who are “stepping up and saying, ‘I don’t give a damn about parties. I care about people.’” Booker added, “You cannot lead the people if they don’t trust you, and that’s what’s lacking right now with the party apparatus. But the people running out there that I’m running around this country trying to support, they’re building real trust with the American people, and that’s my hope.” Democratic lawmakers criticized the party’s national committee after it released an incomplete autopsy report analyzing former Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss to President Trump in the 2024 election. The 192-page report did not mention former President Biden deciding to run for reelection despite his advanced age and Harris ascending to the nomination without going through a primary. While Booker said that the Democratic National Committee “has got to do a lot better if they’re going to meet this moment in history,” the Americans that he speaks to are “less concerned about the party and far more concerned” about their own lives. “The American people have lost trust because of all politics as usual. People are suffering, people are hurting, and they’re going to support the leaders,” Booker added. As for whether Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is one of those “leaders” that he has faith in, the New Jersey lawmaker did not say. He did stress, though, that Schumer, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) and other elected Democrats must provide Americans with a different vision of the country than Trump. “You are not going to win this election just by what you’re against,” he noted. “You need to start articulating who you’re for and what you’re for. Have a vision that’s compelling that not only engenders trust, but makes sense for the American people.” thehill.com/homenews/senat…

@Heavenly_Race_ @CopperDaisyNC Not my experience.

Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems. A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means: Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad." Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language. Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed. Both walk away frustrated. Both have wasted each others time.

@World_Warrior @Rothmus So, two wrongs make a right? Whites have it coming to them? The obliteration of native culture is good when it’s white, western civilization? Ethnic cleansing is ‘complicated’.

It’s interesting how people condemn immigration today, while forgetting that many modern nations were built through conquest, settlement, and migration themselves. When Columbus and later European settlers arrived in the Americas, Native Americans didn’t exactly invite them in. Their land, culture, and identity were transformed forever. History becomes complicated when people only defend migration when it benefited their own ancestors.

This is a major reason why mass immigration generates such intense resentment. Many immigrants not only fail to identify with their new country and its native people, but they actively oppose them and everything the host culture represents. Here she is, the same person defines “ethnic cleansing” as the permanent resettlement of an entire ethnic group from their homeland, yet openly celebrates the demographic decline of the white British population, declaring “We are winning.” This isn’t treason. Treason implies betrayal from within a group. This is something else entirely: a demographic invasion by people who were never part of the historic British nation. An ethnic cleansing per her own definition. When native Britons say “send them all back,” it’s really hard not to sympathize.

@ScottPresler Termed out Senate Republicans threaten to do more nothing than ever before. And they mean it!! Bring on the next Congress and the replacements. This one’s out of Thune with the will of the party.

BREAKING Senator Ted Cruz revealed on his podcast that 4 Senators are P*SSED: ▪️Bill Cassidy ▪️Thom Tillis ▪️John Cornyn ▪️Rand Paul From President Trump’s endorsements to losing elections, each of these Senators — according to Cruz — is angry. With a 53-47 majority, we can’t afford to lose 4 votes & this will complicate how we move forward. Source: Verdict with Ted Cruz

@TheEagleyeNews @JoshuaLisec @MaverickDarby @Magisterial_One Might have the wrong one holding the rifle considering Lewis was the one who killed an Indian-one running away at that. Clark’s maps are pretty amazing-so I’d give him the telescope.

I think we need to build this. I designed this below image, representing Lewis and Clark on the Mississippi in the style of Argonath. At $1 Billion or more, I think it can be done.