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“To live is to fight.” — Latin proverb

“Eating is our closest interaction with the world.” — Pavlov “The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.” — Lin Yutang

You're telling me that the way we relate to art depends the viewer's belief about the artist's intention and historical context in which the piece was produced? You're telling me this for the first time.

@johnmilbank3 The amazing reach of Brexit: apparently it also broke American politics, destabilised France, radicalised Dutch farmers and made every incumbent government on Earth unpopular.

Why does no one say the blindingly obvious? It is Brexit that has driven our politics crazy. For the past ten years there has only been pointless churn at the top. Being outside the EU (for all its giant faults) simply leaves us confused.

@GaulishGroyper youtu.be/kIbg7oiXECE

"The Angry Birds movie is about mass immigration. The birds must have the fortitude to assert their own sovereignty against the pigs" "On the contrary, the pigs represent the imperial principle" "Ahh yes, just invert the surface-level reading. What a boar-ing interpretation"

@lewis_goodall Multiculturalism: the internalization of divisions and the importation of conflict.

The future is Birmingham

@JackBMontgomery Have you come across a chart showing cumulative migration inflows and outflows over time, rather than just annual net migration?

@Keir_Starmer "People are still frustrated. Their lives aren’t changing fast enough." — On the contrary, the problem is people's lives are changing fast, for the worse, thanks to you and the Tories.

These are tough results for Labour. There’s no sugarcoating it. We’ve lost brilliant Labour representatives who’ve stood up for their communities. People are still frustrated. Their lives aren’t changing fast enough. We haven’t offered enough hope or optimism for the future. I was elected to change this country - tough days like this don’t weaken my determination to do that. They strengthen it.

“He had so much time before him. All the good things of life seemed to await him. What need was there to exert oneself?” — Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe

@moveincircles He may even have been reading from a script / LLM script. Several times, he struggled to pronounce words in the way people often do when reading aloud from written text.

Watching the young man in the video below struggle and largely fail to form and articulate cogent arguments, it’s tempting to wonder if he’s a product of the Great Digital Education Experiment

Battle of Çesme at Night - Ivan Aivazovsky, 1848

Full book here: archive.org/details/take-i…

“From the muddy concupiscence of the flesh and the hot passions of puberty mists steamed up to becloud and darken my heart so that I could not distinguish the white light of love from the fog of lust.” — St. Augustine

@NancyRPearcey @AllegretPilot it is easy to misinterpret these figures high numbers of sexual partners are largely concentrated among a minority of BOTH men and women it means that there is a great deal of coupling going on within 20% of the population

@AllegretPilot This explains why, throughout history, many cultures have been polygamous. By contrast, the Biblical teaching of monogamy means "to each his own." Monogamy means the top 20 percent of men cannot get most of the women. Even ordinary men get a chance to have a wife and family.

📊 Les applis de rencontres ont créé un nouveau système d’appariement. Personne ne l’a voté. Personne ne l’a annoncé. Les hommes notent les femmes en courbe normale. Les femmes jugent 80% des hommes « en dessous de la moyenne ». Sur les applis, le taux de match moyen est de 31% pour les femmes. Pour les hommes : 2,6%. Soit 12 fois moins.  Résultat : les 20% d’hommes les plus désirables concentrent l’attention de la quasi-totalité des femmes. Les autres attendent. Les femmes, elles, retiennent une attention proportionnée. C’est de la polygamie de facto - sans le mariage, sans les enfants. Le grand retour des forces du marché que les religions ont combattues. Aux États-Unis, la part des hommes de moins de 30 ans n’ayant pas eu de rapport sexuel dans l’année a doublé entre 2010 et 2024 : de 12% à 24%.  En Corée du Sud, le taux de fécondité est à 0,72.  Au Japon, 40% des adultes célibataires de 18-34 ans n’ont jamais eu de rapport sexuel.  La technologie n’a pas libéré le marché amoureux. Elle l’a concentré et a fait sauter les barrières, comme tous les marchés numériques. Winner takes all. Même là. Et les premiers exclus sont des hommes. Même là. 

@archisoteric “The real value of any Christian community is not to be found in its own prosperity but in its care for the prosperity of other Christian communities.” — St. Nikolaj Velimirović ☦️

New article by me, open to all. morgothsreview.com/p/true-lies-an…

“I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.” — Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Because of our phones, we are forever elsewhere. — Sherry Turkle

@Cr7Godbrand “There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.” — Camille Paglia [Men are creatures of extremes, showing greater variation than women]

Camille paglia explains why there are no great female artists.