7 Aug 2026, 08:29 UTC79 views1 reactionsread 8 August 2026 In a Roman context, Europe is just a landmass. The world is divided into citizens and noncitizens; Roman citizens in Britain and Syria have far more in common with each other than they do with their Pictish or Arab relatives just across the border. A distinctive concept of Europe, a specifically European mode of social organisation, could only emerge out of the ruins of the Empire, once the Americans had torn it open…
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7 Aug 2026, 04:58 UTC88 viewsread 8 August 2026 https://youtu.be/yon5fqz6-v8
6 Aug 2026, 10:58 UTC104 viewsread 8 August 2026 https://youtu.be/lgnUzs6oA7A
6 Aug 2026, 08:27 UTC117 views5 reactionsread 8 August 2026 European society is literate and literary; America is fundamentally imagistic. A country of cave-painters. For the few Americans who can read, the written word is still magical in nature, a charm or amulet, a form of medicine, rather than an ordinary system for relaying meaning. (See, for instance, the basically savage invocation of Aristotle and Aquinas above.) For Europeans, freedom is imagined in social and sadist…
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5 Aug 2026, 13:35 UTC127 viewsread 8 August 2026 https://youtu.be/jPhvic-eqbc
5 Aug 2026, 06:18 UTC133 views4 reactionsread 8 August 2026 In its culture, institutions, and style of government, the US has no resemblance to France or Denmark, but it does look quite a lot like the Iroquois Confederation or the Aztec Triple Alliance. European countries are integral and territorial: each one is essentially a patch of farmland that could be conquered and defended by some warlord at some point between 476 and 1945, along with its population of bonded serfs. T…
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5 Aug 2026, 05:08 UTC102 views3 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Forwarded from @NonsenseFundingTwerpsPhoto
Sorry about the colour scheme I borrowed someone else's screenshot
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4 Aug 2026, 05:50 UTC147 views5 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Maybe a better way of describing what’s gone wrong here is that Christopher Nolan does not believe in the gods. They never really appear in the film: there’s Zendaya as an apparition that might be Athena, but she doesn’t really do anything and turns out to just be a manifestation of Matt Damon’s guilt anyway. A real god is something different, an image so intense it generates and obliterates a potentially infinite nu…
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3 Aug 2026, 20:00 UTC156 views2 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Ian Danskin video essay on themes of power and rules in Snowpiercer, High Rise and John Wick series
https://youtu.be/IlCPnaJyZL4
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3 Aug 2026, 14:24 UTC165 views3 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Once you’ve seen LA from above, it’s obvious why nobody cared about the 250th. According to the myth, America was founded as a nation of yeoman farmers, prudent Anglos with buckles on their hats, reading Horace and Livy in their three-room houses, self-sufficient in wheat, rye, flax, wax, and lumber, guarding their homesteads and their liberty, urbanisation rate around 3.5%, fewer wage-labourers than outright slaves,…
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3 Aug 2026, 13:24 UTC165 views6 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Video
Why Dune resonates so much today
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28 Jul 2026, 03:55 UTC282 views5 reactionsread 8 August 2026 Photo
from a friend's instagram
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