Could the times be any more wicked? Well, yes

It never left...

“Paused” majors at Syracuse include Classics, Modern Jewish Studies, and Religion, as well as French, German, Italian, Russian

Was charmed by a graceful tricolored heron early this morning, but now I'm watching a red-tailed hawk eviscerate a squirrel up in a tree a couple yards away...red in tooth and claw...

Does anybody remember laughter?

You gotta be eating more corn, beans, and squash

We must insist that we were born for leisure and act accordingly

What does it mean when the "dumbest" critics were right?

"I've always enjoyed having dinner and interacting." -Tim Cook

Call me the Duke of Aquitaine the way I'm the Duke of Aquitaine

Well-behaved sorcerers rarely make history

There's gonna be lots of people telling you there's nothing to attain. But none of them want you to realize there's nothing to attain

Thank you AI search assist

I don't want to hear about whether or not your ancestors were here before 76. I want to know how many of them were Ascended Masters and what they did to advance the Great Work

Fight without ceasing to defend, expand, deepen your humanity

There are therapeutic benefits to modern mindfulness techniques and the selective approach of secular/Western Buddhism but ultimately these can only serve as palliative and are incapable of doing more than treating the symptom or of confronting the traumatic kernel of existence

It's probably hopium but I'm really into the idea that Trump is nearing the end of his days. I definitely don't want Vance to be president, and although I think he's closer in personnel and aims to the Silicon Plot, I don't think he has the It Factor to accomplish what Trump has started

Mood board for this autumn: dark American pragmatism hauntological Beaux-Arts transcendental materialism spectral Unitarianism Wordsworthian pessimism melancholic Thomism (Browne, de Quincy, Carlyle)

Practice chariot driving and armed defense daily.

Fentanyl is my co-pilot

Control yourself. Take only what you need from it.

Freebird is a really great song.

This is really remarkable

mornin

Glad I'm not on the side that thinks it's okay to starve children as long as they have leukemia

The damage is the point. Trump's role to play here is to break American institutions to ensure the perpetual autocracy of SV billionaires and privatized Christian nationalist fiefdoms. He has a unique charisma to accomplish this, and the decades-long conservative conspiracy is using him to this end

WOTAN!

In a sane civilization, I'd be shipped off to an Australian penal colony for a crime I didn't commit

Of course SC was one of the first to jump at the opportunity to occupy DC

It's a clanker

Strange and under-discussed provision in Project 2025 calls for building a state apparatus to persecute Animal Collective fans

I do not support this but it does reveal something esoterically true; in some ways Radiohead is the thinking man's Phish

Trump admin often reads as if they're a flailing, cornered dog, but there's nothing to indicate that that's actually the case, and there's certainly nothing to indicate that there's any opposition able to seize on their weakness. Sandwich guy arrest propaganda video is a great example here:

Spending time reading Evola even in an "opposition research" kind of way feels like it does real damage to your spirit. UR Group probably were consorting with real demons. In my opinion

and we shall never hope in vain

Utter humiliation

Take it all the way. Let me check Norse-Gael. Let me put down Gallo-Roman. Bronze Age Battle Axe Culture

Dispersion leads in turn to accumulation. This is something that ordinary men do not think of.

Our flavor of fascism is so damn stupid. Doesn't make it any less cruel. But damn, it's stupid

Very few people ever had swagger like the Essenes

There's ultimately a surreal quality to the fact that a not insignificant portion of my education in grade school was about the dangers, signs, etc. of authoritarianism, and then finding myself watch it all unfold in our own lives. Almost like scripted television

some rare good news: a Georgia judge has dismissed the Cop City domestic terrorism charges against Jamie Mariscano in DeKalb County, noting that the "Attorney General's Office appears to have delayed this matter in order to gain a tactical advantage over the defense."

We're in a cold civil war