Wreckoning

Wreckoning

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  • SELECTIVE BREEDING and the Birth of PHILOSOPHY, by Costin Alamariu - Preface

    This is a thesis about Nietzsche. My obsession with Nietzsche started when I was sixteen years old. Inspired by Nietzsche, I went back to Homer and to Plato and read them through Nietzsche’s provocations. These provocations also inspired me to learn Greek. I would guess I thought through the ideas behind this thesis around the time I was twenty-two years old. The fundamental problem that motivated me then as it does now: what is life as opposed to death, and what is life as full of life, as opposed to life as diminished life.

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    While it would greatly amuse me to claim now that I learned all my naughty ideas from my advisors, and that there is a secret Straussian finishing school for people like me of unusual persuasion, I think even they don’t deserve this. I’ve learned everything I care about on my own and certainly not from any professors. It’s not arrogant of me to say this, but the truth.

    ...

    They enjoy the notoriety and the implication that they must be very powerful operators, or Machiavellian eminences-grises. This is much better than the thought that they are an ineffectual ladies’ reading group. They are so powerful that they’ve been almost completely eliminated from the few positions they once held at prominent universities. Other Straussians deny these claims but engage in a different outlandish self-flattery where they view themselves as preservers of classical philosophy and the light of freedom of thought, republican moderation, and so on...and other pieties of this kind. None of these things are true.

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    Critias, Socrates’ student, was the Hitler of the ancient Greek world. He and his friends established a regime based on atheistic biologism so to speak; on “Sparta radicalized,” a eugenic antinomian dictatorship. He was maybe what Hitler’s most hysterical detractors claim of him today. Critias killed more Athenians in his short rule than died in the decades of the war with Sparta. He expelled almost everyone from the city, and burned the docks, which were the perceived source of democratic power. He wasted all the priests of Eleusis for being tedious religious moralists. He saw the purpose of the Spartan constitution as the creation of one “supreme biological specimen,” and Critias sought to found a state based on such ideas. He and his friends were overthrown quite quickly.

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    dysgenics as opposed to eugenics combined with modern technology --another product of Socratic-Alexandrian scientific civilization--leads to mechanized and universalized dysgenics. I am trying to explain some of the implications of the work of Nietzsche for a world in which he is still the only prophet, and will remain so for some centuries.

    13 min
  • Consecrated Virginity - Pope Pius XII
    SACRA VIRGINITAS, 1954.
    Turn our mind and heart in a special manner to those men and women, who, vowed to the service of God, are suffering bitter and terrible persecutions in not a few countries. Let them imitate the example of the consecrated virgins of the early Church who with courageous and indomitable hearts suffered martyrdom for the sake of their virginity.
    1 hr 2 min
  • Directives for Women - Pope Pius XII
    to Congress of International UnionCatholic Women's Leagues, Sept 11 1947.
    Catholic women and girls, formerly you would have thought only of worthily playing your sacred and fruitful role in the management of a wholesome, strong, and radiant home; or you would have consecrated your life to the service of God in the composure of the cloister or in apostolic and charitable works. Beautiful ideals, where woman, in her proper place, and from her proper place, exercises quietly a powerful influence. But now you appear abroad, you enter the arena to take part in the battle: you have not sought to do so, but courageously you accept your new duties; not as resigned victims nor merely in a defensive spirit; you are determined to pass to the counter-attack and conquer.
    26 min
  • Women's Duties - Pope Pius XII
    QUESTA GRANDE VOSTRA ADUNATA, 1945.
    Ask yourself: How is that God-given dignity of womankind to be maintained and enhanced, especially today and in the circumstances in which Providence has placed us?
    34 min
  • To Mothers - Pope Pius XII

    DAVANTI A QUESTA, 1941.

    Christian mothers and beloved daughters, of your incomparable mission -- fraught in these days with so many difficulties and obstacles -- We have been able only briefly to describe the glories. What a majestic figure is that of the mother in the home as she fulfills her destiny at the cradle side, the nurse and teacher of her little ones! Hers is truly a task full of labor, and We should be tempted to deem her unequal to it were it not for the grace of God which is ever at hand to enlighten, direct, and sustain her in her daily anxieties and toil; were it not, too, for those other educators, mother-like in spirit and energy, whom she calls to aid her in the formation of these youthful souls. Imploring God to fill you to overflowing with His graces and to give increase to your manifold labors on behalf of the young entrusted to you, We grant you from Our heart, as a pledge of Heavenly favors, Our fatherly Apostolic Benediction.

    27 min
  • Chaste Wedlock - Pope Pius XI

    CASTI CONNUBII, 1930.

    As Saint Augustine admirably deduces from the words of the holy Apostle Saint Paul to Timothy when he says: "The Apostle himself is therefore a witness that marriage is for the sake of generation: 'I wish' he says 'young girls to marry.' And as if someone said to him, 'Why?' he immediately adds: 'To bear children, to be mothers of families'.

    2 hr
  • Secret to Christian Marriage - Pope Leo XIII
    ARCANUM, 1880. The great weight and crucial test of history, by which it is plainly proved that the legislative and judicial authority of which We are speaking has been freely and constantly used by the Church, even in times when some foolishly suppose the head of the State either to have consented to it or connived at it. It would be incredible and altogether absurd to assume that Christ our Lord condemned the long-standing practice of polygamy and divorce by authority delegated to Him by the procurator of the province, or the principal ruler of the Jews. And it would be equally extravagant to think that, when the Apostle Paul taught that divorces and incestuous marriages were not lawful, it was because Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero agreed with him or secretly commanded him so to teach. No man in his senses could ever be persuaded that the Church made so many laws about the holiness and indissolubility of marriage, and the marriages of slaves with the free-born, by power received from Roman emperors most hostile to the Christian name whose strongest desire was to destroy by violence and murder the rising Church of Christ. Still less could anyone believe this to be the case when the law of the Church was sometimes so divergent from the civil law that Ignatius the Martyr, Justin, Athenagoras and Tertullian publicly denounced as unjust and adulterous certain marriages which had been sanctioned by imperial law. (at Saint Peter’s in Rome, February 1880)
    57 min
  • Femmes Fatales, Part 3 - Heartiste

    If you are a masochist who likes women with vestigial penises, then by all means knock yourself out with the Amazonian Alpha. This is what you need to keep in mind to seduce her:

    1. DON’T accept her challenges. 

    2. DON’T answer shit tests ad infinitum.

    3. DON’T brag about your achievements.

    4. DON’T be ordinary.

    5. DON’T be beta.

    6. DON’T talk about her father.

    7. DO stroke her ego.

    8. DO qualify her hard.

    9. DO fuck her like a silverback gorilla.

    10. DO dump her after getting your rocks off. 

    Why would you want to spend your life with a nutcrushing battleaxe like this?

    13 min
  • Femmes Fatales, Part 2 - Heartiste

    Eternal Ingenues either came from divorced families with fathers who bought their love and loyalty, or they had a caring beta father heading an all-female family who had to divide his love between women. You’ll know if you are dating a potential Ingenue if you meet her girlfriends and they are all overprotective and annoyingly sassy cougars-in-training. The Eternal Ingenue HATES competition from attractive girls her own age.

    11 min

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