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Moom was just feeling in an Iwys-channeling mood, but it got filtered through thoughts about Ame\u0026#39;s recent semi-graduation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShe also sang \u0026quot;Only Yesterday,\u0026quot; which no one else has done yet. Pretty soon we can fill out an entire Hololive Covers the Carpenters album! ^_^\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIrys took a hard-rock cue from Moom, now Moom is taking a Sad Seventies cue from Irys (although she\u0026#39;s into Sad Seventies music herself). Becoming more fully yin-yang in their friendship... very cute, and adorable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI don\u0026#39;t know if the girls themselves understand, but guys really appreciate it when we get to see the non-catty side of female interactions. \u0026quot;Faith in female-kind restored\u0026quot; stuff. And Hololive is one of the few places we can get it these days."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/863038959218076910"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/863038959218076910"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727997044117#c863038959218076910","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/3\/24, 7:10 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-8487813323572341587"},"published":{"$t":"2024-10-03T12:05:35.418-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-10-03T12:05:35.418-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Well sure, but it’s not like Asians evolved to be ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Well sure, but it’s not like Asians evolved to be able to handle regular alcohol use. Sure this is separate from the type of nihilistic end stage empire slovenliness you describe, but genetic demographic differences do matter here. Us Europeans adapted to a few beers a day at least. 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I reviewed it in this comment and the one below it:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2023\/12\/venetian-ethnogenesis-and-its-role-as.html?showComment=1703579918603#c26788549891256692\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirected by Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, and others), score by Harry Manfredini (Friday the 13th), an early role for Ray Wise (Laura Palmer\u0026#39;s father in Twin Peaks), and shot on location in the cypress swamps near Charleston, SC.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYes, toward the end it does have a sophisticated mansion with dark mood lighting from candles everywhere, a dank underground dungeon, and a secret underwater passageway to escape.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVery dramatically lit, romantic look-and-feel to the swamps -- Gothic and haunting and sublime, not disgusting or ugly or cursed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a horror movie, it\u0026#39;s decent, but it\u0026#39;s a must-see and must-hear for the atmosphere created by the cinematography and score.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETell your viewers to watch it with the lights off! ^_^\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a plus, looks like it\u0026#39;s free to stream on Plex.tv. And only 90 min, not a tedious 2+ hour modern horror movie.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you want Bayou Gothic atmosphere, this is the gold standard!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/3959611903561367297"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/3959611903561367297"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727942912125#c3959611903561367297","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/3\/24, 4:08 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-3577251806441552776"},"published":{"$t":"2024-10-02T21:13:21.934-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-10-02T21:13:21.934-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Did neckbeards exist in Spain and its former colon..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Did neckbeards exist in Spain and its former colonies after the Spanish empire collapsed? Or is this just an Anglosphere \/ American thing?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/3577251806441552776"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/3577251806441552776"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727918001934#c3577251806441552776","title":""},{"rel":"related","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/7557116697296249695"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1613196951"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/2\/24, 9:13 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-1622004464087850426"},"published":{"$t":"2024-10-02T18:46:03.560-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-10-02T18:46:03.560-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"On so-called \u0026quot;decapitation\u0026quot; strikes, thi..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"On so-called \u0026quot;decapitation\u0026quot; strikes, this is pure projection from a weakly-bound nation as it attempts to take on a strongly-bound nation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen solidarity is intense, it applies at all levels and from the bottom-up -- their leaders are chosen and validated and respected by the levels below them. Not necessarily a plebiscite from the lowest level to choose the senior leader, but the leaders of each layer being chosen by the layer just underneath them. They are not unwelcome tyrants who the underlings are eager to get out from under the boot of.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo, the previous times Israel has assassinated the leaders of Hezbollah did nothing to stop Hezbollah from kicking Israel out of the country in the early 2000s, or from winning the war in 2006. Assassinating Nasrallah will do nothing this time either. Someone else will be promoted from the layer just below the top, to take his place and play the same role, with the asabiya of the entire group remaining just as intense as always.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat asabiya was built up over the decades in response to the Israeli nemesis on its southern border, a factor which remains today. It was not gifted from above, let alone by the specific individual of Nasrallah -- so his disappearance from the scene does not remove or weaken their solidarity, which will remain or even intensify until their nemesis is eliminated as a threat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAgain, most likely that means the majority of Israelis GTFO after military and economic defeat, accompanied by devastation to civilian areas near the meta-ethnic frontier -- and Tel Aviv being located in the north rather than the south of Israel makes it highly vulnerable to Hezbollah. That vulnerable location will make its residents leave sooner, not later.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn fact, one side of the conflict *is* weak to decapitation strikes -- Israel. Imagine if Netanyahu were assassinated tomorrow. It doesn\u0026#39;t even matter by whom -- Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, or one of his many internal enemies (a la Rabin\u0026#39;s assassin in 1995). Israeli society would immediately be plunged into civil war, following an unforeseen succession crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBitterly divided amongst themselves, they would be all the more easily driven away from the Levant by Hezbollah (and Yemen, and Iran, and whoever else wanted to take advantage of such a profitable opportunity).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEgypt\u0026#39;s and Jordan\u0026#39;s political elite, who have also survived thanks only to American imperial patronage since the \u0026#39;70s and \u0026#39;90s, are just as weak as Netanyahu. An assassination in either country would plunge the nation into civil war, and the anti-Israeli faction would win. Their leaders *are* more of an unwelcome tyrant promoted from on-high by a foreign empire, not reflecting bottom-up solidarity and cohesion as in Yemen and Lebanon in their post-integrative civil war eras.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same asymmetries exist for any action. If Israel bombs an apartment building in Beirut and kills 500 Lebanese, Lebanon remains intact and fighting stronger against Israel. If Lebanon bombs an apartment building in Tel Aviv and kills 500 Israelis, Israel begins to fracture, Israelis begin to flee their country altogether, and they are less willing to continue the war, for fear of further destruction back home.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHezbollah\u0026#39;s predecessor in the early \u0026#39;80s already proved that -- blow up a couple hundred American and French soldiers, and their entire militaries will leave Lebanon altogether. If those invading forces had blown up a couple hundred Lebanese Shia, the Shia would have remained in place and continued fighting.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIsrael is irrational to pursue decapitation strikes and terrorism in Lebanon, since any reciprocal response would cause widespread fragmentation within Israel, while the Israeli act has caused only minor damage to Lebanon. But flailing imperial outposts like Israel rarely act rationally when their own internal cohesion is fraying, and their imperial sponsor itself is collapsing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInto the dustbin of history they go, then..."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/1622004464087850426"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/1622004464087850426"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727909163560#c1622004464087850426","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/2\/24, 6:46 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-1438554945308522055"},"published":{"$t":"2024-10-02T18:15:51.161-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-10-02T18:15:51.161-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"As usual, the diaspora population should not be tr..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"As usual, the diaspora population should not be trusted as a window into the current state of the homeland. Most Lebanese diaspora groups are Christian, not Shia Muslim, so they\u0026#39;re not representative.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut more than that, they haven\u0026#39;t lived there since the unification of all of Lebanon behind Hezbollah since the 2000s and 2010s. The diaspora\u0026#39;s most recent contact on a long-term basis was probably their relatives living there in the \u0026#39;80s, who fled the civil war, or even earlier -- but in either case, back when Lebanon was still highly fragmented and tribes were mutually hostile.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntegrative civil wars have one faction winning, and gaining national influence and control -- but they integrate the losers into the whole, they don\u0026#39;t keep rubbing their faces in the loss or relegate them to second-class status. Much like how American Southerners were integrated into a single whole American society after the Civil War \u0026amp; Reconstruction era, not humiliated or cast aside or over-taxed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Islamic terrorists invaded Lebanon in the 2010s, largely from the Salafist Gulf Arab countries (and with the support of the American Empire), Hezbollah defended Christian Lebanese people as well as their church buildings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt will be no different if the current Israeli invasion targets Christian populations and churches -- which it has already started to do, by launching airstrikes in the heavily Christian Bekaa Valley, not just Southern Lebanese Shia areas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHezbollah is fighting to defend all of Lebanon from its Israeli nemesis. And by now, Christian Lebanese who have remained living inside Lebanon, are coming around to realize how things have changed from the Civil War days.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey\u0026#39;re grateful to Hezbollah for repelling Israel -- they\u0026#39;re no longer asking Israel to help Christian Lebanese kill Muslim Lebanese. That stage has been over for decades, and now the integrative civil war has led to a nation that is far more united across sectarian lines than before.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1982, Israeli invaders could rely on the eager, open, and pre-emptive collaboration with a large share of the local population, taking advantage of the civil war the country was in. There was no such collaboration even in the 2006 invasion, and also none in the current invasion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhether the diaspora population likes it or not, Lebanon has moved on from the civil war, and strongly cohered around Southern Shia leadership, to the point where no other sects are asking Israel if they can help the invasion, in order to get one over on their neighbors from a rival sect."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/1438554945308522055"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/1438554945308522055"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727907351161#c1438554945308522055","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/2\/24, 6:15 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-5312607039422054320"},"published":{"$t":"2024-10-02T17:54:48.305-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-10-02T17:54:48.305-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The main thing Hezbollah has, though, is not home-..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The main thing Hezbollah has, though, is not home-turf advantage, but asabiya, or social solidarity, which they first began experiencing as a result of the Zionist invasion of the Levant, but particularly after the major Israeli victory in the \u0026#39;67 war. Then the open Israeli invasion of the early \u0026#39;80s.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThey found themselves on a strong meta-ethnic frontier, between Southern Lebanon and Israel. Like all such meta-ethnic frontiers with hostile invaders, this made them band together to resist it -- and resist it they always have, driving out the Zionists by the early 2000s and repelling another invasion in 2006, not to mention the current bitch-slapping they\u0026#39;re giving the Israeli invaders.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn fact, Lebanon has gone through an integrative civil war -- the Lebanese Civil War -- so it is in far stronger and cohesive shape than Israel, which has never gone through an integrative civil war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the winners, as always, were those from the meta-ethnic frontier, namely the Southern Lebanese, who were largely Shia Muslims, but also some Druze. They defeated their rivals, the largely Christian \/ Maronite North, who resided far from the meta-ethnic frontier and therefore had low trust, low cooperation, and were easily picked apart by those with high trust and cohesion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs usual, those far from the frontier collaborated with the meta-ethnic nemesis against their fellow countrymen, which damned them to marginal influence in the aftermath -- they helped the Israeli invading Army massacre Lebanese people, as long as they weren\u0026#39;t Maronites from the North. Traitors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHezbollah was the only faction in the war to remain armed afterwards -- the de facto military for the entire nation, now united behind Hezbollah\u0026#39;s leadership, no longer a patchwork of hostile separate tribes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIsrael never went through an integrative civil war, it has no intensely cohesive faction within it that leads the entire nation, and it is on the brink of disintegrative civil war \/ breakdown. Since the 1970s Camp David Accords, they have only survived thanks to imperial patronage by America, but that is now collapsing as the American Empire collapses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHezbollah did not grow as an outpost of the Iranian state, their cohesion was entirely organic and local, in response to the presence of Israel on its border. Their winning over the Maronites in the North was due to their own cohesion, not Iran\u0026#39;s thumb on the scales. Their regional leadership owes little to Iran, however much they may be allies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is the main factor behind their continued success over Israeli attempts to invade them. And by now, that is extending down into Israel, where their legions of northern settlers will likely never return and Northern Israel becomes de facto a part of Hezbollah-led Lebanon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that is only the beginning -- whiny, toddler-like feet-stamping Israelis will decide to GTFO the entire Middle East, and go back to Europe or wherever else, rather than put up with increasing incursions from Southern Lebanon, regardless of what else Iran does."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/5312607039422054320"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/5312607039422054320"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727906088305#c5312607039422054320","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/2\/24, 5:54 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-7062714735058377898"},"published":{"$t":"2024-10-02T17:36:18.824-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-10-02T17:36:18.824-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"As Hezbollah begins wiping out yet another Israeli..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"As Hezbollah begins wiping out yet another Israeli invasion of Lebanon, through luring them in and setting up ambushes, it reinforces what I said earlier about the sublime -- labyrinthine fortresses, with their imposing and puzzling presence, only feel unsettling to outsiders -- for whom the building was not made! A crypt is only cryptic to invaders!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt feels familiar and comfy and SAFE to those who have inhabited it for years and decades, who know its maze-like twists and turns, its dead ends, its trap doors, and secret blocks to push in order to reveal a hidden passage-way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can\u0026#39;t get that cozy safe familiar feeling with a light-airy-open panopticon space. These spaces only flourish when the risk of nomadic raiders barging in at any given moment, is receding.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026#39;s too bad they didn\u0026#39;t call them \u0026quot;Romanesque novels\u0026quot; instead of \u0026quot;Gothic novels\u0026quot; -- the buildings they describe are really more Dark Age than Humanistic \/ Renaissance Age. In fact, the main castle in Otranto is from the Dark Ages.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.alamy.com\/the-aragonese-castle-of-otranto-province-of-lecce-salento-puglia-region-italy-it-was-originally-built-in-the-11th-century-image441880048.html\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECan\u0026#39;t find info on when it was originally built, but it was damaged in a siege of the 11th C, so sometime around or before then. Rebuilt or added onto in the 12th C as well. Rebuilt after a late 15th-C siege, but still in the original style.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVery Romanesque, not Gothic or Renaissance or Spanish Golden Age at all (despite being patronized by the Aragonese during \/ after the Renaissance). Very Brutalist, for that matter. ^_^"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/7062714735058377898"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/7062714735058377898"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727904978824#c7062714735058377898","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/2\/24, 5:36 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-4650388560521996538"},"published":{"$t":"2024-10-02T17:15:11.331-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-10-02T17:15:11.331-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\u0026quot;The internet did it\u0026quot; really reveals the..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u0026quot;The internet did it\u0026quot; really reveals the collapse in intelligence, creativity, breadth of knowledge, etc. -- and it\u0026#39;s always from arts \u0026amp; humanities types, who are supposed to *not* think like STEM spergs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShould we learn anything from any other society, in any other place, in any other time, that seems to resemble our own? No -- they didn\u0026#39;t have the internet, so what possible comparison could there be to our own society?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShould we learn anything from social psychology or sociology or anthropology? No -- that\u0026#39;s not about the internet or tech changes causing broad social changes. There might be a sociologist or two who is tech determinist, but not as an entire field, so don\u0026#39;t bother with the field as a whole.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPhilosphers don\u0026#39;t focus on tech changes either, so who cares about any of their insights? Ditto for religious figures.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWriters, painters, musicians -- they couldn\u0026#39;t have any insight into our society, cuz they didn\u0026#39;t have the internet back then. Maybe their content was good, but we would learn nothing about the major problems of our day by consulting them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELazy and downright retarded tech determinism is just another symptom of imperial collapse."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/4650388560521996538"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/4650388560521996538"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727903711331#c4650388560521996538","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/2\/24, 5:15 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-7557116697296249695"},"published":{"$t":"2024-10-02T17:05:45.996-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-10-02T17:05:45.996-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Urban Dictionary\u0026#39;s oldest popular entry for \u0026q..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Urban Dictionary\u0026#39;s oldest popular entry for \u0026quot;neckbeard\u0026quot; is from 2005, and that sounds about right for when slovenliness, anti-society hostility, social-emotional unit of 1, legalize weed, etc. all took off to mainstream levels.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese were formerly just for marginal outcast sub-cultures, not a highly common recognizable presence of everyday normie social environments, like your neighbors in a Walmart or the tech bros in a Whole Foods.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMost of the entries for \u0026quot;neckbeard\u0026quot; are from the 2010s, when this trend reached epidemic levels. The 2000s were more of an initial \/ transitional stage. 3-day stubble on normies was just not there in the \u0026#39;90s, not even among grunge \/ alternative rock types (and even grunge was a fleeting part of the \u0026#39;90s, maybe \u0026#39;93-\u0026#39;95 for normies).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo for simplicity, we\u0026#39;ll just say this is a 21st-century phenomenon, and as always not related to social media, smartphones, bla bla bla."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/7557116697296249695"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/7557116697296249695"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727903145996#c7557116697296249695","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/2\/24, 5:05 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-9033767209482575643"},"published":{"$t":"2024-10-02T16:58:14.036-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-10-02T16:58:14.036-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"This explains the rise of autistic-like symptoms i..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"This explains the rise of autistic-like symptoms in collapsing America -- autists live entirely in their own mind, they don\u0026#39;t recognize other people as being full human beings like themselves. Other people are just robots or animals or something. Social-emotional unit of 1 (\u0026quot;autism\u0026quot; comes from the Greek root \u0026quot;auto\u0026quot; meaning \u0026quot;oneself\u0026quot;)."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/9033767209482575643"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/9033767209482575643"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727902694036#c9033767209482575643","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/2\/24, 4:58 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-3342916451371565772"},"published":{"$t":"2024-10-02T16:53:41.581-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-10-02T16:53:41.581-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It\u0026#39;s more of a bum-ification of American lifes..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It\u0026#39;s more of a bum-ification of American lifestyles, highly resembling a bum, vagrant, homeless, junkie, etc. And in fact, that was a common insult as this trend rose -- you look like a bum.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBums also have the hostile attitude and behavior toward others, as well as seething delusions of self-importance, which Japanese recluses do not. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBums don\u0026#39;t have friends or acquaintances or family. Social unit of 1.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBums are highly prone to substance abuse, self-harm, and suicide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso, bums are not online at all, let alone terminally online, and their counterparts of 50 years ago (who were marginal outcasts rather than increasingly the norm) were not constantly hooked into the TV, radio, video game arcades, movie theaters, or other form of mass media. Tech determinism takes another big fat L.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd like the common slob, bums are not merely lonely, longing for social contact, pathetic yet sympathetic, etc. They are not frustrated extraverts -- they are bitterly opposed to performing the duties that social contact requires, and they resent anyone who tries to hold them to these standards in return for social belonging.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir shared fundamental core is isolation to the degree of living in a social-emotional unit of 1, and the other symptoms stem from that -- unlike the Japanese recluse who still lives with his family, as he has all his life and as he plans to for the rest of their days.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOh, and bums *are* capable of finding animal and other non-human companions, while spurning their fellow man. Much like the common slob, who is a people-hater (and a self-hater) but may very well have one or more pets. It\u0026#39;s specifically a hostility toward society, which animals do not belong to either, so connecting with animals socially and emotionally does not violate the anti-society lifestyle of bums and common slobs."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/3342916451371565772"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/3342916451371565772"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727902421581#c3342916451371565772","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/2\/24, 4:53 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-386965804074434437"},"published":{"$t":"2024-10-02T16:29:57.795-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-10-02T16:29:57.795-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The explosion of slovenliness in the past 20 or so..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The explosion of slovenliness in the past 20 or so years is another nail in the coffin for tech determinists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E1. As with most other symptoms of how bad America sucks these days, this symptom is largely absent from Japan, which has the same trends as we do for tech \/ internet \/ social media \/ smartphones \/ etc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven the hikikomori in Japan shave their face and neck regularly, wear clean clothes, bathe and clean their hair, keep their room tidy (relative to their age-mates), and are not overweight let alone obese. Not using drugs or alcohol. They are recluses from the broader society, but they still live with their family, and therefore belong to a stable social unit of size greater than 1.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EContrast with the far more common American slob (double-digit % vs. the maybe 1% of Japanese who are hikikomori) with regular 2,3,4+ day stubble (including neckbeards as a special case), unwashed \/ wrinkled clothes, sweatpants or pajamas in public, days without bathing or washing hair, messy \/ filthy \/ cluttered \/ moldy room or apartment or home, overweight or skinny-fat or obese, likely using alcohol or drugs at least occasionally and maybe regularly, living totally alone or with house-mates with whom there is no stable social-emotional connection, therefore living in a social unit of 1.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E2. There is no online substitute for the IRL practice, so the \u0026quot;online did it\u0026quot; argument can\u0026#39;t even take off the ground. It\u0026#39;s not like they\u0026#39;re living vicariously through a 1950s-\u0026#39;70s-looking character in the Sims, Minecraft, etc., who *does* have normal grooming and hygiene and tidy living spaces and a stable social unit of size greater than 1. They prefer \u0026quot;gritty\u0026quot; characters who are just as slovenly as themselves, perhaps even more ugly and cursed than IRL, a case of online imitating IRL rather than the reverse, let alone online replacing IRL.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESocial disintegration is the general disease underlying all these disparate symptoms, and it\u0026#39;s one phase of the long-term social dynamics of imperial societies (the hangover, after the soaring high, and before the eventual return to baseline).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot giving a shit, checking out, letting go of standards and practices, self-harming \/ suicide, regular drug \/ alcohol use, and so on -- these are signs of disintegration, where people no longer do what is required to fit into a larger social unit, but actively have a hostile attitude and behavior toward such requirements and towards other people of their would-be social unit in general.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe self-harm and substance abuse and self-uglification symptoms are even more obvious signs of a hangover -- plunging far below the starting baseline level after the soaring high, and into deeply negative territory, where you turn not only on your fellows but even on yourself.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJapan didn\u0026#39;t go through the soaring high of imperial expansion and collapse, so they\u0026#39;re merely returning to baseline after being a regional great power. Maybe gently overshooting the decline, into negative territory, but not by much or not at all. They are not plunging into the abyss like we are.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGlorious Nippon."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/386965804074434437"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/386965804074434437"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727900997795#c386965804074434437","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/2\/24, 4:29 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-5566007719308179796"},"published":{"$t":"2024-10-01T15:42:16.685-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-10-01T15:42:16.685-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"There is apparently a far greater legacy of the Ro..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"There is apparently a far greater legacy of the Roman Empire\u0026#39;s genetic cosmopolitanism in Iberia and North Africa compared to Italy and the former Yugoslavia:\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/x.com\/Peter_Nimitz\/status\/1837925909329772643"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/5566007719308179796"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/5566007719308179796"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727811736685#c5566007719308179796","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Aidan Barrett"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/09206683868950960625"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1777138243"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/1\/24, 3:42 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-3431634056209466606"},"published":{"$t":"2024-10-01T03:15:20.167-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-10-01T03:15:20.167-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ame,\n\nMost people know you for your innovative sid..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Ame,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMost people know you for your innovative side, but that\u0026#39;s neglecting your nostalgic and canon-preserving side. Your karaoke setlists are filled with classics, and even cult classics like \u0026quot;Punk Rock Girl\u0026quot;. Alongside Irys, you choose the coolest classic movies for watchalongs. You even play classic video games like Mario 64 and Donkey Kong Country (with its equally classic soundtrack). And you have an entire stream dedicated to classic \u0026#39;90s tech!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWherever you\u0026#39;re going, please do not neglect that side of who you are. Being part of a scene, subculture, industry, etc. is as much about preserving and celebrating its classics, as it is about trying to add your own contribution.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd as much as you may think you\u0026#39;re just goofing around with friends when you stream, I\u0026#39;ll bet there are younger fans who look up to you like \u0026quot;my friend\u0026#39;s cool older sister, the one who turned me on to the Dead Milkmen!\u0026quot; Or perhaps fans your own age or older, who see you as someone with cool taste, and are eager to know who\u0026#39;s in the Ame canon playlist, so they can start exploring and passing along cult classics as well.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn fact, as a SoCal lifer, it\u0026#39;s your duty to help preserve all this awesome culture -- you guys created so much of it!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EShould you consider streaming again, let me send one final unsolicited suggestion for the perfect games, which would tie together so many of your interests -- horror \/ sci-fi movies, FPS games, atmospheric soundtracks, and the \u0026#39;90s \/ y2k zeitgeist. Doom II, and Perfect Dark (ideally the original, but there\u0026#39;s a remaster too). I could never get anyone to play these classics, but they deserve it, and they\u0026#39;re totally up your alley. ^_^\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBest of luck, wherever your semi-post-Holo journeys take you!"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/3431634056209466606"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/3431634056209466606"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727766920167#c3431634056209466606","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"10\/1\/24, 3:15 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-887329951759651932"},"published":{"$t":"2024-09-29T21:03:29.187-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-09-29T21:03:29.187-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"And focusing too much on beauty takes away from th..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"And focusing too much on beauty takes away from the sublime, which these trads are supposed to know about from Kant\u0026#39;s aesthetic writings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeauty is not reducible to fussily ornate superficial details -- but even if it were, for the sake of argument, who says that\u0026#39;s all there is to aesthetics?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe danger, the daunting imposing-ness, the transcendant, the awe-inspiring, the intimidating grandeur of the Egyptian pyramids, Roman mega-domes like the Pantheon, Romanesque fortresses, and American Brutalist libraries, are vivid reminders that aesthetic value is not just about beauty, but the sublime as well.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026#39;s not just the dangerous elements either -- sublime can also give us a feeling of safety, because it\u0026#39;s a familiar dangerous place, where we can safely navigate it and hide, but where our enemies would be confused and misled and trapped. Good!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat an uncultured person calls maze-like and claustrophobic and opaque -- I call cozy! There\u0026#39;s no coziness to a wide-open empty vacuum, an agoraphobic spotlighted panopticon, the most transparent and easily navigable and free-breathing space imaginable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESorry, but if caves, crypts, and compartments don\u0026#39;t appeal to you, you\u0026#39;re a roomba, not a human being."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/887329951759651932"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/887329951759651932"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727658209187#c887329951759651932","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/29\/24, 9:03 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-1419600062712671680"},"published":{"$t":"2024-09-29T20:43:55.901-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-09-29T20:43:55.901-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Reducing \u0026quot;beauty\u0026quot; to \u0026quot;fussily ornat..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Reducing \u0026quot;beauty\u0026quot; to \u0026quot;fussily ornate superficial details\u0026quot; is not just lacking in taste -- ignoring all the other factors in beauty, like proportion, line \/ shape \/ volume, scale \/ complexity, materials, texture, color, motion or dynamism, and so on and so forth -- it\u0026#39;s a sad and plainly pathetic attempt to LARP as a European from 1700, which none of these Americans have ever been.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFussily ornate superficial details are literally the only factor distinguishing beautiful Euro Early Modern buildings from beautiful American Modern buildings. So if you\u0026#39;re a sad Euro LARP-er, that\u0026#39;s the only thing you can whine about -- and it is, in fact, the only thing they whine about.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd because the degree of ornamental encrustation is so clearly tied to the geopolitical context, and not some purely aesthetic matter, I don\u0026#39;t think it\u0026#39;s a core factor of what constitutes beauty anyway. Certainly no Roman building would pass as beautiful, nor Romanesque buildings outside of Southern Italy, the Egyptian pyramids, or most other styles that these so-called trads pretend to give a shit about.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf it\u0026#39;s encrustation they want, why don\u0026#39;t they jizz their jeans over Southeast Asian architecture? As I pointed out in that post from last year, one of the few places on Earth, certainly within Eurasia, that has NEVER had a unipolar geopolitical context. Or much of Meso-American architecture, when they were multiple rival kingdoms instead of a single sprawling empire?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYet the trads claim to love Roman architecture and are not just ignorant of Southeast Asian and Meso-American styles, but would look down their nose and shrug their shoulders about \u0026quot;what\u0026#39;s the big deal here?\u0026quot; if shown examples of them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo clearly their obsession with encrustation has nothing to do with aesthetics. It\u0026#39;s just about LARP-ing as a Euro aristocrat from 1700, which was a multipolar context and did have highly encrusted forms of ornament.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESorry, dork! You will never be an 18th-century Euro aristocrat. You\u0026#39;re just some insecure taste-lacking nerd from America."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/1419600062712671680"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/1419600062712671680"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727657035901#c1419600062712671680","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/29\/24, 8:43 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-6543002007041519225"},"published":{"$t":"2024-09-29T20:28:46.097-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-09-29T20:28:46.097-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It obviously has nothing to do with a loss of a hi..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It obviously has nothing to do with a loss of a higher project that we were devoting ourselves to -- Midcentury America was the height of the civil rights movement, human rights, technological utopianism, returning to nature, while also colonizing outer space, mass education, public health, and so on and so forth. Very high-minded and idealistic and taking the entire civilization as its scope.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDitto for New Soviet Man, the dictatorship of the proletariat, cosmonauts, hi-tech, and all that other high-minded stuff from our rival empire. And the very broad-ranging Salafist program in Saudi Arabia, as well as their oil-driven utopianism about mass education and other cultural development.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe were only beginning to develop high-minded civilizational goals of our own in 1890, when the Riggs Library was built -- that\u0026#39;s why it\u0026#39;s an open imitation of the accomplishments of other empires from across the world in centuries past.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe don\u0026#39;t have any new civilizational goals. All that neolibs and woketards came up with was footnotes to the Civil Rights Act, basically. And it is not a civilizational project, cuz only extremist woketards are pursuing it and find it appealing or edifying -- more than half the country wants it killed off, not sustained. The opposite of how people reacted to putting a man on the moon in the good ol\u0026#39; 1960s.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so it is only with neoliberalism that we have begun uglifying our buildings (Deconstructionism), or giving up and LARP-ing all over again (lame half-baked historical \u0026quot;references\u0026quot; in Postmodernism). And if not that, blandifying with glass and steel boxes. No Brutalist building was a rectangular or other prism (box) -- including the Lauinger Library, which has all sorts of components at varyious scales.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only have we run out of ideas or goals, we have entered the auto-immune disease phase of the imperial lifespan, so we are actively turning against the goals and cultural output of our heyday -- like replacing legal color-blindness and incorporating all Americans into one great big happy society, with legalized group discrimination (in favor of Democrat constituencies, against Republican ones), and fragmenting the society into hostile tribes. And literally bulldozing or at least whitewashing our buildings in iconoclasm, replacing them with insipid featureless smooth boxes."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/6543002007041519225"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/6543002007041519225"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727656126097#c6543002007041519225","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/29\/24, 8:28 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-8607980315580343823"},"published":{"$t":"2024-09-29T20:10:23.197-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-09-29T20:10:23.197-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"As for ornament, these people don\u0026#39;t mean ornam..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"As for ornament, these people don\u0026#39;t mean ornamentation. Brutalism is full of ornamentation -- every surface is textured, has multiple scales \/ complexity, the materials are varied and contrasting (e.g., gleaming futuristic chrome and gnarly primitive concrete), there\u0026#39;s a rainbow of color (grayed \/ bleached as of the 2010s), lines forming shapes and shapes forming volumes (not a box with flat walls), and so on and so forth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat these whiners about ornamentation mean is overly fussy an intricate ornamentation, like Rococo. Note that this totally contradicts their professed love of Roman culture -- Roman architecture is just as barren of fussy ornamentation as Brutalism is. And often in the same materials, like monochrome concrete -- the Pantheon.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI discovered what drives fussy vs. simple ornamentation last year:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2023\/05\/imperial-competition-fuels-ornamental.html\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt reflects the geopolitical environment -- unipolar gives a simple ornamentation, while multipolar gives a fussy ornamentation. Multipolar geopolitics triggers an arms race in cultural competition, leading to ever more elaborate styles. Unipolar geopolitics prevents this from happening -- who are you trying to show off against, if you\u0026#39;re the only empire in town?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERomans were the only empire in all of Europe and the Mediterranean, whose only rival was way over in the Middle East (Parthians). Their unipolar geopolitical environment made them favor simple ornamentation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor that matter, the Franks were just about the only empire in Europe during their reign -- there was the Bulgarian Empire quite a ways away, in Thrace, and a fleeting appearance of the Byzantines in Italy, but it was mostly unipolar for the Frankish Empire. And so, their buildings are not very ornate either, nor is Romanesque which followed it \/ derived from it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only place where Romanesque got ornate was in Southern Italy, since that was the site of multiple empires vying for control -- Lombards, Normans, Vikings, Arabs, Byzantines, and so on. I was thinking of doing a whole post on this topic, in honor of our Southern Italian panther princess, Raora, but you can just image search Romanesque Sicily or Romanesque Naples for some examples. Intricate sculpture, high-contrast polychrome exteriors -- looks almost like Medieval Yemen, another place where multiple empires competed for dominance (as contrasted with Umayyad architecture, which is more simple, cuz they were the only caliphate in town).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo whining about how American buildings used to ape the ornate-ness of multipolar Europe, i.e. from about 1300 or so onward, and how we stopped doing that after those empires all blew themselves up in the World Wars, is missing the point. It was just America and Russia and Saudi Arabia as empires around the world -- unipolar geopolitics led to simple ornamentation. We weren\u0026#39;t competing against many other empires for showiness."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/8607980315580343823"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/8607980315580343823"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727655023197#c8607980315580343823","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/29\/24, 8:10 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-4108840512255330740"},"published":{"$t":"2024-09-29T19:33:27.054-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-09-29T19:33:27.054-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Late Millennials and Zoomers like that author can ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Late Millennials and Zoomers like that author can be somewhat forgiven for thinking that Brutalist and other Midcentury buildings are barren, colorless, dull, drab, etc. -- because they\u0026#39;ve never been inside them as they were originally created and DECORATED.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring the neolib era, and going on a psychotic iconoclastic crusade of dullification and ugliness during the woketard 2010s, all of these Midcentury interiors were razed, defaced, desecrated, bleached of color and blandified.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIDK what exactly the Lauinger Library looked like in the 1970s when it was built, cuz as usual the school and Google have conspired to erase all evidence from their image search engine. They don\u0026#39;t want us to know how great it was, otherwise we\u0026#39;d hold present-day elites to the same standards, and they\u0026#39;d fall pathetically short, and we\u0026#39;d no longer tRuSt ThE eXpErTS.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are only a handful of recent pics, and they clearly show carpet and chairs and other furniture and decorations from the 1990s at the earliest, possibly from the 21st century. Most results for the Lauinger Library deliberately show the Riggs Library, unprompted. Maybe the school library has scanned photos in some dedicated collection online, but I\u0026#39;m not going to burrow into their library system just to check -- I know what all those Midcentury buildings used to look like.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere\u0026#39;s the only old pic I could find:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/library.georgetown.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/x\/6b%20Library_Murray%20Room_DH_2jpg%20%281%29.jpg\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStylish Midcentury Modern chair, not a goofy oversized one or a crappy swivel office chair from the \u0026#39;90s or later. And I doubt that carpet color is gray like it is now, too bright -- probably red, as was the standard.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGuarantee there were plants around the interior, too, as opposed to none now. Maybe even some monumental sculpture, maybe a body of water inside or outside, warm wood paneling inside... I don\u0026#39;t know, but that\u0026#39;s what it would have looked like by default.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVery few of these Midcentury interiors were preserved after the iconoclasm of the 2010s, assuming the building didn\u0026#39;t get demolished entirely. What you experience today is a ruins or a desecration of its former glory.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026#39;ll keep posting this, cuz it\u0026#39;s such a vivid preserved-in-amber look-and-feel of what Brutalist interiors were created as. The Mary Singleton Senior Center in Jacksonville, FL:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/jaxpsychogeo.com\/north\/mary-singleton-senior-center\/\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs for libraries, I just visited brutalistinteriors.tumblr.com, a great online gallery that\u0026#39;s periodically updated (and with info on what is shown, not gatekept by gay wannabes). From the most recent entry:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/fad1265bb2ec00577ab574addd58259d\/69f0b0dc198de8cf-d0\/s1280x1920\/dc107f4fd36619ff742a790f7a65db00add2f245.jpg\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhaddaya know? -- sumptuous red carpet, warm orange-y brown stained wood with visible grain, and woodgrain impressions left from the wooden formwork onto the concrete after it was poured, giving concrete a wood panel look-and-feel too. Coffered ceiling -- with incandescent lights (fluorescent is later, not Brutalist). Sharply tailored upholstery on the chairs, not loose and drab -- and in vivid violet. Technology that looks sharp and futuristic, not cheap plastic made-in-China crap sprawling all over like today. And, if people wanted to, wall hangings of any sort, including sober portraits of founding patriarchs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is City Hall from St. John\u0026#39;s in New Foundland, Canada -- hardly the high-status location of Georgetown, Washington, DC. These amazing spaces were funded all over the map, part of Midcentury populuxe. You didn\u0026#39;t have to jet-set over to the tony neighborhoods of the empire\u0026#39;s capital to experience them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETHAT is what Brutalism is on the inside, not the neolib or woketard desecration that is there today. The Tumblr entry has lots of current pics, and it just isn\u0026#39;t as sublime and other-worldly without the original elements -- blander and more joke-y or kindergarten-y."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/4108840512255330740"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/4108840512255330740"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727652807054#c4108840512255330740","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/29\/24, 7:33 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-6687690765097742554"},"published":{"$t":"2024-09-28T15:39:27.314-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-09-28T15:39:27.314-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"There\u0026#39;s an article in the American Conservativ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"There\u0026#39;s an article in the American Conservative with some arguments in favor of Brutalist architecture:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/two-cheers-for-brutalism\/"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/6687690765097742554"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/6687690765097742554"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727552367314#c6687690765097742554","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1613196951"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/28\/24, 3:39 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2276374209508637497"},"published":{"$t":"2024-09-28T15:30:34.299-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-09-28T15:30:34.299-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"We can go up even further in scale. How much do ri..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"We can go up even further in scale. How much do rivalries between high schools matter to people in the 20th century vs the 21st century? 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In a friendly rivalry with each other, but forming a lower-level collective from which they could scale up to the next level of the entire school. Also the labels \u0026quot;seniors\u0026quot;, \u0026quot;juniors\u0026quot;, etc. were powerful collective identifiers, tantamount to tribal names.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EToday, and probably as of the 2010s, or beginning in the 2000s, these year numbers mean nothing. They\u0026#39;re just utilitarian measuring sticks for when a certain batch of isolated individuals is going to GTFO the school, never to return. They\u0026#39;re not labels for a collective identity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is also why school reunions used to be popular, and why the Ridgefield Memorial \u0026#39;96 video explicitly says it\u0026#39;s a time capsule for their 10-year reunion. They commemorated your graduating class, which was a tribe unto itself.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI did attend my one-year class reunion in 2000, which was on school grounds and informal. And from what I read on Facebook at the time, our 10-year reunion in 2009 was a pretty big festive ordeal as well (though I wasn\u0026#39;t around any longer to partake).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHowever, I don\u0026#39;t recall my college class\u0026#39; reunions ever being a big deal. And the monthly alumni magazine, where people can share what they\u0026#39;re up to in a dedicated section, has been nearly silent for as long as I can remember. And so are most other classes from the 21st century.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026#39;s not just a difference between deep high school bonds, among people who grew up together, vs. college bonds where people arrive as strangers and don\u0026#39;t have much growing up left to do. The 20th-century classes still chat with and update each other, the social fragmentation after graduation took a quantum leap with the 21st-century classes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet we\u0026#39;re the same people who were tightly bound to our high school graduating classes -- so it seems like a zeitgeist or year effect, not a cohort one. Namely, if your class was from the 20th century, it formed part of your collective identity. If it was from the 21st century, it did not -- regardless of what stage of schooling it was for.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI\u0026#39;m guessing this coasted into the very next class after mine, since they had the novelty of being *the* y2k class. But after that, fading relevance of your graduating class year, as part of your collective identity -- not just during school itself, but throughout your life."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/4430816269237716125"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/4430816269237716125"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727551313558#c4430816269237716125","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/28\/24, 3:21 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-757274864472670325"},"published":{"$t":"2024-09-28T15:16:04.272-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-09-28T15:16:04.272-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Slightly later in 1998, not the last day of school..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Slightly later in 1998, not the last day of school but some kind of junior vs. senior girls contest day (flag football). Overflow of teenage feminine chaos warning, both for noise levels and sources, and camerawork and editing. It\u0026#39;s watchable, just very hormonal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7zBA2NwIqok\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis year or the class of \u0026#39;99 were the last pure Gen-X classes, and it shows. No negging, in fact plenty of boy-crazy cat-calling, non-ironic appreciation for \u0026#39;80s music, head empty \/ no thoughts while actively engaged in a highly charged social setting -- forming a crowd or mob, not fragmented into shy or emo wallflowers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe casual and widespread range of the pranks they play on each other is another testament to the high trust levels -- you aren\u0026#39;t allowed to prank someone outside your circle, which would be a casus belli. They\u0026#39;re chasing each other down streets, through shopping centers (even causing a minor car accident), and all around the school grounds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe teachers and administrators just try to keep it under control, they don\u0026#39;t shut it down, let alone haul the pranksters into detention. They are, as usual, acting like adult family members, not adults from outside the entire social circle as they are today. During the flag football game, the camera pans to a group of teachers, and they converse with the students like supportive and familiar family members.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGoing back to casual partial nudity, right at the beginning one of the girls hikes up the back of her dress to reveal her panties, which have color-contrasting numbers for \u0026quot;98\u0026quot; slapped onto them. It combines mooning your rivals with a display of your army\u0026#39;s coat-of-arms. Even as a member of the class of \u0026#39;99, I must concede she builds a persuasive case for \u0026#39;98...\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd these girls *are* behaving like an army, scaling up the familial bonds, solidarity, and team spirit to encompass everyone in their grade at school (and by extension the entire school, as mentioned with the in-group nature of pranks).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBack when girls\u0026#39; tendency toward clique-ish-ness was harnassed to build larger and larger cliques, not fragment into micro-circles with internecine backbiting -- and with hostile bullying rather than collegial pranking -- a la Mean Girls of just in the following decade and generation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis degree of students forming large-scale armies within a school is totally unimaginable today. Nobody gives a shit about anyone else, at most a handful of acquaintances, but nothing near an entire class cohering together into an army."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/757274864472670325"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/757274864472670325"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727550964272#c757274864472670325","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"agnostic"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/12967177967469961883"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"31","height":"21","src":"\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRBQY8w-EtED_2Ym8wOzSelnKL1DRQ8m8ToWFw0iDVWZFlHzLl39tbSH94ztMt3hVwGha_VINnxlc4TDqA_LmXFyWW_OUQdwm1jm1tDz02dTVY-xrWbhrXvbgrBgL6kcE\/s220\/hellomarylou.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2138581357"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/28\/24, 3:16 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-1111608496046980967"},"published":{"$t":"2024-09-28T15:13:46.398-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2024-09-28T15:13:46.398-04:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"When the Abbasid Caliphate collapsed after the 120..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"When the Abbasid Caliphate collapsed after the 1200s did we see a migration of Egyptians back to Egypt, Arabians back to Arabia, Persians back to Persia, Levantines back to the Levant, etc?"},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/1111608496046980967"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/19346366\/2109236639366105204\/comments\/default\/1111608496046980967"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html?showComment=1727550826398#c1111608496046980967","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Anonymous"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/blank.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/akinokure.blogspot.com\/2024\/08\/judaism-as-third-way-non-aligned.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-2109236639366105204","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/19346366/posts/default/2109236639366105204","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1613196951"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"9\/28\/24, 3:13 PM"}]}]}});