I agree. There was a concerted effort by certain English politicians ( Lord Gray) to provoke a war with Germany. Other groups did their part too. Guess who always suffers the most, especially when there exists military conscription.
I urge reading his book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourses_on_Livy. A more comprehensive guide to his political thought than the Prince. I also read a dissident Polish intellectual in Lubyanka who wrote on Machiavelli. I have his essay somewhere 😀
Machiavelli described the way rulers must think and act, whether they like it or not. Confucianism was a bit more idealistic, but bribery made it equal. Those in power, until now, had to take care for their subjects in order to have someone to rule over. Today's technocrats apparently want to turn humans into cyborg slaves and transfer the effort to an AI that keeps track of everything in the world, based on functionality. In a functionalist system, there is no need for good and evil, just like there is no need for them in Machiavelli or in Confucius. Nil novi sub sole...
Technocrats also need 'customers', almost all technocrats are salesmen first, that's how they got rich in the first place;
I think its wrong to blame the people who make the 'weapons' (AI), its sort of like blaming the gun manufacturing company/owners from crimes that GOV-MIL do with the weapons;
...
Confucius is not applicable in the west; Machiavelli tried to teach his fellow politicians "How to stay in power"
In purity I would suggest Buddhism;
My preference is Emma Goldman "Anarchism is Communalism in its purest form", like the Kibbutz with no gov thugs to be found;
Biblio what think ye of Discourses on Livy? And yes of course inventing a weapon or manufacturing a weapon is a merchant of death. The Arms of Krupp once upon a time, or Mr. Colt. :)
ok, as a kid I loved Machiavelli read most of his stuff in high-school on my own, about the same time I discovered Nietzsche
I dual majored in physics & philosopy
What can be said? Machiavelli loved Italy, and wanted to train his students in the art of securing and keeping power in government, without all the fuck woke-cuck bullshit;
What can be said?
...
Well you know what we used to say about mr-colt??
"There have always been big bad men, and weak little women, and mr-colt made them BOTH even-steven"
I'm a gunsite life family member, gunsite is a place in Arizona that used to teach everybody how to shoot a gun, even the delta-force and US-NAVY seals would go there to train and learn;
Our mentor & leader was Jeff-Cooper who wrote dozens of books, involved in CIA for his entire life, and my favorite quote of his was "Owning a gun no more makes you a gun-fighter, than owning a guitar makes you jimmy-hendrix, or eric-clapton"
The problem with the entire gun, and/or weapon subject is that most people are compete fucking idiots on the subject; They think that a gun turns anybody into anney-oakley, the fact is like all martial-arts it takes a decade of concentration daily training to perfect your skills; Just like the fucking GUITAR;
...
Give me time to ponder the 'livy' & 'krupp' topics, but like I said the entire "Merchant of Death" is MSM liberal cuck-woke narrative in itself.
I did not know this about Ortega and a Modernist literary magazine. The magazine is published by the Jose Ortega y Gasset Foundation based in Madrid on a monthly basis now.
I agree on self defense. This is fundamental. By now of course removing weapons is an absurdity due to low trust. Heinlein I think observed an armed society was a polite society but in the ghetto goddamn it just ain't so. Now the entire country is ghettoizing quick quick. Making good money selling military equipment is not self defense. The bloated Defense budget is criminal and graft.
Don't know really how to add a comment on "Arms of Krupp"
I'm totally against these legacy assholes familys, whether it be clinton, trump, or Gates, or Musk, or rhodes, or deBeers, or Rockefellers or Rothschilds; or even house of saud
So a family with obvious GOVERNMENT connections supplied weapons of "WAR" to Governments for 300+ years; Sounds like real fucking satanic assholes to little bilbo;
Yes, and Nobel invented dynamite that led the most massive killing in all human history combined, yet he went on to endow his wealth to the "NOBEL PRIZE" and now at the same level as the baby-jeebuz himself;
"Merchant of Death" is snowflake shit; We use knives for cooking, people used to use arms for defending their homes and hunting;
Guns don't kill, knives don't kill assholes, morons, and satanic fuckheads with badges in uniforms kill;
Just like nitro-glycerine from NOBEL, it can also be used in heart-attacks, all has a yin and a yang;
Well said (or quoted?). A perfect description of our current miseries.
All our modern troubles come from WW1. The problems before can be seen in Napoleonic wars and the rise of England and the Congress of Vienna.
I agree. There was a concerted effort by certain English politicians ( Lord Gray) to provoke a war with Germany. Other groups did their part too. Guess who always suffers the most, especially when there exists military conscription.
I urge reading his book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourses_on_Livy. A more comprehensive guide to his political thought than the Prince. I also read a dissident Polish intellectual in Lubyanka who wrote on Machiavelli. I have his essay somewhere 😀
"The essence of government: Beating, killing, and imprisoning" - von mises
Machiavelli described the way rulers must think and act, whether they like it or not. Confucianism was a bit more idealistic, but bribery made it equal. Those in power, until now, had to take care for their subjects in order to have someone to rule over. Today's technocrats apparently want to turn humans into cyborg slaves and transfer the effort to an AI that keeps track of everything in the world, based on functionality. In a functionalist system, there is no need for good and evil, just like there is no need for them in Machiavelli or in Confucius. Nil novi sub sole...
Technocrats also need 'customers', almost all technocrats are salesmen first, that's how they got rich in the first place;
I think its wrong to blame the people who make the 'weapons' (AI), its sort of like blaming the gun manufacturing company/owners from crimes that GOV-MIL do with the weapons;
...
Confucius is not applicable in the west; Machiavelli tried to teach his fellow politicians "How to stay in power"
In purity I would suggest Buddhism;
My preference is Emma Goldman "Anarchism is Communalism in its purest form", like the Kibbutz with no gov thugs to be found;
Biblio what think ye of Discourses on Livy? And yes of course inventing a weapon or manufacturing a weapon is a merchant of death. The Arms of Krupp once upon a time, or Mr. Colt. :)
'livy'
ok, as a kid I loved Machiavelli read most of his stuff in high-school on my own, about the same time I discovered Nietzsche
I dual majored in physics & philosopy
What can be said? Machiavelli loved Italy, and wanted to train his students in the art of securing and keeping power in government, without all the fuck woke-cuck bullshit;
What can be said?
...
Well you know what we used to say about mr-colt??
"There have always been big bad men, and weak little women, and mr-colt made them BOTH even-steven"
I'm a gunsite life family member, gunsite is a place in Arizona that used to teach everybody how to shoot a gun, even the delta-force and US-NAVY seals would go there to train and learn;
Our mentor & leader was Jeff-Cooper who wrote dozens of books, involved in CIA for his entire life, and my favorite quote of his was "Owning a gun no more makes you a gun-fighter, than owning a guitar makes you jimmy-hendrix, or eric-clapton"
The problem with the entire gun, and/or weapon subject is that most people are compete fucking idiots on the subject; They think that a gun turns anybody into anney-oakley, the fact is like all martial-arts it takes a decade of concentration daily training to perfect your skills; Just like the fucking GUITAR;
...
Give me time to ponder the 'livy' & 'krupp' topics, but like I said the entire "Merchant of Death" is MSM liberal cuck-woke narrative in itself.
https://bilbobitch.substack.com/p/make-a-wish-foundation
The man the books, the "FATHER OF MODERN COMBAT PISTOL", IPSC and all the variants world-wide;
Jeff Cooper the last word on "Gun-Fighting" also a respected scholar, and well read philosopher.
More GREAT's in combat philosophy is of course
"On War", Carl von Clausewitz
Ortega y Gasset founded "Revista de Occidente",
Jeff Cooper heavily bases all his life philosophy on these two men;
I did not know this about Ortega and a Modernist literary magazine. The magazine is published by the Jose Ortega y Gasset Foundation based in Madrid on a monthly basis now.
I agree on self defense. This is fundamental. By now of course removing weapons is an absurdity due to low trust. Heinlein I think observed an armed society was a polite society but in the ghetto goddamn it just ain't so. Now the entire country is ghettoizing quick quick. Making good money selling military equipment is not self defense. The bloated Defense budget is criminal and graft.
Don't know really how to add a comment on "Arms of Krupp"
I'm totally against these legacy assholes familys, whether it be clinton, trump, or Gates, or Musk, or rhodes, or deBeers, or Rockefellers or Rothschilds; or even house of saud
So a family with obvious GOVERNMENT connections supplied weapons of "WAR" to Governments for 300+ years; Sounds like real fucking satanic assholes to little bilbo;
Yes, and Nobel invented dynamite that led the most massive killing in all human history combined, yet he went on to endow his wealth to the "NOBEL PRIZE" and now at the same level as the baby-jeebuz himself;
"Merchant of Death" is snowflake shit; We use knives for cooking, people used to use arms for defending their homes and hunting;
Guns don't kill, knives don't kill assholes, morons, and satanic fuckheads with badges in uniforms kill;
Just like nitro-glycerine from NOBEL, it can also be used in heart-attacks, all has a yin and a yang;
...our Hamlet of Europe is watching millions of ghosts.
But he is an intellectual Hamlet, meditating on the life
and death of truths; for ghosts, he has all the subjects of our
controversies; for remorse, all the titles of our fame. He is
bowed under the weight of all the discoveries and varieties of
knowledge, incapable of resuming this endless activity; he
broods on the tedium of rehearsing the past and the folly of
always trying to innovate. He staggers between two abysses for two dangers never cease threatening the world: order and disorder.
Every skull he picks up is an illustrious skull. Whose was
it?* This one was Lionardo. He invented the flying man, but
the flying man has not exactly served his inventor's purposes.
We know that, mounted on his great swan (il grande uccello
sopra del dosso del suo magnio cecero) he has other tasks in our day
than fetching snow from the mountain peaks during the hot
season to scatter it on the streets of towns. And that other skull
was Leibnitz, who dreamed of universal peace. And this one
was Kant . .. and Kant begat Hegel, and Hegel begat Marx, and
Marx begat ... .
Hamlet hardly knows what to make of so many skulls.
But suppose he forgets them! Will he still be himself? ... His
terribly lucid mind contemplates the passage from war to
peace: darker, more dangerous than the passage from peace
to war; all peoples are troubled by it .... "What about Me,"
. he says, "what is to become of Me, the European intellect? ..
And what is peace? ... Peace is perhaps that state of things in
which the natural hostility between men is manifested in creation,
rather than destruction as in war.