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Like Zeus who rescued his Olympian siblings to overthrow the old decadent order of his Father, Cronus, the new aristocrats must rise and defeat the modern oppressive order and create a renaissance of heroic power and light. Passage from my upcoming book, 'Aristocratic Spirit':
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Some knowledge can't be "dumbed down."
There is an entry bar.
Either people are capable of rising to meet it on its own terms, or they aren't worthy of learning it in the first place.
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“Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer. Put your principles into practice —now.”
— Epictetus
ALT Heracles by Guercino
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If you're truly putting yourself out there and trying to change your life, only two things can happen. Either you take the risk and win, or you take the risk and almost win. But you never lose
Worst case scenario you come up short of whatever you envisioned in your head, but wherever you end up landing will always still be further than wherever you would've been had you not tried at all
As long as you're in motion, failure is literally not within the realm of possibility. It's an outcome that's only reserved for the stationary. The bolder the action, the greater the safety net you ironically create for yourself
"Now it will not even cross your mind, should you happen to see a great and beautiful house (even though you could not see its owner), that it was built for mice and weasels, will it? Then if you were to consider a world so lavishly adorned, such great variety and beauty of heavenly things, such great power and size of the sea and lands to be your dwelling, and not that of the immortal gods, would you not clearly seem to be insane?"
-Cicero, On the Nature of the gods.
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“You must believe you are special - then go so hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. Wage a daily war against the ordinary outcome until the belief you invented from nothing, alone in a room, has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.”
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Yes, man is made the architect of his own destiny; he himself has been the cause of the successes or reverses of his own fortune; and if, on a review of all the pains with which he has tormented his own life, he finds reason to weep over his own weakness or imprudence, yet, considering the beginnings from which he set out, and the height attained, he has, perhaps, still reason to presume on his strength, and to pride himself on his genius.
--Constantin-François de Volney, "The Ruins"
Vitality is best described as a deep wellspring of energetic optimism- it's an almost irrational (but intuitive to the vitalistic individual) lasting impulse to employ the will towards powerful purpose, that satisfies the soul and expands itself. Beauty, sex, love, enterprise- all examples.
