It feels better for a tech CEO to blame Rome’s fall on demographics and birth rates than on a rotting belief system or elite philosophy, because the second explanation hits too close to home for modern America and is infinitely harder to solve for an engineer. This is what Curtis
Willem de Witte is a philosopher at a think tank funded by old European billionaire family. He comes over to talk about how Kate is captured by demonic forces and to make an erotic confession. We talk about Immanuel Kant, Nietzsche, Nick Land, Elon Musk and the European Garden.
The puritan right is awkwardly emerging in the Netherlands, predictably imitating the United States while lagging miles behind. Meanwhile, I’ve just written a letter to the Dutch state art fund—of which I’m chauvinistically proud—featuring photos of my wife breastfeeding, asking
My mother teaches at a regular school.
They placed her in front of a group of teenagers who are retarded from inbreeding. They have never attended school and don’t speak a word of Dutch or English. She is told to spend a few hours with them. “Just fill the time somehow.”
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A woman was in my studio arguing that Augustine’s idea of the secular has been wrongly framed, reinterpreted after World War II in a way that distorts his theology, to make it serve the liberal order. Christians are everywhere. @providenceluvr
Botticelli wasn’t right-wing. His life shows a swing from the hedonistic optimism of Renaissance humanism toward mystical, puritan disillusionment. This tension defines the strange modernity of his art.
I’m proud to announce unanimous approval from our extremely left-wing public
Let’s reconcile Christians with the Stink! We talk about the crisis of passion, Bronze Age Pervert, Nietzsche, Erika Kirk, Roger Scruton, and Gianlorenzo Bernini. Watch the 14-minute video.
The anger of right-wing people who want Mozart to stand as a monument carved in stone—a sign of eternal superiority—comes from an inkling that, if they ever visited China or were themselves Chinese, they would be overwhelmed by the depth of that civilization. The euphoria and
Sinterklaas kwam aan onder begeleiding van hele luide, harde, slechte muziek in een auto. Er was geen paard. Er was geen respect. Er was geen stilte. Het was niet spannend. Er waren geen enge zwarte pieten. Het offer dat is gemaakt met zwarte piet, niemand heeft daar dieper over