"Death is better than slavery, say the old Frisian peasants. Reverse this aphorism and you have the formula of all late civilizations."
— Spengler, 'The Decline of the West'
— Spengler, 'The Decline of the West'
"The task is, to bring to light that which we must always love and revere and of which no later knowledge can rob us: the great man."
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Leaders must own every mistake, every failure, and every shortfall.
During the debrief after a mission, good leaders take ownership of failures, seek guidance on how to improve, and figure out how to overcome challenges in the future.
JOCKO
During the debrief after a mission, good leaders take ownership of failures, seek guidance on how to improve, and figure out how to overcome challenges in the future.
JOCKO
Forwarded from The Warrior Philosophers
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LEFTIST NIETZSCHEANS (Feat. ESSENTIAL SALTS @untimelyreflections)
Keegan and I discuss Leftist Nietzscheans covering the works of Foucault, Deleuze, and others, critiqued Marxism and conversed on Aesthetics as morality, then on Nick Land, AI and Accelerationism.
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Keegan’s links -
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“We no longer believe in the power of reason over life. We feel that it is life which dominates reason.”
— Spengler, The Decline of the West
— Spengler, The Decline of the West
True discipline demands habitual but reasoned obedience to command, an obedience that preserves initiative and functions unfalteringly, even in the absence of the commander.
JOCKO
JOCKO
“Those who are careless of accuracy in small things soon begin to neglect the most important.”
— Plutarch
— Plutarch
“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
— Plato, The Republic
— Plato, The Republic