“We all have to die some time, and it may be better to die fighting for survival, or for a cause, than to live a long but empty and purposeless life.”
— Kaczynski
— Kaczynski
Forwarded from The Warrior Philosophers
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THE ILIAD, HOMERIC GREECE & PAGAN MORALITY (Feat. @HeroicIdeal)
The Ark and I discuss the Iliad, whether Achilles or Hector is the Hero, Paganism, Homeric morality, Tragedy, the Heroic Ideal as well as the Sublime, a critique of Nietzsche and a prophecy for the Future.
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"I want to live so that I can look back afterwards & say to myself life was worthwhile, it had some meaning & purpose. If I stumble & fall I want to get up and go forward again, not brood over failure, as so many do... Fool or no fool, that's how I mean to live my life."
Arishima
Arishima
/THE HEROIC STATE/
"The State, or unmorality organised, is from within — the police, the penal code, status, commerce, and the family; and from without, the will to war, to power, to conquest and revenge. A multitude will do things an individual will not, because of the division of responsibility, of command and execution; because the virtues of obedience, duty, patriotism, and local sentiment are all introduced; because feelings of pride, severity, strength, hate, and revenge — in short, all typical traits are upheld, and these are characteristics utterly alien to the herd-man."
— Nietzsche, Will to Power
"The State, or unmorality organised, is from within — the police, the penal code, status, commerce, and the family; and from without, the will to war, to power, to conquest and revenge. A multitude will do things an individual will not, because of the division of responsibility, of command and execution; because the virtues of obedience, duty, patriotism, and local sentiment are all introduced; because feelings of pride, severity, strength, hate, and revenge — in short, all typical traits are upheld, and these are characteristics utterly alien to the herd-man."
— Nietzsche, Will to Power
“No man of exalted gifts is pleased with that which is low and mean; the vision of great achievement summons him and uplifts him.”
— Seneca
— Seneca
"I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me."
— Joshua Graham
— Joshua Graham
The success of the team rests with the leader.
There are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
JOCKO
There are no bad teams, only bad leaders.
JOCKO
"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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“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