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  1. Illumination in dark times
    A genealogy of modern Western selfhood and a post-Western world

    "Smith ... outlines a genealogy of modern Western selfhood: a radically individual, hypermasculine character that was formed during the rapid nineteenth-century expansion of the white man’s world. “Bold, conquering, and altogether assertive,” it was “dedicated to action,” hostile to reflection, indifferent to community and the environment, and guilty of possessing, Smith writes, an “undeveloped heart,” a term borrowed from E. M. Forster’s assessment of the British elite." "

    " “We must alter our very relations with the world around us.” This means giving up the exalted and exaggerated idea of the West that boosts a masculinist self-image but severely constricts thought and feeling. “We should welcome our era’s uncertainties,...the not-knowing of how the post-Western story will come out.” Smith’s final warning—that “we will not survive the Western notion of the individual much longer”—should resonate today, as nineteenth-century individualism reasserts itself in the degraded Nietzscheanism of Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller." >>

    * Mishra, P. (2026, April). "The Authority of Thought". Harper's Magazine.
    harpers.org/archive/2026/04/th

    * Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World by Patrick Smith. 2010 >>
    penguinrandomhouse.com/books/1
    #TheWest #WhiteSupremacy #masculinity #ImpulseControl #EthnoNationalism #WesternCivilization #AngloAmerican #parochialism #individualism #subjectivity #SettlerSociety #Culture #RacialInequality #war #EastWest #PostWesternWorld #DarkTimes #illumination #narrative #environment

    Image: Double Bay War Memorial, Steyne Park, Sydney

  2. We’ll keep trying to go for some timely comedic takes in these dark dark domestic times. I will say it’s heartening to know most of the rest of #WesternCivilization is looking at what’s happening here ,putting down the cheese and crackers… and heading for the door. No thanks seems to be the message. They’re gonna keep #Democracy going in the #EU even if the lights go out here. That is the most heartening thing to have seen in recent weeks. Also that #BillyCobham #TimeMachine video. Fresh air

  3. #Christian #Morality Is a #LIE

    youtube.com/watch?v=BCHInILUxF
    thekaysemeloneshow.com/p/016-c

    "We often hear that #WesternCivilization was built upon #Christianmorality, but is that actually a good thing? In fact, is that actually a real thing? I would argue that no, Christian morality is not as set-in-stone as the #religious leaders in power would like their everyday #congregation members to believe."

  4. "#Christian Morality" Is Bullsh*t!

    youtube.com/watch?v=gRdr7mfQ5N

    #christianvalues #morality #westerncivilization

    What do people really mean when they talk about “Christian morality”? From the myth that #Christianity invented Western morality to the violent, #patriarchal history it conveniently forgets, we need to stop pretending that #organizedreligion owns the #moralhighground.

  5. "#Christian Morality" Is Bullsh*t!

    youtube.com/watch?v=gRdr7mfQ5N

    #christianvalues #morality #westerncivilization

    What do people really mean when they talk about “Christian morality”? From the myth that #Christianity invented Western morality to the violent, #patriarchal history it conveniently forgets, we need to stop pretending that #organizedreligion owns the #moralhighground.

  6. "#Christian Morality" Is Bullsh*t!

    youtube.com/watch?v=gRdr7mfQ5N

    #christianvalues #morality #westerncivilization

    What do people really mean when they talk about “Christian morality”? From the myth that #Christianity invented Western morality to the violent, #patriarchal history it conveniently forgets, we need to stop pretending that #organizedreligion owns the #moralhighground.

  7. "#Christian Morality" Is Bullsh*t!

    youtube.com/watch?v=gRdr7mfQ5N

    #christianvalues #morality #westerncivilization

    What do people really mean when they talk about “Christian morality”? From the myth that #Christianity invented Western morality to the violent, #patriarchal history it conveniently forgets, we need to stop pretending that #organizedreligion owns the #moralhighground.

  8. "#Christian Morality" Is Bullsh*t!

    youtube.com/watch?v=gRdr7mfQ5N

    #christianvalues #morality #westerncivilization

    What do people really mean when they talk about “Christian morality”? From the myth that #Christianity invented Western morality to the violent, #patriarchal history it conveniently forgets, we need to stop pretending that #organizedreligion owns the #moralhighground.

  9. "For All We Know" by Mike Fiorito (@mike3fio) is a thought-provoking novel exploring life's big questions through a young protagonist navigating a chaotic "World of Wonder." The book blends music, psychedelics, and existential themes, encouraging readers to reflect on reality and consciousness.
    Full review: goodreads.com/book/show/204866

    #ForAllWeKnow #MikeFiorito #BookReview #Goodreads #ThoughtProvoking #Consciousness #Philosophy #BookRecommendation #WesternCivilization #RealityAndWonder #UFO #Psychedelics
    #authorinstagram #UAP #phenomenon

  10. "For All We Know" by Mike Fiorito (@mike3fio) is a thought-provoking novel exploring life's big questions through a young protagonist navigating a chaotic "World of Wonder." The book blends music, psychedelics, and existential themes, encouraging readers to reflect on reality and consciousness.
    Full review: goodreads.com/book/show/204866

    #ForAllWeKnow #MikeFiorito #BookReview #Goodreads #ThoughtProvoking #Consciousness #Philosophy #BookRecommendation #WesternCivilization #RealityAndWonder #UFO #Psychedelics
    #authorinstagram #UAP #phenomenon

  11. "For All We Know" by Mike Fiorito (@mike3fio) is a thought-provoking novel exploring life's big questions through a young protagonist navigating a chaotic "World of Wonder." The book blends music, psychedelics, and existential themes, encouraging readers to reflect on reality and consciousness.
    Full review: goodreads.com/book/show/204866

    #ForAllWeKnow #MikeFiorito #BookReview #Goodreads #ThoughtProvoking #Consciousness #Philosophy #BookRecommendation #WesternCivilization #RealityAndWonder #UFO #Psychedelics
    #authorinstagram #UAP #phenomenon

  12. "For All We Know" by Mike Fiorito (@mike3fio) is a thought-provoking novel exploring life's big questions through a young protagonist navigating a chaotic "World of Wonder." The book blends music, psychedelics, and existential themes, encouraging readers to reflect on reality and consciousness.
    Full review: goodreads.com/book/show/204866

    #ForAllWeKnow #MikeFiorito #BookReview #Goodreads #ThoughtProvoking #Consciousness #Philosophy #BookRecommendation #WesternCivilization #RealityAndWonder #UFO #Psychedelics
    #authorinstagram #UAP #phenomenon

  13. Been called a hardened Jew hater today by an account that promotes #GenocideDenial around #Israel's killings and destruction in #Gaza.

    Surprise finding myself thrown in with Jewish #HolocaustSurvivors who call the slaughter in Gaza for what it is.

    But that's where Netanyahu has taken the state of Israel. smh
    cf Trump, Biden, Orban, Starmer, Johnson, Brexit, Putin, Morrison, Dutton, Luxon

    #WesternCivilization #EthicalBankruptcy #Principles #RealPolitik #HumanRights

  14. Thinking about the #AmericanExperiment and #WesternCivilization.

    It's produced some wonders. (See below.)
    And horrors and brutality beyond measure.
    The #USA was meant to be progressing to a #MorePerfectUnion.

    The #Marketing of #Spectacle by the #CorporateMedia has something entirely different to a more perfect union being cemented today.

    To what extent has the good stuff functioned to distract from the basic brutality of our civilzation?

    #RalphWilliams #Oresteia
    youtu.be/97C60exFH6A?si=YztiQE

  15. Some of the subjs are of mixed ethnicity…& insist they don’t embrace the #racist agenda of… #MAGA…, even if they keep hyping the #superiority of “#WesternCivilization.” Nevertheless, #Homegrown doesn’t fawn or flatter its subjs. We also see them participating in #violent *protests* & eventually, in the case of one named #ChristopherQuaglin, …the #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection. Premo himself…#films Quaglin from…the middle of the crush, as the mob tries to enter the #Capitol bldg.

    #Trump #Terrorism

  16. #ElonMusk quietly takes down post calling #MacKenzieScott a threat to civilization for giving billions away to #socialjustice causes
    #Musk rarely backs down, but this time even he appears to have felt he crossed the line by condemning her #charitable #donations.
    “‘Super #rich ex-wives who hate their former spouse’ should … be listed among ‘Reasons That #WesternCivilization Died,’” Musk wrote, in response to report that Scott had donated to charity $16.5B of her fortune fortune.com/2024/03/07/elon-mu