Excerpt from Sacred Endings
Honoring shifting forms
by Markael Luterra on Aug 21
Read the Blog: https://dendroica.substack.com/p/sacred-endings
#Death #QualityOfLife #SelfCare #WesternCulture #LifeCycle #Aging
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"To be a white man all you have to be concerned about is to have money and possessions, and...then you start building fences around your house...and you start building fences around your states, and all this time you're building fences around yourself."
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stead of piggy backing off other folks' posts (and pissing everybody off) i guess i should just try to articulate cold
on hanson and all the attention she's getting, folks reevaluating, pegging her for potential prime minister etc
think it fair to ask how much of trumpism's about trump? folks look at the mess and the pattern they see is the party and the base, the democrats in disarray, and figure it's about trump, his personal appeal (as distinct from his 'agenda') and figure on his having a kind of messianic charisma
nothing new in this (re flyover country ect) but as with hanson i reckon it fair to lay it square at the feet of the failings of our norms and institutions in so far as what we've been promised (how we've been given to understand the substance of those norms and institutions) and what they've delivered in the round
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Rebellion Against the Rebels – Hungarian Conservative https://www.byteseu.com/1961881/ #1988 #1989 #BerlinWall #CommunistYouthLeague #FideszGovernment #FideszKDNP #HungarianElections2026 #Hungary #KISZ #Politics #rebellion #RegimeChange #TiszaParty #WesternCulture #WesternEurope
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Bunny Hop Into Spring!
It seems like we just shooed away the leprechauns of St. Paddy’s day, and now the Easter bunnies are already prancing across our doorsteps. Or at least the wild and wily kind. Bunnies are abound in my neighborhood, now that spring has sprung, and they are finding a buffet of fresh flowers to nosh on. While I go for my morning walk, just about everywhere I look there’s another little bunny nibbling on some grass, or sneaking under someone’s fence to get at their garden, or scurrying under the cover of a bush. Though the wild rabbits I saw in Ireland were huge, bigger than a cat! The adorable furry lumps of my local tromping grounds are much much smaller, no bigger than a guinea pig, these cute critters could be held in one hand, no problem.
And though in Western culture bunnies are seen as just cute and fluffy harbingers of spring, in Asian cultures they have a far more complex nature. In the zodiac, rabbits are the embodiment of kind gentleness and emotional intelligence. Though people born in the year of the rabbit are likely to be thoughtful and endearing friends, they aren’t the bravest of people and are unlikely to stick up for their friends or themselves. They struggle with balancing kindness with caution.
In Asian media like anime and manga, people that are depicted as bunny like are often bouncy, cheerful and sweet. There will almost always be a scene or two of their heads decorated with imagined or real rabbit ears. And in general, these people are very energetic and the main character might even become exhausted being around this character, but they are still well liked by everyone. On the flip side, these rabbit characters also often have a tragic past in which they still struggle with facing hard truths and defending themselves and other against bullies and injustices.
In the anime Fruits Basket, we meet Momiji, a cheerful, energetic, and a bit flippant half German boy of the Sohma family. Not surprisingly, he is also the rabbit zodiac animal of the family. Though when he is first introduced in the story, it appears that Momiji is just a happy, sweet, and kind boy, as the story progresses it becomes clear that he has experience a great deal of grief and heartache in his life.
In Momiji’s backstory arc, we learn that his own mother was horrified that her child was part of the family’s zodiac curse, and even tried to hurt herself she was so traumatized. In the end it was deemed better if she just forgot that Momiji even existed. And so his own mother chose to erase him from her mind. As kind as Momiji is, he still loves his family, even his mother, and instead chooses to put a smile on his face, and for much of the story turns away from the painful family relationships.
P.S. Hey! I know this is kind of a short post for me, but after my trip I’m kind of swamped at work, so this was all I could whip up in my scant free time. Sorry! I’ll try to write more in future posts!
#anime #asianCulture #bunnies #fruitsBasket #HappyEaster #Japan #JapaneseCulture #manga #momiji #paranormalAnime #rabbits #spring #westernCulture -
“I came to the West because I wanted the West, not a multicultural bazaar”—UnHerd U.S. Editor Sohrab Ahmari
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Does self-control equal happiness and success? A new study flips the idea on its head.
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Want to understand the history of European culture? Start with the Minoans, not the Ancient Greeks.
From art to architecture, this pioneering bronze age civilisation had a huge influence on other western cultures.
#Europe #Minoans #Culture #BronzeAge #Civilisation #Minoan #History #Greece #Crete #Archaeology #Art #Architecture #WesternCulture
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I wrote 35 yrs ago our mother Earth is dying & our species & #Westernculture... & #speciesnarcissism are responsible. Now ppl across the US & the planet are paying the price while T diverts #FEMA funds to building #concentrationcamps. #climatechange bit.ly/3Tz8mQW
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Top ten posts in June 2025
https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/07/01/top-ten-posts-in-june-2025/
#angelDiaries #article #bestPosts #bestTen #blood #book #BrianPCopenhaver #CindyBarukhMilstein #cinema #cryptic #empodiment #erikDavis #esotericSecrets #esotericism #GarryJShaw #GeorgiaVanRaalte #GrahamStJohn #initiation #JeanSeznac #JohnCoulthart #JohnMalkovich #Journal #June2025 #MaggieMayhem #magic #manuscripts #menstruationMagic #Monad #movie #mysterious #paganGods #PatrickLeppetit #poster #resistance #ritual #RobertSchwentke #RolloAhmed #sacred #secretSocieties #Seneca #summary #summaryOfTheMonth #Surrealism #survival #TerenceMcKenna #topPosts #topTen #Voynich #westernCulture #zine
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AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/04/ai-suggestions-make-writing-more-generic-western
#HackerNews #AIwriting #GenericContent #WesternCulture #AIethics #WritingTrends
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Banksy on Capitalism: Challenging Inequality and Consumerism Through Art (11 Artworks)
Banksy: Art Against Capitalism and Consumerism Through his provocative and inspiring works, Banksy exposes the darker sides of capitalism and consumerism. Pieces like Fat Tourist and Rickshaw, Shop Until You Drop, and Sale Ends Today reveal how privilege, exploitation, and materialism shape modern society. By blending wit and stark imagery, Banksy challenges us to question the values driving Western culture. More: 24 artworks by Banksy: Who Is The Visionary of Street Art 1 Banksy’s […]https://streetartutopia.com/2024/11/18/banksy-on-capitalism/
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#Federal #Report #Outlines #Abuses at #Native #BoardingSchools, #Calls for #Remedies.
#NativeAmerican #children were taken from #homes, #parents, and #communities to #boardingschools to “#assimilate them into #WesternCulture,” and "#Religion," a strategy of #cultural #genocide.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #IndigenousPeople #History #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #EmptyThePews
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#culture #empire #affect #education #ClimateChange #history #psychology #indigenous #WesternCulture #industrialization #Discipline #Punish
what do y'all think?:
"from the beginning of the industrial age, we have taken the whole of humanity on a big journey away from 'the natural world'... in pursuit of progress. ...in pursuit of our rational superiority to the world, and animals, and things like that.
we're beginning to review that now, and we're beginning to see the costs of that.
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the whole of humanity has been busy putting up a sort of false self [of rationality] over what i call "the inner indigenous" - that "natural" self that's got a lot of spontanaeity, emotions. it's raw and sexual and things like that... we've been coating that with rationality and with progress.
the british system of boarding school is a perfect element at developing that kind of estranged self, which functions terribly well in other institutions - like in politics, in the army, in church, in business, in building empire. and of course that was the original motivation [behind developing the schools] - to develop administrators of the british empire.
but take it out of that environment and into the one where the natural self is more apparent - in the family - and it functions very badly, in general. so the breakdown of that self is liable to be in the family.
and [recovering] is not just an internal sort of psycho-spiritual adventure, it also means you have to come home to relationship, to being a social being, to being a family being, to being a body... and in that journey, that's where the true wisdom is to be had. you can take your refined mental appartus and use that to help you on that journey...and that's great." - nick duffell
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPHxGYAqbuU
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i think this is a very interesting line of reasoning!
i disagree with his contention that "the whole of humanity" is doing this, but that's another thing you'll find in mainstream western culture - a universalizing drive that takes characteristics of western culture & society, and treats them as if they apply to all people everywhere. he's a brit, i forgive him this error.
i don't know about "inner indigenous"...but i get what he's saying about a more "animal" self that gets turned into a "civilization-brain" self through an institutional education process.
the civilization-brain self does well in institutions (and so you see it rise to the top of things like international negotiations on climate change), but it has little connection to the "living" or "animal" self - which is what the fight over climate change is all about! like, valuing the actual living world! not some abstract version of it, but the actual land and people and animals!
i like his analysis because it ties together separation from self, separation from nature, separation from other people (emotionally), and empire, boarding schools, institutions of all kinds, industrialization (historically), and the global ecological catastrophe we're all a part of.
and i like that he recommends that people (especially gentlemen, who are more likely to have been disciplined out of their "animal" selves, imo) reconnect with other people and go on their own "psycho-spiritual" journey to discover whether that "civilization-brain self" is really all there is to life.
and i agree that if one hasn't reconnected to their own animal self, and hasn't reconnected with actual people and the actual land, it's going to be very hard to get in "good relation" to the planet (and solve the exploitation of nature that is like, at the root of climate change. if people lived in balance with the land (ie, in 'right relation'), we wouldn't have biodiversity loss, we wouldn't have climate change...because you'd be valuing the land and bringing it back to life, instead of exploiting it.
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CW: On Grief
A short burst of words on how, in Western culture, we very often censor ourselves when we learn of or are present at the death of a loved one.
Even at this most vulnerable, painful time, restraint kicks in and a voice tells us not to inflict the most raw version of our distress on others.The visceral grief that is openly displayed and experienced communally in other cultures happens behind tightly closed doors for us, if it happens at all!
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[EN] We are at a crossroads in history and the Western culture is being questioned recently due to its selective approach. There needs to be a redefinition of the value system adopted and to explain what each value means explicitly in order for this culture to avoid the downward path which it has set for itself.
#westernculture
#cultureevolution
#superiority
#selectivity
#valuesystemhttps://www.tiktok.com/@hayan.harb/video/7303603699434130721
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[EN] There is a need to reassess the values that we try to abide by in our society. Some values are proving to be useless when they are accompanied by superiority and selectivity. Societies have a responsibility to redefine the pillars that they build their cultures on and especially the Western Culture.
#valuesystem
#superiority
#westernculturehttps://www.tiktok.com/@hayan.harb/video/7302501805835980064
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An interesting thing #WesternCulture has, that might be more insidious than it might seem at first glance, is how we put our individuality above all else.
There's too many examples of this to count, but it even gets into progressive fiction like Star Trek, with the borg.
What is the problem with this, you might ask? Well, it teaches us from the moment we are born that our individuality is above all else, even the group.
It's not surprising that we now have anti-maskers and stuff like that.
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there’s something quite dreadful, but unsurprising, about this story
a complete metaphor for … oh, I’ll say #ConstiutionalMonarchy but I really want to say #WesternCulture