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reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

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Might is Right

93, Many people are so far removed from violence that they have manifested themselves as the perfect victims of it.

I wonder what the average individual who hates the police and military would do if societies safety net suddenly disappeared? It’s curious how more conservative people glorify the Military. Perhaps because they are instinctively aware that the nice things they have come because they are taken from others.

You can see micro-cosmically in our major disasters what happens when people are removed from the aegis of their warriors. People die, they scream for help and sit on roof tops hoping the Tribe will come and rescue them. What if that Tribe never comes? What if someone else takes command?

The answer, when we get down to it is that people will do whatever the next armed band tells them to do. Or maybe they die bravely clutching at their freedom? They’re still dead though.

There is the fact that all people need to drink water, eat food and sleep in places that are warm and dry. Those necessities become harder and harder to find during times of crisis. The strongest groups with the greatest ability to generate might control those necessities.

There’s really no ifs ands or buts about it. No arguments that stand against it. If things degrade enough and there are things that people want they will do what they can to secure them. Many things can be lied for, traded for and stolen, but what if those methods are ineffective? What if you get caught?

If you can not generate might you will surely die or become subservient to someone else.

“But we are in America, the top nation!” and we are the top because of our enormous military and economic might. Things that are being gently poked, prodded and pushed aside to Globalist interests.

I’m sure the people in Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Syria and the Ukraine woke up most days going “Things will be ok. Things are stable.” then almost over night, they weren’t. No amount of prayers, hopes, dreams or hugs can conquer the idea that “Might = Right”. If you love yourself, your family, your tribe or your people…then you must be prepared to defend them and to -survive-. If you die in vain then so does your culture, beliefs and the identity you were manifesting on the earth.

“Strength is the first virtue. That is not a pleasant fact. Its distastefulness does not alter the truth that without strength to protect them, all other virtues are ephemeral, ultimately meaningless.” - J. Butchur 93 93/93

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“Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.” — Julius Evola

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Sculptures by Beth Cavener

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A Penn State researcher introduced pigs to joy-stick controlled video games, and in weeks they would begin to “beg to play video games. They beg to be the first ones out of their pens, then they trot up the ramp to play.”

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Central American Stingless Bees that have been cultivated by Mayans for thousands of years. The bees are regarded as pets and their hives hung in and around the home. Some hives have been recorded as lasting over 80 years, being passed down through generations.

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Excellence is never an accident. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives. Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Aristotle (via philosophybits)

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Some damn fool idealistic crusade.

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Illustrations by Rovina Cai

Australian artist Rovina Cai (featured previously) loves making illustrations that evoke a sense of intrigue; images that make you linger, hungry to know the story behind it. You can also find additional pieces on her Behance account , as well as a selection of giclée prints on her shop. 

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Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Jean-Paul Sartre, The Selected Essays (via fyp-philosophy)

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Every form of life [….] is marked not merely by adjustment to the environment, but by insurgence against the environment: it is both creature and creator, both the victim of fate and the master of destiny: it lives no less by domination than by acceptance.

Lewis Mumford / Technics & Civilisation (1932) / p.319 (via evokit-notes)

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Y'know, I’ve relearned a valuable lesson in the past year or so. After arguing with the left about guns, the right about trans rights, and both about modern combat aviation programs, I’ve realized that people in America often have opinions on things they quite literally know next to nothing about simply because they feel they’re required to have an opinion on them.

Going “well, I dunno, I guess don’t really have an opinion” *is* in fact still a valid option. Better to be humble and willing to consider facts or do research on something than to just regurgitate whatever your echo chamber says the party line is. It’ll reduce the frequency with which you end up sticking your neck out just for someone who actually knows what they’re talking about to smack you back down, at least.

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Tonylight - VIRGO [Music Video] by Piotr Sell

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a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else’s mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one’s own place and economy.

In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less and less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, and shares. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced or placeless citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers…

Thus, although we are not slaves in name, and cannot be carried to market and sold as somebody else’s legal chattels, we are free only within narrow limits. For all our talk about liberation and personal autonomy, there are few choices that we are free to make. What would be the point, for example, if a majority of our people decided to be self-employed?

The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.”

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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Wendell Berry

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Graphic - Scott Davidson

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Not Bad For a Human - Created by Chet Phillips

Aliens tribute print available for sale at Chet’s Etsy Shop.