Message from @Eccles

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2019-08-26 11:48:45 UTC  

cease, sis - seize the sin

2019-08-26 11:49:23 UTC  

Them Germans and the Frenchies
Put on Pluders and wear stockings.
Antichristian love they proclaim
And carry their balls in the open.
Mugs in powders and fondants,
Lice in their wigs, claps in asses.

might be my favourite song to translate so far

2019-08-26 11:49:59 UTC  

Time for some edumacation

2019-08-26 11:51:24 UTC  

boomer alert

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/613767975614283832/615513624009506846/aa.png

2019-08-26 11:52:39 UTC  

Alright faggots

2019-08-26 11:52:45 UTC  

But what does it mean?

2019-08-26 11:56:11 UTC  

bruh, that linear history though

2019-08-26 11:56:32 UTC  

History is linear by definition

2019-08-26 11:56:51 UTC  

*multiple people are typing* 😂

2019-08-26 11:56:58 UTC  

idk

2019-08-26 11:57:04 UTC  

dont think about stuff like that very often

2019-08-26 11:58:07 UTC  

People argue history is cyclical because there are many elements of human society and behaviour that are

2019-08-26 11:58:15 UTC  

But I don't think history itself is cyclical

2019-08-26 11:58:47 UTC  

cyclical just means that it tends to move in patterns

2019-08-26 11:59:00 UTC  
2019-08-26 11:59:14 UTC  

Predictable, repeatable patterns is what it implies, June

2019-08-26 11:59:18 UTC  

Noone that says that thinks it's literally repeating itself

2019-08-26 11:59:54 UTC  

Nor am I arguing that

2019-08-26 12:00:08 UTC  

But they do predict all kinds of nonsense based on the notion that "history repeats itself"

2019-08-26 12:00:28 UTC  

a concept rooted in a cyclical notion of history would be asabiyyah for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asabiyyah#Overview

2019-08-26 12:00:30 UTC  

I would imagine this is what the compass test AA came up with was testing

2019-08-26 12:04:40 UTC  

similar to the ideas of people like oswald spengler

2019-08-26 12:05:11 UTC  

who posited that civilizations are like superorganisms that go through certain phases of life just as organisms do

2019-08-26 12:06:22 UTC  

I've seen many such ideas before and had similar myself without prior prompting

2019-08-26 12:06:38 UTC  

They don't have much in the way of predictive power though

2019-08-26 12:10:21 UTC  

i dunno

2019-08-26 12:10:42 UTC  

spengler seemed to think that the west would enter into a phase of pre-death emergency in the 21st century

2019-08-26 12:10:49 UTC  

based off of his theories

2019-08-26 12:11:00 UTC  

Society and Civilisation isn't something that can be modelled easily, especially since it isn't a tangible thing in itself - it is the sum totality of all the other actors that are part of it

2019-08-26 12:11:13 UTC  

Everyone predicts catastrophe, it's what sells copies

2019-08-26 12:13:02 UTC  

the timing seems quite prescient, at least, and was rooted in patterns observed in historical civilizations

2019-08-26 12:15:43 UTC  

The only thing that could have been predicted with would make any sense is the set of issues were's now having as a result of global capitalism - the end game of capitalism and it's inevitable collapse

2019-08-26 12:15:47 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/613767975614283832/615519761517772810/b72a47e27bf6ec3d238ab638d01fc162.png

2019-08-26 12:16:46 UTC  

that is part of his model, in the sense that the 19th-21st centuries represented the ascendance of money politics, plutocracy, mirroring for example the two centuries preceding caesar in rome

2019-08-26 12:18:22 UTC  

So all we need now is someone to conquer Mars and his protege to become the emperor of mankind <:thinkgon:560211224923734026>

2019-08-26 12:20:48 UTC  

mars the red planet is already secretly ruled by cyborg stalin, the red tsar of space, silly goose

2019-08-26 12:21:41 UTC  

the soviet union didn't actually fight in ww2, their population losses came from soviet mars colonists

2019-08-26 12:23:09 UTC  

ye

2019-08-26 12:23:14 UTC  

smh basic histry