Warning, the quote below has bad language, the misspellings are the authors.
If you focus on them, you’re missing his point. @Aja_Cortes, a fitness bro on Twitter explained what he thinks the problem with conservatives is:
Conservatives lose because they have no sexual or creative energy
None.
Its an impotent movement
Nothing sexy, no Art because conservative "values" are whitebread LARPing & there is nothing to create artistry with
Even the name is peak Loserdom, no adventure, no badassery
The Left gets protests
they get LAID and fuck afterwards
They get hot and attractive people making statements
They actually CANCEL things and ruin people, they make things happen for what they believe in
Whats the "right" do?
"But we have principles!"
Fuckingg NOTHING.
The right had DECADES when they actually had cultural power
What did you do?
Build beautiful buildings?
Subsidize arts?
Do ANYTHING that could be considered cool?
Nope. Its a bunch of squares sucking the ghost dick of Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan
SQUARES
You seen the dudes that are Conservative "Youth" leaders?
Do any of them incline bench and look like they FUCK?
Hell no
Its a bunch of pencil necked dweebs
I know militant lesbians with more masculine energy and balls
Ancient philosophy was characterized by the philosopher’s burden to help individuals and city-states overcome their slavery to the passions through mental and physical exercises designed to strengthen the will’s resolve and aim it in the direction of the good.
To Philosophers like Musonius Rufus, Philo of Alexandria, Epicurus, or Clement of Alexandria, a spiritual exercise was some thought process, physical habit, or specific activity that was designed to aim the practitioner in the appropriate life direction, either by changing bad ideas, removing bad habits, or adding good habits.
Identity politics are a game that can probably only be eschewed by the people who are going to lose.
Pointing out that identity politics is unfair and unreasonable to the people who play/live by those rules just means that they automatically win.
An example of this would be expecting parent not to prefer their child over other children in parent teacher conferences or school administrative meetings. People side with the group they identify with and maybe they're obligated to do so (maybe not) absent violations of truth, goodness, and beauty. But it seems that many of the Americans who reject identity politics as tool for political power or ethical reasoning still watch various versions of sports and have deep emotional attachments to those teams. They also tend to show a lot of loyalty to their alma mater.
Epictetus, the former slave turned stoic philosopher, made an eccentric argument for God’s providence in the smallest of human affairs. He argues by reducing to absurdity, as far as he can manage, four the five following views:
There is no god.
There is a god who is unconcerned for the cosmos.
There is a god who cares for the heavenly sphere only.
There is a god who cares for the general affairs on earth, not the details.
There is a god who cares for the affairs of men.
“Concerning gods, there are first those who say there is no divinity. Secondly, that there is but he is lazy (inactive) and unconcerned; and he makes no plans concerning anything. Thirdly, there are those who say that he exists and makes plans, rather only for the great and heavenly things, but for those of earth, nothing. Fourthly, there are those who say he makes plans for things upon the earth and the things of humanity, but in general and not for each one. Fifthly, there are those like Odysseus and Socrates who say, “Whither I move, I escape not your notice.”
A great deal of "the literature" about ancient Sparta includes the citizens of that great city in the numbers of those ancient Greek perverts who practiced pederasty.
Paul Cartledge is among the many academicians who have accepted this myth:
One particularly striking instance of this displaced or surrogate fathering was the institution of ritualized pederasty. After the age of twelve, every Spartan teenager was expected to receive a young adult warrior as his lover – the technical Spartan term for the active senior partner was ‘inspirer’, while the junior partner was known as the ‘hearer’. The relationship was probably usually sexual, but sex was by no means the only or even always the major object. The pedagogic dimension is nicely brought out in the tale of a Spartan youth who made the mistake of crying out in pain during one of the regular brutally physical contests that punctuated progress through the Agoge.
Conservatives rarely conserve anything. This is well known.
What they like to do is make conservative cases for making society worse. For instance:
henever you find an article that begins with the title, “The Conservative Case” for or against something, lock your door, check your wallet, and grab your gun. You know what’s coming is an unadulterated sell-out of everything “conservatism” purports to hold dear.
Bruce Charlton comments on an atheist who didn't follow his folly far enough:
Dawkins is a good example of one who refused to follow his path of excess to the palace of wisdom; because he was not even aiming at wisdom; he refused to persist in his folly, hence he remained a fool rather than becoming wise.
Two examples. The book Unweaving the Rainbow (1998) was an exercise in distraction, a non sequitur in response to the century-plus of observations that If natural selection were indeed regarded the ultimate truth, Then art, poetry, morality, science (including natural selection) and much else are invalidated.
