"pestilence and famine and wars and earthquakes must be regarded as a remedy, as though to prune the insolence of the human race."

"pestilence and famine and wars and earthquakes must be regarded as a remedy, as though to prune the insolence of the human race." These prunings did come to the provinces, which were too drained of their resources to be able to meet them or to recuperate from them when they passed over. The evil days did come to all, bringing wars which the people now coupled with famine and pestilence as intolerable scourges, no longer seeking occasion for fighting as their ancestors had done, but shuddering when it was forced upon them; for they stood on the defensive, with no glory or booty to gain, and their ease and comfort were at stake. "If the peace of the world could corrupt great souls," wrote Longinus in the latter half of the third century, "much more does so the interminable war which now oppresses us, and especially the sentiments which direct the present age; for the love of money with which we are all contaminated and the love of pleasure lead us into slavery and overwhelm our lives, the one disease making us petty, the other vile."
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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >At Rome the utter idleness and vacancy of life, given up wholly to the chase after pleasure, is well depicted in the pages of Ammianus Marcellinus.... The delicacy and effeminacy of the city-bred men showed itself exteriorly in the use of fine raiment and ointments, in the shaving of the face and even the depilation of the whole body. At Carthage things were even worse. There and throughout Roman Africa, people were said to have all the vices in a superior degree. Many men became women in face, walk, and dress; and what Clement of Alexandria called "preposterous Venus" was practised openly. As for the women, matrons could not by their dress be distinguished from courtesans. Amou?; other things revived to-day, they dyed their hair yellow. In general, "luxury has deranged everything," a Christian Father complained : "men play the part of women, and women that of men, contrary to nature; women are at once wives and husbands; and their promiscuous lechery is a public institution."

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >the Roman soldiers under Gratian, at the end of the fourth century, discarded their cuirasses and helmets; and the heavy weapons of their ancestors, the short sword and the stout pilum, says Gibbon, "insensibly dropped from their feeble hands." At the same time the barbarians were increasing the weight of their armour, and even ordering it from the work-shops of the empire....

    >The Roman empire fell before the Germans in the north and the Saracens in the south, primarily because from being stronger than they it had become weaker, while its greater wealth and more favourable situation attracted them. It became weaker than they partly because the quality of its population had declined, while theirs was improving, and partly because the number of its population had decreased, while theirs was increasing. In one word, its breed was degenerating, while theirs was advancing.

    >to the only men who might have saved it, if such there were, it was not worth saving, and those men and women who benefited by it were incapable of saving it. Then all the Romans practically became equal again in subjection and poverty, and the natural inequality of the sexes re-appeared in a reign of violence.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >from being stronger

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale.
        -Mao

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          a human is the weapon already
          stronger was true then

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            https://i.imgur.com/MhHNaWE.jpg

            >from being stronger

            I don't see what you're trying to say here

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            https://i.imgur.com/MhHNaWE.jpg

            >from being stronger

            what's the point of the pic of the gun?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              its called the peacemaker. it freed the slaves and gave women equal rights. in a way it "freed" europe. the peacekiller.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                the south had revolvers too, natural rise and fall is all

                success leads to complacency, weakness, etc.

                hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times, it's just a cycle

                and yah, the West got super rich and powerful, now our women think they can do whatever they want. they think they don't need a man to protect them, they have police and the army (nevermind that the police and army are nearly all male). they think they don't need a man to provide, since they have corporations and stores that provide food (nevermind that these corporations and stores are almost all run by men), etc.

                what they don't understand is that the prosperity and safety are impermanent

                soon

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              God created man
              Sam Colt made them equal

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                men don't have equal aim, or equal courage, or equal awareness/strategy, or equal funds, or equal organization/numbers, etc.

                also, see

                the south had revolvers too, natural rise and fall is all

                success leads to complacency, weakness, etc.

                hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times, it's just a cycle

                and yah, the West got super rich and powerful, now our women think they can do whatever they want. they think they don't need a man to protect them, they have police and the army (nevermind that the police and army are nearly all male). they think they don't need a man to provide, since they have corporations and stores that provide food (nevermind that these corporations and stores are almost all run by men), etc.

                what they don't understand is that the prosperity and safety are impermanent

                soon

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                too fricking bad. men aren't equal, and the stupid get got. Simple as.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I wasn't complaining, it's all good. I'm just saying the quote is wrong. colt may make things more equal but true equality is elusive, except in life itself

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Hard times, then, are ahead.... The struggle for existence will again become sharp and bitter, and there will again be wars and rumours of wars. It will not then be safe for the lamb to lie down by the lion, when the lion is hungry. The strong will again rend, and the weak will need defence and protection. Class will contend with class, and nation with nation. Our women may weep at the prospect. Also our Mr. Doves and our Mr. Loves may tremble at it. But woe to that people which has not men that will stand up and fight without flinching. Those countries where the moral decay shall have gone deepest, where the proved stock shall have died out and given way to poor stock, where the greatest effeminisation of men shall have taken place (for the masculinisation of women will be no compensation), where the strong and the wise and the shrewd shall gain no more of wealth, power, and influence than the weak, silly, and incompetent, all being equal, - those will go to the wall. And when this fate shall have overtaken most of our western white men's countries, our cycle of civilisation will be completed.

    >First of all, we must not delude ourselves with the notion of the new era of peace. We should remember that it was the false prophets who cried "Peace, peace," where there was no peace. This is an often repeated cry raised by sloth and luxuriousness. Today it is a popular craze, fomented by women and plutocrats....Our Saracens are indeed whetting their bayonets beyond the sea of the setting sun. We, lapped in luxury, may seek peace, but it is not permitted us to have everything we want, and there shall be no peace, because others will not allow it. So far as can be seen ahead, for centuries yet, there will always be fighting nations. Abundant incentives will soon be coming to them, and pretexts will not be lacking. Then woe to those countries which are not prepared.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >War being still not only a possibility but a probability, and war on the most tremendous scale, and, when once started upon in earnest, in the most ferocious manner... it is most necessary for every nation that would remain one among the nations of the world, to see to it that there be no failure of its virility, and that the control of its affairs slip not out of the hands of its mentally and physically strong men. Hence especially two things with which we are now threatened we need with all our might to shun: socialism and feminism

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    watched AN a couple weeks back, you know you go through Brando or Martin Sheen's movie catalogs and there aren't many films like this....too artsy.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >watched AN a couple weeks back
      Now read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Then the Secret Sharer

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Too long, didnt read homie.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >t. lazy moron

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's bad poetry from a israeli sociopath, the usual effeminacy of /misc/.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        liar

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    bump

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      bump

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        bump

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    we live in interesting times

    shitty, but interesting

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      turn soon

      courage, faith

      >After a time of decay comes the turning point.... The old is discarded and the new is introduced.... Societies of people sharing the same views are formed.
      I Ching chapter 24

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    bamp

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      bump

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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