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promethean75 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:36 pmClosed the window and can't remember to what and where i was posting.

Romanticism is like Ideological ghosting. When your model isn't workable anymore but the fantasy of it remains as a kind of mental construct that allows u to condemn the present circumstances as teleologically wrong, as a mistake, as a detour or wrong turn in world politics, etc. Something that gives u cause and reason for the ennui u experience daily through disappointment. Everything is being caused becuz you're nationalism can't be realized by the world. So u ride the tiger like Evola to get through it.

A Jamesian praxis model would observe the pragmatic uses and effects of this ghosting on the individual psyche of the person who identifies as Roman, Spartan, or Nazi. The results show that the individual achieves a great deal of catharsis through exhibiting rebellious energy and intellect toward the status quo. So imaginary the forces may be, the effects of the virtual fantasy of a small port town in 800 Italy where pure bred Italian debutantes of noble stock pick flowers from fields and giggle, are quite extraordinary in their driving force toward cynicism and ultimately ideological rebellion against internationalism.

Old romantic and aristocratic nationalisms are just the active nostalgic forces of sentimentalism in politics and culture. It's an existential anxiousness to fill the void of nihilism with something resembling purpose and therefore needing effort. A cause, to work for, something bigger than the individual that the individual participates in, etc. Another spook, but a strong nation guiding one that's had both good and bad results.

promethean75 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:34 am Alright Wizzz I got a time lapsed photo of the stairs for u. The gentleman expressed no concern about the steps coming out into the yard so i went with the original plan. Btw the dude's name is Devon, so technically I built a stairway to devon, right?


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