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Shade of Achilles's avatar

As a free subscriber I suppose I may pay my way in some small part through flatterie

For you exhibite greate acuity in your remark that men find that direct confrontation with female enemies runs againste the graine and that the myth involves *forcing* self-reflection on implacably errant womyns.

Forsooth to them it is like unto death! I had never thought of it thus.

Paulos makes some half-decent points too I guess somewhere in there idk

No no for real I think maybe the best of his many incandescent insights is that concerning Aryan (I know you're half Jew so sorry no offence) masculine directness and pragmatism. The Aryans brought a linear, *progressive* metaphysic to the world (Bronze Age ARYANS as the true progenitors of WOKE?!). Contra the TRADS, the cyclical metaphysic reliant on nomos readily perverted by devious priestly means is not that to which we ought retVrn. This is an admittedly sub-BAPist point which I just kind of feel like like is worth like making ya know.

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Isaac Simpson's avatar

is this shakespeare?

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Shade of Achilles's avatar

Dunbar--gotta read it in a Scotch accent

sorry I was slightly pissed at the time

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Shade of Achilles's avatar

Paulos' piece on the Riace Bronzes is the best article on Substack no doubt

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Isaac Simpson's avatar

He really is one of the great writers and he needs to do it more

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Shade of Achilles's avatar

indubitably

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