Tag: Venice

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“Time is water and the Venetians conquered both by building a city on water, and framed time with their canals. Or tamed time. Or fenced it in. Or caged it.” (more…)

Venice Inflatable Refugee, an “art project” that was on display in Venice in 2016

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I loved her from my boyhood – she to me
Was as a fairy city of the heart
Rising like water-columns from the sea.
— Lord Byron

The cupola of St. Mark’s basilica glows against the midnight-blue sky as I follow in Monet’s wake, sailing on a bobbing gondola that is being showered by flickering light, reflecting outward across the windless lagoon through medieval arched windows. (more…)

Demosthenes

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Czy demokracja jest dobrym systemem z perspektywy rasowo świadomych białych ludzi?

1. Jeśli zarówno Stany Zjednoczone i Korea Północna określają się mianem demokracji, można bezpiecznie stwierdzić, że „demokracja” oznacza prawie wszystko i praktycznie nic. (more…)

Démosthène

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La démocratie est-elle un bon système du point de vue des Blancs racialement conscients ?

(1) Quand les Etats-Unis et la Corée du Nord se décrivent tous deux comme des démocraties, il est sain de conclure que « démocratie » signifie proche de tout et de rien. En ce qui me concerne, je définirai la démocratie comme l’idée que le pouvoir de prendre des décisions politiques doit résider dans les « nombreux ».  (more…)

Giovanni Bellini, Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan, 1501

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Following the Greeks’ experiment in democracy, sortition did not play any political role in the western world until the 11th century, when a relative power vacuum in Northern Italy led to the emergence of independent city-states.

At the time, the political and social conditions in Northern Italy were vastly different from the feudal system in Northern Europe. In Northern Europe, states were ruled by hereditary monarchs to whom the land-owning nobility professed allegiance and from whom they courted favors. (more…)

Demosthenes

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Ist die Demokratie aus der Sicht rassebewußter Weißer ein gutes System?

1) Wenn sowohl die Vereinigten Staaten als auch Nordkorea sich als Demokratien beschreiben, kann man mit Sicherheit schlußfolgern, daß „Demokratie“ nahezu alles und nahezu nichts bedeutet. (more…)

Demosthenes

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Translations: French, German, Polish

Is democracy a good system from the perspective of racially-conscious whites?

(1) When both the United States and North Korea describe themselves as democracies, it is safe to conclude that “democracy” means close to everything and next to nothing. (more…)

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Translated by Simona Draghici, revised by Greg Johnson

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William Blake, "Behemoth and Leviathan," 1825

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Translated by Simona Draghici, revised by Greg Johnson

As told to my daughter Anima

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Man is a terrestrial, an earthling. He lives, moves and walks on the firmly-grounded Earth. It is his stand­point and his base. He derives his points of view from it, which is also to say that his impressions are deter­mined by it and his world outlook is conditioned by it.

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