“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…)
Tag: Venice
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2,096 words
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 ByronThe 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…)
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September 9, 2015 Greg Johnson
Uwagi o populizmie, elitaryzmie i demokracji
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October 2, 2014 Greg Johnson
Notes sur le populisme, l’élitisme, et la démocratie
3,250 words
English original here
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…)
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3,018 words
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…)
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November 7, 2012 Greg Johnson
Anmerkungen zu Populismus, Elitismus und Demokratie
2,917 words
Übersetzt von Deep Roots
English original here
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…)
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2,972 words
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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March 5, 2011 Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt’s Land & Sea, Part 2
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March 4, 2011 Carl Schmitt
Carl Schmitt’s Land & Sea, Part 1
3,004 words
Part 1 of 9
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.