Like Zeus who rescued his Olympian siblings to overthrow the old decadent order of his Father, Cronus, the new aristocrats must rise and defeat the modern oppressive order and create a renaissance of heroic power and light. Passage from my upcoming book, 'Aristocratic Spirit':

Even ironic pessimism is dangerous. You can never forget that there's an entire propaganda system that wants you subservient, fat, stupid, and for you not to achieve your dreams. We live in an age of information warfare where your sacred power of interpretation of the world is being hijacked towards pessismism and defeatism. To win, you must be a wellspring of overflowing solar vitality and optimism.

The brainwashing and conditioning is so subtle, and so persistent, that most men don't even know it's there. But it is. And you see the results all around you, every single day. We have to show them a better path.

Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

Euripides on wealth: μὴ πλοῦτον εἴπῃς· οὐχὶ θαυμάζω θεόν, ὃν χὠ κάκιστος ῥᾳδίως ἐκτήσατο. - Don’t talk to me about money, I do not admire a god whom even the greatest wretch can easily get a hold of. Fragment 186

You didn't "fail" at all. You're just paying your tuition to attend this college we call "Life." Everybody's got to pay their tuition. And guess what? It's never really paid off. You're going to be making mistakes all your life. And be glad for this.

Fear kills everything. Your mind, your heart, your imagination

Life begins at 40. That's about when you start to figure stuff out. Double down on yourself. Cut out the dorks and the bullshit. Speak your truth. Find the joy and the fire. Keep rolling, crunching, and blasting. The rest is up to you. (As someone once said 😃).

Some knowledge can't be "dumbed down." There is an entry bar. Either people are capable of rising to meet it on its own terms, or they aren't worthy of learning it in the first place.

“Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer. Put your principles into practice —now.” — Epictetus

Journalists are the laziest, dumbest group of people I've ever interacted with.

A virile mediterranean tan was part of what made a warrior beautiful, even since the bronze age. The sun is not the enemy.

No matter how deep the darkness or how impossible the situation, there is always a possibility you haven't considered, a strength you haven't discovered, or a door you haven't found.

Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

If you're truly putting yourself out there and trying to change your life, only two things can happen. Either you take the risk and win, or you take the risk and almost win. But you never lose Worst case scenario you come up short of whatever you envisioned in your head, but wherever you end up landing will always still be further than wherever you would've been had you not tried at all As long as you're in motion, failure is literally not within the realm of possibility. It's an outcome that's only reserved for the stationary. The bolder the action, the greater the safety net you ironically create for yourself

this is how you manifest btw

Praise for Alexander from Plutarch:

"Now it will not even cross your mind, should you happen to see a great and beautiful house (even though you could not see its owner), that it was built for mice and weasels, will it? Then if you were to consider a world so lavishly adorned, such great variety and beauty of heavenly things, such great power and size of the sea and lands to be your dwelling, and not that of the immortal gods, would you not clearly seem to be insane?" -Cicero, On the Nature of the gods.

being ready is a myth and overrated. you start. you suck. you figure it out. you get better. there is really no shortcut. be in the void and fail faster

Knossos, Crete.