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Re: Homo Hubris
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 10, 2021, 12:25 am
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Our enemies admitting "white" privilege:
HTML https://vdare.com/letters/a-reader-writes-on-the-real-white-privilege-the-privilege-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-higher-average-iq
[quote]Whites, on average, have been endowed with larger brains
than blacks. Because of this, again, on average, they have
greater intelligence, creativity, self-discipline and ability to
delay gratification. As a result, on average, whites are more
successful in most pursuits that matter today.[/quote]
And which civilization was it that unilaterally decided for the
whole world which pursuits would matter today? Was everyone else
ever asked whether or not we wanted such an arrangement?
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 22, 2021, 10:20 pm
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You've got to listen to this from our enemies:
HTML https://www.amren.com/blog/2021/07/brown-noise/
[quote]All over the world, in churches, libraries, universities,
streets, homes, and bedrooms, white ladies and gentlemen cherish
the sacredness that comes from being quiet. The darker races
wallow in noise. Their churches are energetic and boisterous,
their libraries are places for conversation and argument, and
their universities are scenes of conflict and clamor. In the
streets at all hours, they speak with vulgarity and crudeness,
they blast repetitive cultural anthems from cheap speakers,
flip-phones, and touchscreens. From their personal headphones
come obnoxious and high-pitched sounds, and when they are not
listening to music they are singing rudely in the street or
humming audibly.[/quote]
This, coming from the civilization that gave the world:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackhammer
[quote]In 1854, in England, Thomas Bartlett made and then
patented (1855) a rock drill, the bit of which was connected
directly to the piston of a steam engine. In 1855, Bartlett
demonstrated his drill, powered by compressed air, to officials
of the Mount Fréjus tunnel project.[12] (In 1855, a German,
Schumann, invented a similar pneumatic rock drill in Freiburg,
Germany.[13]) By 1861, Bartlett’s drill had been refined by the
Savoy-born engineer Germain Sommeiller (1815-1871) and his
colleagues, Grandis and Grattoni.[14] Thereafter, many inventors
refined the pneumatic drill.[15]
...
The sound of the hammer blows, combined with the explosive air
exhaust, makes pneumatic jackhammers dangerously loud, emitting
more than 120 dB SPL near the operator’s ears.[21]
Sound-blocking earmuffs and earplugs must be worn by the
operator to prevent a form of hearing loss, of which tinnitus is
the main symptom. Although some pneumatic jackhammers now have a
silencer around the barrel of the tool, the primary noise source
comes from the chisel striking the object being removed.[/quote]
and:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pile_driver
[quote]The underwater sound pressure caused by pile-driving may
be deleterious to nearby fish.[12][13] [/quote]
not to mention:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_noise_pollution
[quote]Aircraft engines are the major source of noise and can
exceed 140 decibels (dB) during takeoff. While airborne, the
main sources of noise are the engines and the high speed
turbulence over the fuselage.[6]
There are health consequences of elevated sound levels. Elevated
workplace or other noise can cause hearing impairment,
hypertension, ischemic heart disease, annoyance, sleep
disturbance, and decreased school performance.[7] Although some
hearing loss occurs naturally with age,[8] in many developed
nations the impact of noise is sufficient to impair hearing over
the course of a lifetime.[9][10] Elevated noise levels can
create stress, increase workplace accident rates, and stimulate
aggression and other anti-social behaviors.[11] Airport noise
has been linked to high blood pressure.[12] Aircraft noise
increases risks of heart attacks.[13]
...
The German study concluded that aircraft noise clearly and
significantly impairs health.[14] For example, a day-time
average sound pressure level of 60 decibels increasing coronary
heart disease by 61% in men and 80% in women. As another
indicator, a night-time average sound pressure level of 55
decibels increased the risk of heart attacks by 66% in men and
139% in women. Statistically significant health effects did
however start as early as from an average sound pressure level
of 40 decibels.[14][/quote]
or more generally:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_pollution#Health
[quote]Noise pollution affects both health and behavior.
Unwanted sound (noise) can damage physiological health. Noise
pollution is associated with several health conditions,
including cardiovascular disorders, hypertension, high stress
levels, tinnitus, hearing loss, sleep disturbances, and other
harmful and disturbing effects.[6][11][12][13][14] According to
a 2019 review of the existing literature, noise pollution was
associated with faster cognitive decline.[15]
Across Europe, according to the European Environment Agency, an
estimated 113 million people are affected by road traffic noise
levels above 55 decibels, the threshold at which noise becomes
harmful to human health by the WHO's definition.[16]
Sound becomes unwanted when it either interferes with normal
activities such as sleep or conversation, or disrupts or
diminishes one's quality of life.[17] Noise-induced hearing loss
can be caused by prolonged exposure to noise levels above 85
A-weighted decibels.[18] A comparison of Maaban tribesmen, who
were insignificantly exposed to transportation or industrial
noise, to a typical U.S. population showed that chronic exposure
to moderately high levels of environmental noise contributes to
hearing loss.[11]
...
Noise pollution can have negative affects on adults and children
on the autistic spectrum.[22] Those with Autism Spectrum
Disorder (ASD) can have hyperacusis, which is an abnormal
sensitivity to sound.[23] People with ASD who experience
hyperacusis may have unpleasant emotions, such as fear and
anxiety, and uncomfortable physical sensations in noisy
environments with loud sounds.[24] This can cause individuals
with ASD to avoid environments with noise pollution, which in
turn can result in isolation and negatively affect their quality
of life. Sudden explosive noises typical of high-performance car
exhausts and car alarms are types of noise pollution that can
affect people with ASD.[22]
While the elderly may have cardiac problems due to noise,
according to the World Health Organization, children are
especially vulnerable to noise, and the effects that noise has
on children may be permanent.[25] Noise poses a serious threat
to a child's physical and psychological health, and may
negatively interfere with a child's learning and behavior.[26]
Wildlife
Sound is the primary way many marine organisms learn about their
environment. For example, many species of marine mammals and
fish use sound as their primary means of navigating,
communicating, and foraging.[27] Anthropogenic noise can have a
detrimental effect on animals, increasing the risk of death by
changing the delicate balance in predator or prey detection[28]
and avoidance, and interfering with the use of the sounds in
communication, especially in relation to reproduction, and in
navigation and echolocation.[29] These effects then may alter
more interactions within a community through indirect ("domino")
effects.[30] Acoustic overexposure can lead to temporary or
permanent loss of hearing.
European robins living in urban environments are more likely to
sing at night in places with high levels of noise pollution
during the day, suggesting that they sing at night because it is
quieter, and their message can propagate through the environment
more clearly.[31] The same study showed that daytime noise was a
stronger predictor of nocturnal singing than night-time light
pollution, to which the phenomenon often is attributed.
Anthropogenic noise reduced the species richness of birds found
in Neotropical urban parks.[32]
Zebra finches become less faithful to their partners when
exposed to traffic noise. This could alter a population's
evolutionary trajectory by selecting traits, sapping resources
normally devoted to other activities and thus leading to
profound genetic and evolutionary consequences.[33]
Underwater noise pollution due to human activities is also
prevalent in the sea, and given that sound travels faster
through water than through air, is a major source of disruption
of marine ecosystems and does significant harm to sea life,
including marine mammals, fish and invertebrates.[34][35] The
principal anthropogenic noise sources come from merchant ships,
naval sonar operations, underwater explosions (nuclear), and
seismic exploration by oil and gas industries.[36] Cargo ships
generate high levels of noise due to propellers and diesel
engines.[37][38] This noise pollution significantly raises the
low-frequency ambient noise levels above those caused by
wind.[39] Animals such as whales that depend on sound for
communication can be affected by this noise in various ways.
Higher ambient noise levels also cause animals to vocalize more
loudly, which is called the Lombard effect. Researchers have
found that humpback whales' song lengths were longer when
low-frequency sonar was active nearby.[40]
Noise pollution may have caused the death of certain species of
whales that beached themselves after being exposed to the loud
sound of military sonar.[41] (see also Marine mammals and sonar)
Even marine invertebrates, such as crabs (Carcinus maenas), have
been shown to be negatively affected by ship noise.[42][43]
Larger crabs were noted to be negatively affected more by the
sounds than smaller crabs. Repeated exposure to the sounds did
lead to acclimatization.[43]
...
Another study that demonstrates a stress response in
invertebrates was conducted on the squid species Doryteuthis
pealeii. The squid was exposed to sounds of construction known
as pile driving, which impacts the sea bed directly and produces
intense substrate-borne and water-borne vibrations.[49] The
squid reacted by jetting, inking, pattern change and other
startle responses.[50]
...
Boat-noise has been shown to affect the embryonic development
and fitness of the sea hare Stylocheilus striatus.[52]
Anthropogenic noise can alter conditions in the environment that
have a negative effect on invertebrate survival. Although
embryos can adapt to normal changes in their environment,
evidence suggests they are not well adapted to endure the
negative effects of noise pollution. Studies have been conducted
on the sea hare to determine the effects of boat noise on the
early stages of life and development of embryos. Researchers
have studied sea hares from the lagoon of Moorea Island, French
Polynesia. In the study, recordings of boat noise were made by
using a hydrophone.[52] In addition, recordings of ambient noise
were made that did not contain boat noise. In contrast to
ambient noise playbacks, mollusks exposed to boat noise
playbacks had a 21% reduction in embryonic development.
Additionally, newly hatched larvae experienced an increased
mortality rate of 22% when exposed to boat noise playbacks.[52]
...
The anthropogenic noise produced by human activity has been
shown to negatively impact oysters.[54] Studies have revealed
that wide and relaxed valves are indicative of healthy oysters.
The oysters are stressed when they do not open their valves as
frequently in response to environmental noise.[/quote]
This is perhaps the most obvious example yet of how totally our
enemies invert reality.
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 4, 2021, 12:15 am
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An enemy discussion:
HTML https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t1323422/
[quote]I don’t see what’s wrong with White Supremacy. I get the
need for White Nationalism; but if that were to come about, the
rest of the world would revert to their pre-modern levels.
Perhaps technological society would continue aways in, say,
Japan; but the majority of the Earth would become much poorer
very quickly. Now, I don’t care about that; but since we’re the
best (and I won’t have any argument about that), shouldn’t we
take over the world and spread to the four corners of it, and
employ the locals in serving us productively in all places, and
give them something productive to do with themselves and enrich
ourselves in the process, and spread the superior gene to a
fuller flowering; much like we did in the good old Age of the
European Empires?
What is your problem with the survival of the fittest? I just
don’t get why we should pull up and allow the lesser races to
indulge their uselessness and wallow in savagery, and constrain
the best of nature, ourselves! It never used to be like this.
...
It shouldn’t be ‘White countries for White people,’ it should be
‘The world for White people’![/quote]
[quote]We, as White / Caucasians, are clearly the most
intelligent, most focused, most industrious, most productive,
the most brilliant, and the most genius of all the races on
God's Green Earth. We know it, as do all the other "lesser races
and species." And how do I know that the "other, lesser races
and species" know it? Because they attempt to imitate, emulate,
and mimic us at every conceivable opportunity; furthermore, the
jealousy just oozes from their very pores.
A great example is the subhuman, cannibalistic, savage, feral,
primate cockroach "colored" jungle beasts who habituate in the
United States of America. Although they hate the very ground
upon which the White man treads, the feral, primate, cockroach
"colored" jungle beasts still do everything in their power to be
"as much like the White man as possible."
And, of course, it IS NOT possible--the feral, primate,
cockroach "colored" jungle beasts cannot be anything close to
the White man, because--and this is fact--they're not HUMAN
BEINGS. And I'll be more-than-happy to show y'all stark evidence
of the fact that the feral, primate, cockroach "colored" jungle
beasts ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS!
...
Is there any conceivable task, problem, responsibility,
challenge that we White / Caucasians could not overcome? And, of
course, the answer is an unequivocal "NO." We've already amply
proven that we can overcome any challenge--and, by looking at
our proud history, we have evidence that we can even overcome
what we once-upon-a-time considered "insurmountable challenges."
I'd compile a list of all the amazing, remarkable, unbelievable,
and even super-human accomplishments of the White / Caucasian
race, but to do so would take hours-upon-hours. And I'm guessing
that you most likely are acutely aware of all the incredible,
amazing accomplishments of our White race.
So, in summary, the absolute best course of action for the White
/ Caucasian race is to "keep everything within our White race."
And, when I say "everything," I DO MEAN "EVERYTHING."
Clearly, wise people should learn from their mistakes. And, I
absolutely know that the White / Caucasian race is the most
advanced, most intellectual, most inventive, most brilliant race
that God Almighty has ever created. And that includes even the
yellow-vermin Orientals. I know that "some people" will argue
that the yellow-vermin, slope-headed, zipper-eyed gooks are more
intelligent than the White man. That is an absolute fallacy--and
one that I can easily defeat.
...
It is now time for we White people to live according to the
adage of: "to the victor go the spoils." We White / Caucasian
people have absolutely proven that in "the race" for superiority
(this is the only word I could find that would fit exactly into
my statement) we have not just won "the race," but in this
"race" we've lapped every other race several times over.[/quote]
[quote]First of all, let me reiterate that I fully support
racial separation, especially at this point in time. Our race is
so depleted and confused, that we need to step away for awhile
to regain our identity and sense of purpose. In the long term,
however, we have NO CHOICE but to re-engage with the world and
regain our RIGHTFUL PLACE as the leaders of humanity.
...
Once we've regained our strength and vitality, WE will set the
terms of engagement in accordance with our natural superiority.
[/quote]
[quote]Whites, created in God's image, are here to 'INSPIRE' the
other races, not rule over or try to change them into something
they are not.
...
When you see the amazing advancements and ways of life of
Whites, the culture and customs, etc., do the other races not
adopt aspects?
Do they not take what we have done and use it for themselves?
Do they not sit around waiting for the 'next big thing' we come
up with so they can exploit it?
From the beginning, the problem with Whites is getting too
involved with others. Let them see what we have done and learn
from us. -At a distance.[/quote]
[quote]About White Supremacy: honest Biologists,
Anthropologists, and Geneticists will very hesitantly admit that
the White / Caucasian race is "superior" to other races. If they
truly want to be honest, they'll have to evaluate "White
Supremacy / White Superiority" by weighing all the available
scientific, historical, biological, and societal facts about our
race.
...
When examining all the hundreds of thousands, if not millions,
of incredible inventions and amazing accomplishments of the
White / Caucasian race, it is impossible to NOT declare the
White / Caucasian race as both the supreme race and the race
with unchallenged superiority, as judged by our unbelievable
body of work over a number of centuries, and by our continued
and continuing amazing contributions to humankind.
...
As for "White Supremacy," I have absolutely no problem espousing
that the White / Caucasian race is the "supreme, dominant,
superior race" on the face of God's Green Earth. To deny this
fact is to lie to yourself.[/quote]
Funniest part of all:
[quote]Once you see photographs of someone such as the young
woman, Lisa Kueppers of Germany, on Instagram, you realize how
great Anglo beauty really is[/quote]
HTML https://yourfashion.gur
u/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/lisakueppers_profile.jpg
HTML https://image.shutterstock.com/image-vector/emoticon-laughing-wiping-tears-away-260nw-564985714.jpg
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: guest55 Date: August 5, 2021, 11:49 am
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Wow! ;D
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 11, 2021, 10:35 pm
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Another here:
HTML https://www.amren.com/news/2021/08/the-number-of-white-people-in-the-us-has-declined-for-the-first-time-in-history/
[quote]I like small petite girls.
With pretty faces.
Like the actress Dove Cameron.[/quote]
HTML https://studiosol-a.akamaihd.net/uploadfile/letras/fotos/0/e/c/7/0ec7c4151d5debf9d17ad323f53afcc0.jpg
The sheer consistency in our enemies' facial preferences never
ceases to amaze me.....
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/homo-hubris/msg5054/#msg5054
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/homo-hubris/msg5056/#msg5056
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 1, 2021, 12:28 am
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HTML https://www.firstthings.com/article/2018/03/the-anti-christian-alt-right
[quote]Almost everything written about the “alternative right”
in mainstream outlets is wrong in one respect. The alt-right is
not stupid. It is deep. Its ideas are not ridiculous. They are
serious.
...
The alt-right is anti-Christian. Not by implication or
insinuation, but by confession. Its leading thinkers flaunt
their rejection of Christianity and their desire to convert
believers away from it. Greg Johnson, an influential theorist
with a doctorate in philosophy from Catholic University of
America, argues that “Christianity is one of the main causes of
white decline” and a “necessary condition of white racial
suicide.”
...
“Like acid, Christianity burns through ties of kinship and
blood,” writes Gregory Hood, one of the website’s most talented
essayists. It is “the essential religious step in paving the way
for decadent modernity and its toxic creeds.”
Alt-right thinkers are overwhelmingly atheists, but their
worldview is not rooted in the secular Enlightenment, nor is it
irreligious. Far from it. Read deeply in their sources—and make
no mistake, the alt-right has an intellectual tradition—and you
will discover a movement that takes Christian thought and
culture seriously. It is a conflicted tribute paid to their
chief adversary. Against Christianity it makes two related
charges. Beginning with the claim that Europe effectively
created Christianity—not the other way around—it argues that
Christian teachings have become socially and morally poisonous
to the West. A major work of alt-right history opens with a
widely echoed claim: “The introduction of Christianity has to
count as the single greatest ideological catastrophe to ever
strike Europe.”
...
We men of the Western culture are an exception,” Spengler
claims. At the heart of his book is an interpretation of the
culture he named “Faustian,” a term widely used in the
intellectual circles of the alt-right. As with all cultures, a
single idea permeates the arts and sciences of the West. Its
distinctive mark is an intense striving for “infinity.”
According to Spengler, our culture has uniquely sought to see
all things in relation to the highest or most distant horizons,
which, in turn, it seeks to surpass and extend. The vaults of
medieval cathedrals, the discovery of perspective in painting,
the exploration of the New World, the development of orchestral
music, the invention of the telescope and calculus—in Spengler’s
story, all express the Faustian drive
...
the birth of scholasticism, Gothic architecture, and polyphony.
Here we have the springtime of a “new man and a new world”—and a
new religion. Its cultural achievements are not testimonies to
faith in God. They are the monuments of Faustian man’s
attempt—in speculation, stone, glass, and sound—to propel
himself into infinity. Of this aspiration, Spengler maintains,
“the Gospels know nothing.”[/quote]
I agree. This is what the term Homo Hubris refers to. Homo
Hubris (and hence Western civilization) is indeed
anti-Christian.
[quote]With Benoist, the alt-right becomes explicitly and
confessionally anti-Christian.
Benoist is the leading theorist of the European New Right, an
intellectual movement that began in France in the late 1960s and
took its inspiration from the failed “conservative revolution”
of Weimar Germany. Carl Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, Arthur Moeller
van den Bruck, and Spengler were its chief figures. Most of its
members, including Spengler, took sides against the Nazi regime,
but they also sought a path for the West beyond the twin evils
of American democracy and Soviet communism. Benoist comes from
this anti-liberal tradition, and his many books, which blend
extreme right-wing and left-wing ideas, attempt to envision a
post-Christian future for people of European descent.[/quote]
(It goes without saying that National Socialist Germany was
pro-Christian, aiming to purify it back to Gnosticism.)
[quote]There is no better introduction to alt-right theory than
his 1981 work On Being a Pagan. Its tone is serene, but its
message is militant. Benoist argues that the West must choose
between two warring visions of human life: biblical monotheism
and paganism. Benoist is a modern-day Celsus. Like his
second-century predecessor, he writes to reawaken Europeans to
their ancient faith. Paganism’s central claim is simple: that
the world is holy and eternal. “Far from desacralizing the
world,” Benoist tells us, paganism “sacralizes it in the literal
sense of the word, since it regards the world as sacred.”
Paganism is also a humanism. It recognizes man, the highest
expression of nature, as the sole measure of the divine.[/quote]
Benoist's paganism is more similar to Judaism than
Judeo-Christianity is!
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/ancient-world/antropocentricism-the-most-dangerous-ideology-in-the-world/
Back to the main article:
[quote]Benoist’s case against Christianity is that it forbids
the expression of this “Faustian” vitality. It does so by
placing the ultimate source of truth outside of humanity, in an
otherworldly realm to which we must be subservient.[/quote]
In other words, Benoist dislikes in Christianity only the
potentially Gnostic parts.
[quote]And here we reach Benoist’s remarkable conclusion. The
decadent West has never been more Christian. Christianity
imparted to our culture an ethics that has mutated into what the
alt-right calls “pathological altruism.” Its self-distrust,
concern for victims, and fear of excluding outsiders—such values
swindle Western peoples out of a preferential love for their
own.[/quote]
I agree academically with Benoist. The Counterculture era could
have been the bridge to Gnostic revival if it had only lasted
longer! And even now I have not given up on Gnostic revivalism.
But to achieve it we must first identify Homo Hubris as the
explicit enemy to first be eradicated from existence.
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 11, 2021, 9:57 pm
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Our enemy Duchesne is back to his favourite subject:
HTML https://www.eurocanadian.ca/2021/10/almost-all-greatest-cartographers-history-white-men.html
[quote]A supremely high proportion of the greatest cartographers
in history — reaching 100% after 1400 — were white men. This
will be the first article in a long series of future articles
about the far higher accomplishments of white men in all the
endeavors of human existence.
...
The focus of this article, however, is solely on the unsurpassed
cartographic achievements of Europeans, a rather neglected
subject, but a telltale about the unique ability of the European
mind to be conscious of the totality of the world beyond the
parochial, to strive for the unknown and master it.[/quote]
That's why we call them Homo Hubris.
[quote]the marvelous European age of discovery would begin in
the fifteenth century, preceded by the world eventful travels of
Marco Polo (1254-1324), which found expression in the Catalan
Atlas of 1375, a synthesis of medieval mappa mundi and the
travel literature of the time, showing compass-lines, and a
rather accurate delineation of the Mediterranean. The fourteenth
century also saw the emergence of the mariner's compass, which
made it possible to determine from the location of a ship any
coastal feature, harbor or island..
...
Waldseemüller was also the first to map South America as a
continent separate from Asia, the first to create a printed wall
map of Europe, and the first to emphasize the scientific
importance of surveying and to use a forerunner to the
theodolite, which he called the polimetrum, an optical
instrument for measuring angles.
There were other European cartographers but none as great as
Gerardus Mercator, who solved the perennial problem of how to
translate the spherical Earth into the flatness of a map. What
Mercator realized, among other things beyond my expertise, is
that to create a proper projection of the globe onto a flat
surface "the spacing of the parallels of latitude would have to
be made progressively larger away from the equator toward the
poles" and that "the spreading of the parallels would have to be
in exactly the same proportion as the spreading of the
meridians" (John Noble Wilford, The Mapmakers). Mercator was not
a lone soldier; in 1570 a man named Abraham Ortelius, though not
a cartographer himself, published the first edition of Theatrum
Orbis Terrarum, which incorporated seventy maps created by many
cartographers.
...
Once the age of discoveries intersected with the rise of modern
science and the development of geodesy, which began as a
surveying technique to determine with accuracy positions on
Earth, which involved the invention of accurate measuring
instruments and the development of new mathematical techniques,
all of which happened in Europe, it stands to reason that all
subsequent cartographers in history would be European. Some of
the surveying tools and techniques which allowed for detailed
hydrographic surveying of sea chores and islands, the topography
of lands, heights of hills and mountains, included the general
use of the plane table, for establishing and recording angles;
the method of triangulation to determine distance of remote
objects without going there; angle, distance, and
elevation-measuring instruments...and John Harrison's
(1693-1776) 'longitude' clock, which finally solved the problem
of determining longitude at sea. The men behind all these new
techniques were 100 percent from Europe.
It is said that the Cassini family were the first to start
mapping the interior of France, with César-François Cassini
(1714-84) being the most illustrious in the utilization of new
surveying tools such as triangulation and establishing that the
Earth was flattened at the poles, and in the production of an
accurate map of France.
James Cook (1728-1779) is best known as one of the greatest
explorers ever, for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in
the Pacific Ocean, reaching the southeastern coast of Australia
for the first time in history, circumnavigating New Zealand,
crossing the Antarctic Circle three times, and exploring the
Northwest passage all the way to the Bering Strait. He embodied
the Faustian spirit of exploration in its purest form, driven
solely by a will to explore without economic self-interest or
missionary zeal; confessing to an ambition which "leads me not
only farther than any man has been before me, but as far as I
think it possible for man to go".[/quote]
Again, that's why we call them Homo Hubris.
[quote]What many don't know is that Cook was also one of the
greatest cartographers in history. His voyages were models of
reconnaissance mapping. He produced the first hydrographic
surveys of the coast of Newfoundland based on precise
triangulation. He discovered New Zealand and mapped its entire
coastline using the sextant, which measures the angular distance
between two visible objects. He surveyed and mapped South
Georgia. In his search of the Northwest Passage, he mapped the
coast all the way to the Bering Strait.
This is a kernel of what this man accomplished. Today he is
disdained as a "colonizer"[/quote]
That's what he was! A colonizer is not absolved by drawing maps!
[quote]even though Cook exhibited "an entirely new civilized
attitude towards the natives of the lands".[/quote]
For example:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cook
[quote]Shortly after leaving Hawaii Island, however,
Resolution's foremast broke, so the ships returned to Kealakekua
Bay for repairs.
Tensions rose, and a number of quarrels broke out between the
Europeans and Hawaiians at Kealakekua Bay, including the theft
of wood from a burial ground under Cook's orders.[61] An unknown
group of Hawaiians took one of Cook's small boats. The evening
when the cutter was taken, the people had become "insolent" even
with threats to fire upon them.[62] Cook attempted to kidnap and
ransom the King of Hawaiʻi,
Kalaniʻōpuʻu.[/quote]
But let's get back to the enemy article:
[quote]There are too many great European cartographers to
suppress. Francis Beaufort produced in 1792 the first map of
Ireland, as the great hydrographer of his generation. He
instructed map -making explorers that "the height of all
headlands, isolated hills, and remarkable peaks should be
trigonometrically determined...The nature of the shore, whether
high cliff, low rock, or flat beach...the material of the beach,
mud, sand, gravel or stones" (John Noble Wilford, The
Mapmakers).
I wont say anything about the men who started mapping the
interior of India, and only a few words about the ones who began
land surveying and mapping the United States. One has to start
with the mapping explorers Lewis and Clark, who conducted one of
the most renowned journeys in history crossing the uncharted
American West from August 1803 to September 1806, reporting
about in detail about the geography and wildlife and producing
about 140 maps of the area. They were followed by John Charles
Frémont (1813-90), the first presidential Republican candidate,
mapping explorer of the country between Missouri and the Rocky
Mountains, Oregon and Upper California, and the "still and
solitary grandeur" of the Great Salt Lake. And Almon Harris
Thompson, the mapper of Colorado through the Grand Canyon,
southern Utah, part of Arizona — topographical maps to
illustrate rivers, canyons, mountains, with a geological
perspective.[/quote]
It goes without saying that they never asked permission from the
existing inhabitants before doing any of this.
[quote]For all this, it has been estimated that in 1885 less
than one-ninth of the land surface of the earth had been
surveyed — which should not surprise us since the rest of the
world remained asleep without much cartography other than the
knowledge percolating from the West. The rest of the world was
compelled to accept the cartographic directives of European men.
In 1884, the West told the world to adopt the Greenwich meridian
as the prime meridian of the world, dividing the Earth into the
Eastern and the Western hemisphere. The prime meridian is the
line of 0° longitude, the starting point for measuring distance
both east and west around the Earth. The prime meridian set by
white men over the world separates the eastern hemisphere from
the western hemisphere, and it is the International Date Line,
the imaginary line on Earth's surface defining the boundary
between one day and the next.[/quote]
And we are supposed to be grateful for this?
[quote]With the merger of the white technologies of aviation and
the camera, including aerial photogrammetry, cartography was
revolutionized yet again, leading the to the rapid mapping of
the globe through the 20th century. From this point on, we are
no longer speaking of trailblazers and mapping explorers as much
as institutionalized cartographers assisted by scientists
sitting on desks, who would go on to develop newer technologies,
automation techniques, electronic distance-measuring
instruments, inertial navigation systems, high resolution
radars, remote sensing, and computers — revealing great
geographic details at long distances These technologies allowed
radar imagery to be converted into maps of impenetrable regions
like the Amazon, including geologic and seismic mapping of the
earth beneath. They also began to map the mountains, chasms, and
plains beneath the oceans, with the use of deep-sea echo
sounders, magnetometers, and underwater sonars. And the
universe. Europeans had began mapping the moon back in the
seventeenth century with the lunar cartographer Johannes
Hevelius producing his famous Map of the Moon in 1647. Today,
hundreds of teams of scientists are working with complex
technologies, such as the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes,
mapping everything from the far reaches of the universe to the
most infinitesimally small particles within it. This Faustian
drive for mastery of the unknown has now produced (as of 2010),
based on the ground-based telescopes of the 2MASS Redshift
Survey, 3D images of 43,000 galaxies.[/quote]
This is the most fundamental problem: Homo Hubris will never be
satisfied. There will never come a point when they will say,
"OK! We've done enough maps! We don't need any more maps! Let's
finally stop!" Because to them it was never about needing the
maps themselves. It was always and only ever about the
self-gratification associated with doing something no one else
had done before (without concern for how much violence had to be
initiated along the way). The only way to stop them is to
eliminate their bloodlines.
[quote]Don't let them suppress these incredible achievements
away from white students for the sake of "increasing the
self-esteem of non-mainstream students"![/quote]
I am reposting Duchesne's article, so I can hardly be accused of
suppressing the information; if anything I am spreading it.
However, I want people to see it as evidence of Western
inferiority. By understanding what Homo Hubris is, the more we
read about how they chose to spend their time and energy, surely
the more we will despise them.
Bonus from the enemy comments:
[quote]It is quite possible that Chinese agriculture could feed
a much larger number of people from the same area of fertile
land than the Europeans could because the Chinese were much more
vegetarian.[/quote]
[quote]Yes, that was a big factor; European agriculture was
mixed-crop livestock farming.[/quote]
Yes.
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 10, 2021, 9:40 pm
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Let's not forget the Western fascination with breaking records:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/thought-going-heart-attack-edmond-235659046.html
[quote]'I thought I was going to have a heart attack': How
Edmond hunter killed possible Oklahoma state record deer
An Edmond hunter has killed a deer that likely will be a new
state archery record and is possibly the highest scoring typical
whitetail buck ever taken in the state.
"I never thought in a million years I would shoot a deer that
big," said Zach Meadows, who shot the buck with his bow on Nov.
3 in Logan County.
The 16-point buck has been scored before deductions at 210 by
Terry's Taxidermy in Oklahoma City, which would make the animal
the largest typical whitetail ever killed by an Oklahoma hunter.
The state archery record is a 188 5/8 buck from Pawnee County
which was killed by Gunner Womack of Morrison two years ago.
The overall typical record is 194 inches. That buck was killed
in Pushmataha County during the 2007 gun season by John Ehmer of
Tuskahoma.
Deer antlers are measured, or scored, in inches and are divided
into typical and nontypical categories. Typical antlers are
those that are symmetrical on each side with points in the usual
locations. Non-typical antlers are those that are abnormal with
unusual variations.
Antlers cannot be officially scored until after the 60-day
drying process. The score for Womack's buck likely will decrease
when officially scored.
But Terry Mayberry, owner of Terry's Taxidermy, said Meadows'
buck should beat the current state archery record and could be
the overall typical record.
"It's definitely got a chance," Mayberry said. "He's got quite a
few deductions on him. Until they get an official score, it's
hard to say. He's got all those kickers on him that are deducts
but he's definitely got the mass and got the circumference."
Deductions in scoring arise from any difference in symmetry
between both sides of a deer's antlers. The Wildlife Department
is expected to have a panel of Boone & Crockett certified
scorers measure the deer after 60 days.
...
Since news broke on social media about the deer, Meadows has
been something of a celebrity. He has received numerous phone
calls and congratulatory texts, including calls from hunting
magazines and taxidermists who wanted to mount the deer.
...
He went to Russia three years ago on a hunting trip where he
killed a possible world record roebuck, but he said last week's
Oklahoma whitetail hunt could become his most memorable.
"I am sure it will be," he said. "Whitetail just seem like the
most challenging out of everything I've hunted.[/quote]
The victims don't matter! It's all about the challenge!
[img]
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 27, 2021, 9:02 pm
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More Duchesne (remember that I - unlike False Leftists whose
narrative is mostly about crediting non-Western civilizations
for Western characteristics - mostly agree with him academically
about these characteristics being unique to Western
civilization; it is just that I hate those same characteristics
which he loves):
HTML https://www.eurocanadian.ca/2021/11/the-university-is-european-institution-par-excellence.html
[quote]let it be said, in the words of Walter Rüegg, that the
university is "the European institution par excellence." In its
past dedication to learning, open inquiry, celebration of truth,
there is no comparable institution. There were about 66
universities in the world in 1500 — all located in Europe. In
1789, the year of the French Revolution, there were about 143
universities in Europe, with only one university outside the
Western world in Turkey. This is the meaning of supremacy.
...
In the thirteenth century, universitas came to mean the totality
of the branches of knowledge, the whole community of learners,
in classical Latin. University teachers came to acquire the
status of a group which transcended local and disciplinary
boundaries in possession of a universally accepted corpus of
knowledge. The fact that this one institution spread over the
entire world, with the bachelor's degree, the master's degree,
and the doctorate adopted in the most culturally diverse nations
of the world, points to its universality.
European civilization originated this universal institution. No
other society conferred the privileges of a corporation to
institutions of higher learning wherein reason could find a
"neutral space" of free inquiry.[/quote]
This is correct. The False Left is indeed wrong in trying to
give credit to Islam for universities:
[quote]This interpretation of the origins of universities was
widely accepted in academia. But the pressures of
multiculturalism and nonwhite immigration are leading some
academics to argue that Moslems should be given precedent for
the origins of universities. They are demanding that the
University of al-Qarawiyyin be identified as the "first
university", although this place was designated as a
"university" only in 1963, and was originally founded as a
mosque in 859 (Esposito, 2003). Other academics are claiming
that Al-Azhar University, which was also founded as a mosque in
970-972, should be designated as "the second oldest university
in the world".
They are maintaining that Islamic centers of learning originated
the practice of organizing foreign students into associations,
and the idea of universal validity of the qualification for
teaching based on the title of the baccalarius. But according to
Rüegg, "the term baccalarius could not be an Islamic import of
the twelfth century because it was already in use in the ninth
century as the Latin designation of a preparatory or auxiliary
status in a variety of social careers" (p. 8). Even the
Islamicist George Makdisi, despite finding some general
affinities between Islamic centers of learning and European
universities, has concluded that "the university is a twelfth
century product of the West both in its corporate structure and
in the privileges it received from Pope and King" (cited in
Rüegg, p. 8). Makdisi himself cautions that "in studying an
institution which is foreign and remote in point of time, as is
the case of the medieval madrasa, one runs the...risk of
attributing to it characteristics borrowed from one's own
[Western] institutions...The most unwarranted of these
[comparisons] is the one which makes of the 'madrasa' a
'university'" (1970). The madrasa was not a high degree-awarding
institution, but a "college of Islamic law" lacking corporate
status and a rationalistic curriculum, supported by an endowment
or charitable trust, that is a waqf, which consisted of a
building or plot of land, for Muslim religious or charitable
purposes.[/quote]
The True Left argument is simple: which institution - university
or madrasa - has done more harm to the world? The answer is
obvious when we consider that almost everything listed in this
topic:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/
exists as a consequence of knowledge introduced by a university.
Thus Islamic civilization is superior to Western civilization
precisely because its academic institutions have done nowhere
near the harm done by Western academic institutions. And let's
not even get started about we would never have had to worry
about any of this:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-western-civilization-does-not-die-soon/
if only madrasas existed in the world.
[quote]List of Oldest Universities: A European Wide Phenomenon
The first university was Bologna, founded in 1088, followed by
Oxford in 1096. By the end of the fourteenth century, in 1400,
there were 34 universities across Europe, and in 1500 there were
66, and none outside.
HTML https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NxeNHhQJVYY/YYFHqeNUYeI/AAAAAAAAE9U/k5oCOsdprqoq17uSaKjQWJB4r-wp9FcjQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h578/Eh2u5nVn1lQwM6smImbPwEUoIN368Nlbp2jfxYZa_28.jpg
* University of Bologna, Italy – recognized as University 1088
* University of Paris, France – 1150
* University of Oxford, England – 1167
* University of Vicenza, Italy – 1204
* University of Cambridge, England – 1209
* University of Palencia, Spain – 1212
* University of Salamanca, Spain – 1218
* University of Padua, Italy – 1222
* University of Naples, Italy – 1224
* University of Toulouse, France – 1229
* University of Siena, Italy – 1240
* University of Piacenza, Italy – 1248
* University of Valladolid, Spain – 1250
* University of Seville, Spain – 1254
* University of Montpellier, France – 1289
* University of Coimbra, Portugal – 1290
* University of Macerata, Italy – 1290
* University of Lisbon, Portugal – 1290[/quote]
Universities should be called Homo Hubris incubators. Imagine
how much better a place the world would be if none of the above
had ever existed. The Renaissance, Western colonialism:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/
the Industrial Revolution and consequent population explosion:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/20/
as well as almost all of this:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-sustainable-evil/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/climate-weather-and-climate-effects-2020-and-beyond/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/wmds/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/israel/
etc.
would never have happened, and we wouldn't have to worry about
space travel or AI or any other stuff which we were never meant
to have been worrying about.
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 19, 2021, 8:58 pm
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Our enemies are at it again:
HTML https://www.amren.com/news/2021/12/afrikaners-south-africa-black-rule-white-genocide/
[quote]The physical beauty of many Afrikaner women is a constant
source of wonder to many.[/quote]
Comments:
[quote]The beauty of many Afrikaner women and White women in
general is unmatched.[/quote]
[quote]This is very true. I used to travel often before Covid,
but am constantly struck by the beauty of Afrikaner women in my
home country, including, may I say, my own beautiful wife. I
have often thought that one could easily start a lucrative
mail-order-bride service in America, with Afrikaner brides for
US males.[/quote]
[quote]Caucasian Women were the most beautiful Women in the
world hands down with little competition before the
1960's[/quote]
Judge for yourself (beach ball passing sequence):
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw97EwmztII
The good thing about a video like this (compared to me posting
pictures) is that it proves I am not preselecting the faces.
This is also a good video showing how "non-whites" were treated
under Apartheid (note the rickshaw puller having to wear a
ridiculous stereotypical costume while pulling the rickshaw
carrying "white" passengers).
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