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Re: Homo Hubris
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 30, 2021, 1:21 am
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More Apartheid South Africa content from our enemies:
HTML https://www.eurocanadians.ca/2021/12/the-miracle-of-south-africa-under-white-rule.html
[quote]I gabbed about the first video clip a few days ago: The
narrator of this documentary said this was a miracle that
transcended the limits of space and time — which is to say that
Whites created a miracle in South Africa that transcended every
possible world created by blacks in all the space and time
available in the universe”.[/quote]
Yes, it is quite hard to imagine "blacks" putting up signs like
these:
[img]
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[img]
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[quote]It really was a paradise.[/quote]
For whom?
[quote]Now I understand why the hostile elites hated South
Africa so much. It was a clear cut demonstration of the amazing
abilities and beauty of the White Boers who founded this nation.
When I was a naive undergraduate at McGill University I was
told that South Africa was “the personification of evil”. Tell
me, honestly, how could anyone believe that the images of these
women = evil?[/quote]
Because of their face shapes, perhaps?
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U5P-85HoSc
[quote]Thinking about these images, what they tell us about
Whites, can be a major red pill teaching moment.[/quote]
Yes, the images tell us they are subhuman filth who should be
prevented from reproducing by any means necessary. The policies
of Apartheid confirm it.
And one more thing:
HTML https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51w4y0yJSAL._SX324_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 9, 2022, 9:04 pm
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Our enemies displaying their attitudes on various subjects:
HTML https://www.eurocanadians.ca/2022/01/faustian-and-apollonian-money-rationalism-empiricism-and-our-political-situation.html
[quote]Experimentation over Useless Theoretical Subjects
Experiments are dirty, expensive, illogical, based most of the
time on the intuition of the doer, and not able to be described
systematically by a set of concepts, so they are despised. But
it has got more things done than any theory.
...
only children still try to “seek the truth and the mysteries of
nature”, the experienced scientists understands this is not
possible and uses his theory as a working hypothesis to dominate
space and actually do things. Science is an activity, not a
contemplation. We already know that quantum mechanics is
contradictory in itself, so it cannot be a true theory, but it
is being used to build amazing quantum computers.
I want to give a few examples that will not take much of the
reader’s time, so I can make sure he understands exactly what I
have in mind in practical terms, not just in words.
James Henry Salisbury: Practioner of Healthy Eating
Let’s start with James Henry Salisbury, a medical doctor who
published what is perhaps the most important book in the history
of medicine, The Relationship of Alimentation and Disease.
Salisbury was an avid practitioner who cared little for
theories, and had no respect for scientific authority[13]. What
he discovered was that almost all diseases considered to be
genetic (consumption, asthma, etc.) are actually produced by
unhealthy feeding. After analyzing the feces of his patients, he
concluded that plant and grain products that we consume everyday
(and that are considered by most “doctors” as healthy foods) are
actually not digested by our intestines, since we don’t have the
capacity to do so[14]. These products, not being able to be
digested properly, remain for very long in the intestines, and
if such unnatural eating habit continues, the accumulation of
such products produces fermentation, and the eventual killing of
the cells of the intestinal walls, together with the production
of several gases that affect the lungs and heart, which affects
respiration and sleep [15]. In order to confirm he was on the
right track, he experimented with a thousand hogs, since their
digestive organs are closely related to ours; he also conducted
experiments in his own home, by hiring workers (paying them from
his own pocket) and conducing feeding experiments on them, and
on himself! He produced the most scaring diseases imaginable
(all claimed to be genetic and/or incurable by the medical
establishment), and then he would cure them by a changing in
alimentation.
Which modern doctor could have the courage or determination to
produce such achievements? The mere sight of a dead pig would
make modern sissy doctors (whose sole lives consists in sitting
at clean offices selling sanitized pills to ignorants) faint.
...
Michael Rose: Experimental Evolution and Biological Immortality
When it comes to the biology of our century, Michael R. Rose is,
without any doubt, the most important figure. His work has
profound political and social consequences, and I ask the reader
not to be foolish and keep such important information to himself
and to people he feel are worth it. Needless to say, the media
is completely ignoring him, because his work contradicts their
dirty interests. He is basically redefining evolutionary biology
and the way we understand health and ageing. What he managed to
prove was that biological immortality is a real mechanism in
humans, that doesn’t obey complicated laws, and that it is
deeply related to the first age of reproduction and diet[24].
When we are young, our bodies is very good at keeping us alive
because Hamilton’s forces of natural selection are very strong,
but as you “grow older”, the forces start to decline (specially
with reproduction), so your body stops “caring” about keeping
you alive, and, if the proper lifestyle and nutritional
adjustments are not made, eventually we will end up dying from
the food toxins before aging can stop and we can reach
immortality. What is so incredible about his work is that he
managed to prove experimentally in all cohorts that not only
ageing stops, but also managed to increase the lifespan of the
organisms in question in the first cohorts, which is what
matters to us.
...
Basically, his recommendation is that we should follow a diet
based exclusively of red meat and organ products, without any
agricultural products: no carbohydrates, no plants, nothing
[26]. We can see, in light of his work, how the globalist agenda
of veganism is harmful for us: as we age, we are going to loose
the capacity to process the plant toxins (plants don’t want to
be eaten so they protect themselves by producing toxins that
harm the enemy), and if we keep feeding on them, we are going to
die before aging stops. So, as we age we absolutely must switch
to things that are evolutionary consistent: meat diet, physical
exercise [27], social interaction, etc.[/quote]
When I encourage thinking of our enemies as vampires, it is not
hyperbole.
[quote]It is a fact that we are in a very precarious situation.
Out of such struggle as never seen before in history, there are
only two possible results: a triumph of the best of our race
with the elimination of its weaker elements by the enemy, or the
total extermination of every member of the Indo-European family,
the world condemned to never know such beauty and talent ever
again, reduced to a degenerate mass of mongrels that bark and
bite at the command of their financial masters. But even if we
do perish (we wont!), we shall do so with honour, with our faces
up and with a clear conscience that we have done everything
possible and impossible to survive, so that in a distant future
some culture may be able to look back at us and say “Here
perished a great people!”.[/quote]
They eat and experiment on animals in order to acquire
immortality, and then they claim to have "honour".....
I want a future in which we will look back at Western history
and say: "With their bloodlines subjected to systematic
elimination, Homo Hubris finally received retribution for its
centuries of evil on an incalculable scale for which they never
felt even the slightest remorse."
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/truth-knowledge/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dietary-decolonization/
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: guest55 Date: January 10, 2022, 9:03 pm
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The shear delusion and insanity of speaking of torturing to
death innocent non-humans for experimentation and then using the
word "honor" in the same article....
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 13, 2022, 8:16 pm
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More Duchesne doing our work for us:
HTML https://www.eurocanadians.ca/2022/01/the-birth-and-development-of-chemistry-was-perfectly-european.html
[quote]The science of chemistry was developed entirely by
European men.
...
Perhaps the best candidate to represent the beginnings of the
science of chemistry is the Anglo-Irish Robert Boyle. Boyle was
a prominent figure in the articulation of the modern science of
mechanics, with its idea that natural phenomena operated
according to mechanical laws. He actually sought to integrate
chemistry with physics as the two sciences that are seeking to
explain the properties of matter. His book The Sceptical Chymist
(1661) attacked the ancient doctrine of the four elements,
proposed a clear definition of element as a “perfectly unmingled
body, which not being made of other bodies…are the ingredients
of which…mixt bodies are immediately compounded” — which
anticipated the modern theory of molecules and atoms. He is
known for his famous “Boyle’s law” which states that there is a
an inverse relationship between pressure and volume of gas, and
for promoting the idea that air played a vital part in
combustion. From this point on, there is a consensus among
historians that the following names were critical in the
consolidation of the science of chemistry: G. E. Stahl
(1660-1734), Cavendish, Priestly, Black, and Lavoisier.
...
Once Lavoisier set chemistry on a firm scientific footing, and
established a good working definition of an element as a
substance that cannot be broken into more fundamental
constituents, it was a matter of time before new elements would
be discovered. Don’t believe the incredibly deceptive Wikipedia
claims about how the elements of gold, iron, copper, lead,
silver, and tin were discovered in the ancient Middle East and
Africa. These metals were used but not consciously discovered as
chemical “elements”. It was only as the science of chemistry
came into its own that elements came to be progressively
discovered. Phosphorus in 1669, cobalt in 1735, nickel in 1751,
magnesium in 1755, hydrogen in 1766, oxygen in 1771, nitrogen in
1772 — by European names.
The big question in chemistry soon became how to classify the
elements. This effort led to the development of the Periodic
Table, one of the greatest scientific accomplishments in human
history. John Dalton’s A New System of Chemical Philosophy
(1808), with its observations that the atoms of different
elements differed in size, weight and number per unit volume,
and that when two elements combined to form a compound each atom
of the first element united with one atom of the second element
in a series of whole numbers, played a crucial role in the
classification of elements. The studies by Swede Jakob Berzelius
(1779-1848) and the Belgian Jean Stas (1813-91) on the atomic
weights of the elements, and the law of isomorphism, which
allowed Berzelius to determine the formulae of many salts and
the atomic weights of their constituent elements, were also
important steps in the classification of the elements in a
scientifically accurate way.
The making of the Periodic Table included an all-white male
cast, consisting of Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, John Newlands,
Lothar Meyer, and Dimitri Mendeleev. Newlands showed how if the
elements were listed in order of atomic weight, each element
shared properties with those eight and sixteenth places later.
The German Lothar Meyer also noted the sequences of similar
chemical and physical properties repeated at periodic intervals.
The Russian Mendeleev is the one immortalized for drawing up the
Periodic Table in 1869, spelling out systematically how the
characteristics of the elements recur at a periodic interval as
a function of their atomic weight. Meyer had produced a similar,
if less systematic, version of the Table in 1868, but it was
Mendeleev who applied himself to the elaboration and defense of
his Table, predicting the properties of five unknown elements
and what their compounds would be, even before their discovery.
...
White men originated the science of chemistry, pioneered all the
fundamental ideas, from the seventeenth until the twentieth
century, created the research centers and university departments
that would transform chemistry into an institutionalized field
with thousands of scholars and researchers, working less as
individuals than as members of research teams funded in the
millions, and making new contributions, but relatively minor,
and none in the macro scale of the pioneers listed
above.[/quote]
So now we know whom to blame for all the relevant stuff listed
here:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/
and hence which bloodlines to eliminate first.
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 18, 2022, 9:45 pm
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Our enemies continue to tell us about what they value:
HTML https://www.amren.com/commentary/2022/01/empathy-or-greatness/
[quote]So, what makes whites worth saving? White greatness. In
everything that distinguishes humans from animals, it is whites
who lead. It is what Sam Francis, drawing from Oswald Spengler,
summarized as, “Faustian dynamism . . . the innovative,
aggressive, creative, mobile, aspiring, inventive, and daring
qualities that have always characterized
Indo-Europeans.”[/quote]
I agree. That explains the disgust I feel towards you. (Hitler
had a related quote: “The Jew is what is least similar to the
animal on this earth.” I agree with this one also. Hence:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/<br
/>)
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/mythical-world/turanian-diffusion/
Continuing:
[quote]Whites bring humanity to its highest peaks — no account
of human achievement can conclude otherwise.[/quote]
Th highest peaks of evil:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-sustainable-evil/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-western-civilization-does-not-die-soon/
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/progressive-yahwism/
[quote]Their descendants have cured diseases, shrunk distances,
raised cities out of jungles and deserts, constructed
technologies that replace and transcend human strength, restored
lost languages, recovered forgotten histories, stared into the
hearts of distant galaxies, and reached into the recesses of the
atom. No other people has ever even dreamed of these
achievements, and in so far as other peoples even know such
things are possible, it is because they have learned about them
from European Man.[/quote]
I agree. How much simpler life would have been if only you had
never existed! That is why your bloodlines must be eliminated if
we are to return the world to a simpler condition.
[quote]valuing “white greatness,” goes back to Homer, but today
it is more rooted in Nietzsche. He did not pity the miserable
and oppressed.
...
Which inspires you? Sympathy or love of greatness?[/quote]
Hatred of those who are inspired by the latter (including many
among the oppressed also ("non-white" Eurocentrists)). It is
those who are miserable living in Western civilization that I
have sympathy for.
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: guest55 Date: January 19, 2022, 12:23 am
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Interestingly to me the "white" moron quoted in the previous
post reminds me of what Dwarves think of Dark Elves in Warhammer
lore:
[quote]"There are not enough words in your simple tongue to
express our hatred for them, Human. Killers, despoilers, slavers
and thieves we name them, but not one of these oft-earned titles
begins to describe the depths of their depravity. They have
neither mercy nor honour. They roam and kill in darkness called
up by their foul sorceries. They are so base as to specifically
target children for their depredations. The capricious folk of
Ulthuan claim that they are their despised kin, exiled long ago,
but truly, can one ever trust the words of an Elf?"
—Hargrim Furgilsson, Dwarf Trader
[/quote]
[quote]The Dark Elves, or the Druchii as they call themselves in
their own tongue, also known as the Naggarothi or the "Dark
Ones",[5a] are one of the most ancient, powerful, and certainly
the most sadistic of the three Elven civilisations of the world.
In the bleak, chilly lands of the continent of Naggaroth in the
New World lies the Dark Elven kingdoms of the Witch King
Malekith, a realm born from the depths of malice and hate, a
kingdom that seeks nothing more than to despoil a world its
people believe loathes their existence. With malevolent eyes,
the Dark Elves watch this dying world, knowing it is their
birthright to rule all that they survey and those that live upon
it are born to do nothing more than to grovel at their
feet.[1a][/quote]
HTML https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Elves
Dark Elves of Warhammer = "Whites" and Western culture!
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 22, 2022, 8:12 pm
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Too many people still assume identitarians must have suffered
terrifying personal experiences involving "non-whites" in the
past that traumatized them into identitarianism. Here is another
example to the contrary, in our enemies' own words:
HTML https://www.amren.com/blog/2022/01/albuquerque-taught-me-the-reality-of-race/
[quote]New Mexico is a beautiful state and I recommend you go
and experience the land of enchantment that my conquistador
ancestors braved while searching for lost cities of gold. But
while great, living in its biggest city, Albuquerque, made it
abundantly clear to me that wherever you find Third World living
conditions you also find non-whites. And it was this pattern
that really opened my eyes to the dangers unchecked droves of
non-white migrants pose to the civilized world. Wherever they go
they bring with them the same misery that they longed to escape.
Luckily for me, I didn’t have any first-hand negative
experiences while living there. Even to this day, most of my
encounters with non-whites are positive. But this doesn’t cloud
my judgement when it comes to the bigger, existential
picture.[/quote]
Identitarians are identitarians because they are proud of their
colonialist ancestors. It is that simple.
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 26, 2022, 10:29 pm
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Our enemies' priorities in their own words:
HTML https://counter-currents.com/2022/02/the-pleasure-of-owning-a-classic-car/
[quote]By temperament and by instinct I have a need for the
superfluous. — Gabriele d’Annunzio
...
A new car is a formidable enabler of freedom, of course. It
allows its owner to travel anywhere, at any time, without
sticking to a public transportation schedule. It is — more or
less — a symbol of speed and an expression of the individual. It
is a private cocoon, sometimes the last refuge where a man is
left alone for any meaningful amount of time. And, nota bene,
the car is intensely hated by our rulers
...
Sadly, this same regulation has also made modern cars fat, ugly,
and boring.
...
The proper alternative to driving a modern car, of course, is
not public transportation. It is owning a classic car — as a
treat for special occasions, or even as an everyday driver.
Interestingly, many regulators try to shut the use of classic
cars down, but some countries recognize them as part of their
cultural and industrial heritage and protect your right to own
and use them.
HTML https://counter-currents.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Model-T.jpg
...
All the classic cars were invented by white men. For example:
1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K
1961 Ferrari 250 GT California
1961 Lincoln-Continental 4-door hardtop
1954 Lancia Aurelia B20 GT
1964 Aston Martin DB5
1935 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900
1956 BMW 507
1965 Jaguar E-Type
1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4
1962 Facel Vega
1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL
1972 Volvo 1800E
1949 Cadillac Club Coupe
1960 Austin Healey 3000 MK1
1967 Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale
1955 Citroen DS
1972 Opel Rekord Coupe
1967 Buick Riviera
1963 Citroen DS Cabriolet
1957 Ferrari 250 GT Coupe Speciale
1939 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500
1963 Chevrolet Corvette
1971 Lamborghini Miura SV
1939 BMW 328 ROADSTER
1970 R/T Dodge Challenger
1952-1953 Alfa Romeo 1900 C52 Disco Volante
1960 Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato
1946 Delahaye 135 MS ‘Narval’
1938 Delahaye 165 Cabriolet
1965 Bizzarrini 5300 GT Strada
1938 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Coupe
1954 Maserati A6GCS Berlinetta
1964 Maserati 3500 GTI Vignale Spyder
1953 Porsche 550 Spyder
...
Maybe someday we will build cars with the focus on style,
aesthetic and good engineering. And of course, spewing copious
amounts of CO2 that make the woke cry little salty tears!
(regulating technology for vague and unsubstantiated reasons
like global warming is a one-way ticket to obscenity and
purposelessness)[/quote]
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: guest55 Date: February 26, 2022, 10:51 pm
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[quote]And of course, spewing copious amounts of CO2 that make
the woke cry little salty tears![/quote]
Muah! You must accept my terrible ideas guys! Mweuah! This is my
contribution to humanity guys, you must accept it! Mhuah! This
is who I am as a person, why are you guys making fun of me!?
Mhuah, you're just haters! Mhuah! You MUST accept me and my
terrible ideas guys, I'm a human-being! Muah!!
This is what I imagine is going on in these types of people's
minds most of the time. Why can't they just fuck off and leave
the rest of us alone for crying out loud!?!?
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Re: Homo Hubris
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 26, 2022, 9:29 pm
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Our enemy Duchesne is back with possibly the best (for me to
ridicule) article he has yet written:
HTML https://www.eurocanadians.ca/2022/04/all-the-greatest-furniture-and-interior-designers-in-history-were-europeans.html
[quote]
HTML https://www.eurocanadians.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/HH146-640x620.jpg
The ceiling in Houghton Hall, palace built for Sir Robert
Walpole between 1722 and 1735. Walpole was Britain’s first Prime
Minister, and this palatial house was intended to celebrate his
rising political fortunes.[/quote]
This is what Duchesne calls "great interior design".
HTML https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/71482565/stop-it-my-eyes-hurt.jpg
[quote]Judith Miller’s Furniture: World Styles from Classical to
Contemporary (2010), which covers more than 3000 years of
furniture design in over 500 pages packed with illustrations,
dedicates a mere few pages to “Ancient Egypt” and “Ancient
China,” with a few additional pages on India, Japan and China in
the nineteenth century. Miller recognizes the aesthetics of
furniture making in these cultures while implicitly noticing
that once these civilizations created certain ideals in
furniture design and decoration, these types remained in
“continuous use” for centuries with slight variations until the
West impacted them in the nineteenth century. She observes that
the “golden age” of furniture production that was witnessed in
the Ming era (1368-1644), with its ideal of “simple furniture
with clean lines and sparse decoration limited to lattice work
and relief carving,” would “remained entrenched” through to the
entire Qing era (1644-1912), except that furniture pieces became
larger and heavier (pp 24-5).[/quote]
The parts in bold are compliments. This is how design is
supposed to be.
[quote]One gets the impression that the authors of furniture
histories, and the related subject of interior design, believe
it is only natural to focus almost exclusively on Europe —
because the historical reality, the images, drawings, and
documentary evidence we have, demonstrate that only Europe saw a
continuous sequence of changing styles. A proper aesthetic
assessment of these styles requires separate chapters and
explanations. Authors don’t feel they have to justify their
implicit Eurocentrism. It comes naturally to them on the
strength of Europe’s magnificent creativity. Conversely, they
feel that the persistency of similar styles in the nonwestern
world, or the prevalence of one model of aesthetics, justifies
giving these civilizations less attention. One of the best books
on this subject, History of Interior Design & Furniture: From
Ancient Egypt to Nineteenth-Century Europe, by Robbie G.
Blakemore, opens with a chapter on Egypt, and then, without any
hesitation, as a matter of fact and reasonableness, dedicates
the next 400 pages solely to European interior design of floors,
walls, ceilings, chimneys, decorative materials, tables, chairs,
windows, doors, beds, storage pieces, and stairways.[/quote]
And this is why we call you Homo Hubris. You will never be
satisfied.
[quote]I have noticed the same Eurocentric tendencies in the
rather popular subject of architecture. A World History of
Architecture by Michael Fazio, Marian Moffett, Lawrence
Wodehouse (2004) informs us that their book offers a “diverse
sampling” of the world’s world’s architecture, with one chapter
assigned to “The Beginnings of Architecture” in Ancient
Mesopotamia and Egypt, another chapter to “Ancient India and
Southeast Asia,” one to “China and Japan”, one to “Islamic
Architecture”, and one to the Pre-Columbian Americas. Eleven
chapters, however, are reserved exclusively for Europe or the
West generally. Similarly, Architecture: A World History, by
Daniel Borden, et al., is mostly a chronology about European
architecture once it covers the stereotypical models of ancient
civilizations in the opening chapters.[/quote]
Of course, because you are the ones who make architecture more
complicated than it needs to be, so it is entirely expected that
more chapters are needed to describe the incomparable mess you
have made. I would not call this on its own Eurocentrism.
Eurocentrism would be to think that more chapters being needed
to describe Western architecture implies Western architecture is
superior. In other words, it is Duchesne himself who is the
Eurocentrist.
[quote]Black Africa was utterly devoid of any impressive
architectural work.[/quote]
Before we continue, this is untrue, of course.
HTML https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cb/e2/9c/cbe29cb156b522f6497915669af26534.jpg
HTML https://www.pinterest.com/pin/124623114666442015/
HTML https://twitter.com/women_1000/status/1356936213521915906
etc.
Back to enemy article:
[quote]The civilizations of the Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas
constructed “monumental” stone buildings, pyramids and temples
at the behest of state officials, but these architectural
attainments were a one time affair in their originality,
deserving only one chapter or section in a world history survey.
...
What about Chinese architecture? It is worth quoting what Nancy
Steinhardt, a major expert, tells us about architects in Chinese
Architecture: A History (2019).
Most of them were officials whose service at court included
directing imperial-sponsored projects, perhaps occasionally even
designing, and writing about construction. The classical Chinese
language has no word for “architect,” only one for a person who
engages in the craft of building. Instead, from as early as
written records can confirm, the final millennium BCE, in every
branch of Chinese construction—public or private, imperial or
vernacular, religious or secular—principles and standards
established centuries earlier dictated building practices. The
standards were sanctioned and guarded by the Chinese court, and
the government was the sponsor of all major manuals that dealt
with official architecture. Craftsmen were not required to be
literate, only to follow prescribed modules and methods so as to
ensure that court dictums were followed. The treatises expound a
standardized system of construction that is maintained not just
in imperial buildings of life and death and a towering religious
monument, but in temples hidden in the mountains, houses, and
shrines, and in paintings and relief sculpture of architecture
through the ages (Introduction, pp. 1-7).
All the popular talk about “Chinese Garden Architecture,”
“Chinese Buddhist Architecture,” “Chinese Taoist Architecture,”
or “Chinese Confucian Architecture,” cannot hide the
standardized, bureaucratic, impersonal reality of China. As a
huge country with many different ecosystems and historical
settings, different stereo-typified styles emerged in different
regions. I say “stereo-typified” because once these styles were
established they became ready made models for hundreds of
years.[/quote]
This is how it is meant to be! Instead of continuously enlarging
and filling the space of stylistic possibilities, design should
be about choosing a subspace based on an aesthetical ideal and
then refining it by narrowing it down, which means excluding
more and more that is found to be inconsistent with the ideal.
[quote]In stark contrast, when one examines the existing
scholarly literature, the conclusion cannot be avoided that
Europeans originated a continuous sequence of major
architectural stylistic periods (within which there were other
national styles), each deserving a chapter in a fair minded
world history.[/quote]
I do not try to avoid this conclusion. I merely consider such a
conclusion evidence of Western inferiority.
[quote]Let’s get back to the main subject of this article:
furniture design and interior architecture. I am no expert on
this subject, but drawing on extensive research on Western
civilization from a comparative historical perspective, I will
surmise the following four interconnected key traits about
Western interior design and furniture:
1. It exhibits the greatest variety within each kind of
furniture; for example, in the variety of chairs, beds, and
tables, including variety of ceiling configurations (flat,
coved, or vaulted, for example), chimney pieces, stairways, and
spatial relationships.
2. Its artistic inspiration, creativity and originality, was
driven by a Faustian will for recognition on the part of the
artists, pursuit of individual renown, and a will to surpass
prior accomplishments.
3. Close to 100% of pre-20th century treatises (fully
articulated arguments) on the principles of furniture-making,
architecture, the geometric shapes and patterns of room/spaces,
height and configuration of ceilings, internal arrangement of
stairways, chimneypieces, were written by Europeans.
4. The Platonic striving for perfection, the highest in
beauty, the discovery of a “blueprint” of perfection, has been a
very powerful motivation, nothwistanding the pursuit by each
individual artist of his own style, and the subsequent powerful
influence of technology, new materials, and mass consumerism in
the twentieth century.[/quote]
I agree with 1, 2 and 3. However, 2 and 4 are mutually
exclusive. Western design in fact never strives for perfection,
but only for progress. Progress and perfection are mutually
exclusive. It is logically impossible to both strive to surpass
prior accomplishments and seek the blueprint of perfection,
because if someone else has already discovered the blueprint of
perfection, the only way to surpass this prior accomplishment is
to reinterpret the blueprint as merely a new vantage point from
which to reach the next stage of progress (as Westerners do in
reality).
[quote]The epoch of continuous creativity in interior design and
furniture making in Europe begins in the Renaissance around the
mid-fifteenth century.[/quote]
I know.
[Continued in next post.]
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