Things happen randomly, but collecting aphorisms is a foundational thing here at Patriactionary. Was reading in Warrior Politics the other day when I found this gem by Jose Ortega y Gasset:
“Romper la continuidad con el pasado, querer comenzar de nuevo, es aspirar a descender y plagiar al orangután.”
Oops, that’s not it! Who imagines that anyone speaks anything other than English. Rendered into proper language we have:
“Man’s real treasure is the treasure of his mistakes, piled up stone by stone through thousands of years… breaking the continuity with the past, wanting to begin again, is a lowering of man and a plagiarism of the orangutan. It was a Frenchman, DuPont-White, who around 1860 had the courage to exclaim: ‘Continuity is one of the rights of man; it is a homage of everything that distinguishes him from the beast.’”
However, that merely provides a good idea of WHY we face the future, looking firmly to the past. Nassim Taleb quotes the following bit of Mediterranean thought in his new book, The Antifragile: “Whoever has no past, has no future.” I asked a couple of Mediterraneans, and they offered another version of it: “A tree without roots will not grow.”
In that spirit, we elevate this comment by Oogenhand to Motto 2013 Status: Culture War can be waged back.
alfredwclark
January 31, 2013 at 2:19 pm
Here’s a new blog: Occam’s Razor
http://occamsrazormag.wordpress.com/
It has multiple bloggers and will include topics: HBD, politics, history and economics, immigration, etc.
We are still working on blogroll. If we do not have you added, please add us, leave comment or email, and we’ll add you.
Thanks.
Reader
February 2, 2013 at 1:42 pm
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Here’s an interesting reading list: Pro-Western Christianity
http://prowesternchristianity.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-pro-western-christian-reading-list.html
Bookmark it because it’s a valuable resource!
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