It was actually the Russians who buried their banners and hid their graves out of fear of Khanâs zealous followers.
Terracotta Warriors in Xian is a good example. There is a river of mercury that stands between humans and where the emperor at the time is buried.
The Chinese historians and archaeologists know where the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty is interred, but they are not likely to expose his body.
Why?
Because they know that the emperor was a white guy from Central Asia, not an ethnic Chinese. How embarrassing it will be when it turns out that the first (and last) emperor of Qin, which gave the name âChinaâ to the world, was not a Chinese.
That would be an interesting factoid if proven correct.
Do you have reference to that theory? Would like to learn more about that.
The First Emperor was an illegitimate child.
It is an indication that he was of a different race.
I donât read ancient Chinese texts, but I believe there are references to his big stature and body-build, which do not correspond to ethnic Han Chinese who are Asians.
There were no photographs then and his portraits were made hundreds of years after his death by Chinese artists using their imagination.
The First Emperor hated Confucianism, another sign that he was alien to traditional Chinese thought.
You can check youtube and other sites referring to white or Caucasian mummies found in western China dating back thousands of years.
Nobody can own land.
Nature is sacred.
Nature doesnât need us. (But we need nature).
The movie was not very good - in the 70âs the BBC did a five-part miniseries on that book that was the definitive version, with Alec Guinness as Smiley. Itâs almost five hours long, so few have seen it, but if you can sit through a slow-developing story, itâs a great one. Another one of his Smiley books, âSmileyâs Peopleâ was also done by the BBC and was also excellent - but that one was almost six hours long.
It has been a long time since I have see it, but it almost put me to sleep if I remembered correctly
I will see if your version can be viewed
They are the most eloquently expressed words both on a prophetic and poetic level that I have ever read.
Here is the New Mark Judge piece. This has some really good literary value and is very profound in many aspects. Canât recommend this enough!
Nothing is more flexible and softer than water yet nothing can resist it
17/ The Rebel
âIf youâre not a communist by the time youâre 20, you have no heart. If youâre not a reactionary by the time youâre 30, you have no brain.â
CAMUS went through this arc
22: Joined Communist Party
27: Besties w Satre
38: Wrote The Rebel, an anti-communism classic
What Albert Camus shows is there is still hope for the evolution of ideology and that there is still time to correct oneâs views to a more pragmatic one. Nothing is good with communism.
A lot of them do come from Russia? No? In a historical sense.
The Khazar Empire ruled eastern Ukraine and southern Russia as well as parts Caucasus mountains.
The Russian Empire may have defeated the Khazars, but the coup de grace came from the Mongols in the 12th -13th centuries, but the Khazars like to blame white Christian Russia for the demise and this hatred is carried on to our day, as witnessed by the tremendous hatred of Russia among the neocons. But they say nothing about Mongols, because after all, Mongols and Gokturks were closely related racially speaking.
The Khazars, after the loss of their empire, scattered to various parts of Russia and Poland which was a huge kingdom stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.
The Khazars were fierce fighters before their conversion to Talmudic (Pharisee) Judaism in the 9th century and defended their territory against the Arabs, but neither of them were good at mountain warfare and their battles in the Caucasus were inconclusive.
âKhazar,â âKazakhâ and âCossackâ come from the same Turkic word meaning âgrassland nomadsâ which their ancestral Gokturks were.
Needless to say, Kazakhs in Central Asia converted to Islam in the 13th century but the date of Cossack conversion to Christianity is unclear.
The Gokturks in northern China had their heyday in the 6th century and conquered Central Asia and (what is today) southern Russia and Ukraine.
The Gokturks practiced shamanism but after the decline of the Gokturk Empires, their descendants figured they were abandoned by their gods or spirits and sought âmonotheisticâ religions.
The same reason as the Germanics (Scandinavians, Germans, etc) abandoned their ancestral gods and accepted Christianity.
Many Japanese burned or threw away their Shinto shrines at home after the defeat in 1945. I guess itâs the same human psychology.
For those interested in learning about what the â4th Turningâ means, here is a link for a free PDF download.
Chesterton called him a seer
Emerson: âHe never wrote a dull lineâ
Dig into Carlyleâs insights on how every society needs aristocrats, why Caesar will be a young man.
As others wrote histories âfrom belowâ
Carlyle created the Great Man Theory
A society that is cynical or hateful toward its great men has gone spiritually bankrupt
Carlyle: âThe most significant feature in the history of an epoch is the manner it has of welcoming a Great Manâ
LITERAL blueprints on the basis of which other men design their lives
Carlyle writes that the âleaders of menâ are the âmodelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrive to do or to attainâ
Its only Gods: âGravitation and selfish Hungerâ
It recognizes no nobility
Hero-worship does
The example of heroes guides us through our âdark pilgrimage through the waste of Timeâ
To remain stuck at debates is to âoverturn the tree,â make âgreen leaves and fruitsâ impossible
And show the âugly taloned rootsâ as oneâs great achievement!
The 18th century marked a dark turn for humanity
Faith was replaced by âskepticism"
Intellectual doubt soon became âmoral doubtâ
The conviction of heroes was replaced by âinsincerityâ and âspiritual paralysisâ
âWonder, Greatnessâ were out - âTriviality, formalismâ were in
When a society raises an undeserving mediocrity to the throne - a âcounterfeitâ and not a true king - it commits a âpractical blasphemyâ against Nature and God. It will have to pay the âpenalties.â
Carlyle: âPenalties deep as death, and at length terrible as hell-on-earth!â
Thomas Carlyle: âIt is the everlasting privilege of the foolish to be governed by the wise; to be guided in the right path by those who know it better than they.â
Julius Evola: âIt is not the master that has need of the minion, it is the minion that has need of a master.â
Atomization is INHERENT in modernity
The âpracticalâ consequence of noble-sounding words like enfranchisement and emancipation is the âcutting asunder of human relationsâ
Now we are âFree, without bond or connection except that of cash-paymentâ
Is this really a âsolution?â
Why revolutions happen
The masses scream in a âmonstrous, loud, inarticulate voice of Chaosâ when their leaders give up their rightful duty to lead and become âimbecile hypocritesâ
Kings set the stage for their usurping when they reduce themselves to âPlayactorsâ
When all his plans are nothing but âdead ghosts and unborn shadows"
His regime becomes a âfalsity of falsitiesâ
The people sense this
Finally the house of cards âceases to stick togetherâ
The core instinct of a revolution: find a better âcenter to revolve roundâ
Even men in the âthickest of the madnessâ know that âdisorder is dissolution, deathâ
Whatâs the point of democracy if it doesnât help us attain a âtruer Aristocracy, a Government again by the Best?â
When rebellion is as bad as tyranny
Carlyle: âWoe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is!â
Claiming unearned obedience is rightfully and universally condemned
But refusing to give earned obedience is just as big a problem
Carlyle describes Democratic governments:
âThey drift and tumble to and fro, no-whither, on the popular vortexes, like some carcass of a drowned assâ
Democracies are at the mercy of the popular will
While a deserving Caesar accepts the right and duty to mold it
Expect the Caesar to be a young man:
âWhat of leadership is still to be done, the youth must do it, not the aged man, who, hardened into skeptical egoism, knows nothing but his own frigid cautions, avarices, mean timidities; & can lead nowhere towards a noble objectiveâ
Carlyle gives fascinating answers in his book âOn Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in Historyâ (1841)
Above all, heroes are sincere generalists
More details in Caesarâs CV
Whatâs common among the following three words?
Answer: Carlyle coined all three of them
Many words you use daily trace their origin to one man: Thomas Carlyle
A list of these words and their colorful history
