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082349872349872 2y ago
> ...which is most unusual because it isn’t a book about hill people, but a book by a hill person. These are rare. Formal education isn’t highly valued in hill people cultures, and giving away information about your tribe is practically taboo. Rory Miller is unusual because most people who do applied violence ("corrections") don't also have the temperament to theorise about it, or if they do, little inclination to thereupon write it down. > She gains the courage of the fatalist Compare Epictetus, or even "Pluggers"? EDIT: for that matter, Cassandra in particular, and the trojan women in general > no comparative analysis of the Mongols and the Comanches I did run across one of these a while back: a blog post, not a book, but still an analytic comparison nonetheless. EDIT2: thinking of my locals: our origin stories are as a hill people (armor doesn't work well when it can't manoeuvre, in the XIII as in chechnya) but somehow we've picked up a hefty memeplex of conflict resolution skills on the way to the present?
082349872349872 2y ago
ὕλημπίλιες: https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-sea-people-by-christina-thompson#footnote-3-93634969 https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-sea-people-by-christina-...
- gradschoolfail 2y ago
  I guessed when psmiths mentioned Arcadia, they were thinking of the Illyrians.. for the Greeks before PII were a thalassocracy/machy [can we compare sarissa to Swiss pike] And then there were the Habsburgs.. In your locality, are there no (nonplains-derived, eg not Monts+Caps of Ephesus) fairy tales of dynastic feuds? Valleys have always been fertile, livestock abundant ( so that driving term high enough to avert fratricide/eternal war with the eastern barbarians)? Northern thais didnt discover grazing/lactose until 1970s, and then ofc appalachia/scottish notterriblelands [https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Badlands#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Badlands#Etymology] Q: what shape are the castles in Castalia, if Castalia itself is in the form of a tower — ofc i will relate to the general structure of polynesia :) Lowland cogniappe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41725625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41725625 Slavic muxa <-> lowland austrian/schwabian mugge <-/-> (??) maggot
  - aebtebeten 2y ago
    At first there were the Habsburgs — "and then there were none". livestock raiding + pikes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_raiding#/media/File:Schwäbischer_Bund_Luzerner_Schilling.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_raiding#/media/File:Sch... (local on local domestic* feuds are well attested, both in legend and in architecture, but very little gets built these days with defensibility as a prime consideration) I'll have to reread, but (having just arisen this morning) even caucasians were known for their feuds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vainakh_tower_architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vainakh_tower_architecture As a prediction before checking the etymology, I'll bet Муха/Mücke goes back all the way to PIE: one of the benefits of sitting around the campfire (attested!) for getting high (attested!) and gossiping about body counts (attested!) is that it tends to discourage insects (is this attested?) RCH as a measurement unit seems to have been derived from a more humanistic tradition, however. * international mixups ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eePHXDl0Pjc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eePHXDl0Pjc ) mostly ended when the poverty did, although I note that just this summer I saw a job posting for international development work that required either small arms certification or the equivalent army service. A colleague in KFOR tried to convince me, around the turn of the century, that vacationing where he'd served was great; I was almost ready to believe him until he started listing the "simple" rules for avoiding likely minefields.
    - gradschoolfail 2y ago
      It does, but imho the interesting part is the usage divergence , mosquito (midge?) vs fly (dialectal vs std german) Thx for the raiding article, all the forexes in one place :) And dont forget the (old) florentine skyscrapers, derived from germanic feuds? (G+G)
      - aebtebeten 2y ago
        true, the good old HRE, which was none of the three... incidentally, while looking for NdBdM's foxes and lions, I ran into something else: when I'd bounced off of Moldbug, there was one thing that seemed to be an actual claim, and not just vibe: that neo-nazis don't ever go around saying that the historical Nazis had just implemented it wrong; they weren't doing true Nazism. At the time, I couldn't think of any counterexamples, but I've recently learned Leo Strauss is one: https://balkin.blogspot.com/2006/07/letter_16.html#:~:text=the%20fact%20that,the%20shabby%20abomination%2e https://balkin.blogspot.com/2006/07/letter_16.html#:~:text=t... It was only 1933, and I only have it in translation, but still: he seems to me to be claiming to intend to argue that the historical Nazis were not behaving according to true "fascist, authoritarian, and imperial principles"?

082349872349872 2y ago

> ...which is most unusual because it isn’t a book about hill people, but a book by a hill person. These are rare. Formal education isn’t highly valued in hill people cultures, and giving away information about your tribe is practically taboo. Rory Miller is unusual because most people who do applied violence ("corrections") don't also have the temperament to theorise about it, or if they do, little inclination to thereupon write it down. > She gains the courage of the fatalist Compare Epictetus, or even "Pluggers"? EDIT: for that matter, Cassandra in particular, and the trojan women in general > no comparative analysis of the Mongols and the Comanches I did run across one of these a while back: a blog post, not a book, but still an analytic comparison nonetheless. EDIT2: thinking of my locals: our origin stories are as a hill people (armor doesn't work well when it can't manoeuvre, in the XIII as in chechnya) but somehow we've picked up a hefty memeplex of conflict resolution skills on the way to the present?

082349872349872 2y ago

ὕλημπίλιες: https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-sea-people-by-christina-thompson#footnote-3-93634969 https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-sea-people-by-christina-...

gradschoolfail 2y ago
I guessed when psmiths mentioned Arcadia, they were thinking of the Illyrians.. for the Greeks before PII were a thalassocracy/machy [can we compare sarissa to Swiss pike] And then there were the Habsburgs.. In your locality, are there no (nonplains-derived, eg not Monts+Caps of Ephesus) fairy tales of dynastic feuds? Valleys have always been fertile, livestock abundant ( so that driving term high enough to avert fratricide/eternal war with the eastern barbarians)? Northern thais didnt discover grazing/lactose until 1970s, and then ofc appalachia/scottish notterriblelands [https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Badlands#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Badlands#Etymology] Q: what shape are the castles in Castalia, if Castalia itself is in the form of a tower — ofc i will relate to the general structure of polynesia :) Lowland cogniappe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41725625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41725625 Slavic muxa <-> lowland austrian/schwabian mugge <-/-> (??) maggot
- aebtebeten 2y ago
  At first there were the Habsburgs — "and then there were none". livestock raiding + pikes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_raiding#/media/File:Schwäbischer_Bund_Luzerner_Schilling.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_raiding#/media/File:Sch... (local on local domestic* feuds are well attested, both in legend and in architecture, but very little gets built these days with defensibility as a prime consideration) I'll have to reread, but (having just arisen this morning) even caucasians were known for their feuds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vainakh_tower_architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vainakh_tower_architecture As a prediction before checking the etymology, I'll bet Муха/Mücke goes back all the way to PIE: one of the benefits of sitting around the campfire (attested!) for getting high (attested!) and gossiping about body counts (attested!) is that it tends to discourage insects (is this attested?) RCH as a measurement unit seems to have been derived from a more humanistic tradition, however. * international mixups ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eePHXDl0Pjc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eePHXDl0Pjc ) mostly ended when the poverty did, although I note that just this summer I saw a job posting for international development work that required either small arms certification or the equivalent army service. A colleague in KFOR tried to convince me, around the turn of the century, that vacationing where he'd served was great; I was almost ready to believe him until he started listing the "simple" rules for avoiding likely minefields.
  - gradschoolfail 2y ago
    It does, but imho the interesting part is the usage divergence , mosquito (midge?) vs fly (dialectal vs std german) Thx for the raiding article, all the forexes in one place :) And dont forget the (old) florentine skyscrapers, derived from germanic feuds? (G+G)
    - aebtebeten 2y ago
      true, the good old HRE, which was none of the three... incidentally, while looking for NdBdM's foxes and lions, I ran into something else: when I'd bounced off of Moldbug, there was one thing that seemed to be an actual claim, and not just vibe: that neo-nazis don't ever go around saying that the historical Nazis had just implemented it wrong; they weren't doing true Nazism. At the time, I couldn't think of any counterexamples, but I've recently learned Leo Strauss is one: https://balkin.blogspot.com/2006/07/letter_16.html#:~:text=the%20fact%20that,the%20shabby%20abomination%2e https://balkin.blogspot.com/2006/07/letter_16.html#:~:text=t... It was only 1933, and I only have it in translation, but still: he seems to me to be claiming to intend to argue that the historical Nazis were not behaving according to true "fascist, authoritarian, and imperial principles"?