#historical evolution

[kashmirthread]

Historical Evolution of Kashmir Thread in Craft Traditions

The journey of Kashmir Thread reflects the historical evolution of Kashmiri textile traditions. Originally, thread used in regional embroidery was spun and dyed by hand, often using natural resources like saffron, indigo, and walnut husk. Over time, Kashmir Thread became synonymous with tilla, sozni, and aari work, embedding itself into the cultural fabric of the valley. Its role extended beyond aesthetics, representing social status, cultural identity, and ceremonial significance. During the Mughal era, Kashmir Thread embroidery flourished as it was embraced by royalty and nobility. Later, it adapted to modern fashion needs while retaining its authenticity. Today, Kashmir Thread serves as a cultural marker, reminding us of the ways crafts survive and evolve through history.

[the-funtime-autocrat]

Those in power will not necessarily remain there indefinitely. They will likely face challenges, and indeed some of their troubles could arise from their recent successes. The continued influx of uneducated, low-skill immigrants from the Third World, the increasing costs of social programs, the tensions created by multicultural politics, and the seething dissatisfaction of what the French call 'peripheral populations' all spell long-term difficulties for the ruling classes.

Paul Gottfried, “Antifascism: The Course Of A Crusade” (2021).

[the-funtime-autocrat]

Critical analysis of fascist actors in interwar Europe gave way to a novel enterprise. Fascism became, among others things, the favored term of political scolds and those who sought to trample on the historical liberties of those who offended them.

Paul Gottfried, “Antifascism: The Course Of A Crusade” (2021).

[the-funtime-autocrat]

If anything does emerge from the complexity of current shifts, it is the realization that cultures cannot be shaped or determined by any single hand or determining factor. Even conceptions of change have changed. Revolution has been revolutionized.

Sadie Plant, “Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture” (1997).

[the-funtime-autocrat]

Abandoned by the economic power and social privilege which once made them attractive, even necessary, mates, the sperm counts fell, birth rates crashed, and the hormonal energy and muscular strength which once served them well were now becoming liabilities. Women were becoming mothers on their own terms, nor not at all. Heterosexual relations were losing their viability, queer connections were flourishing, the carnival had begun for paraphilias and so-called perversions, and if there was more than one sex to have, there were also more than two to be. Anything claiming to be normal had become peculiar.

Sadie Plant, “Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture” (1997).

[the-funtime-autocrat]

Bear in mind that history has always been characterized by pendular and proportional re-establishment of values, covering the same distance on the right as it has on the left. We shall thus soon enter a world in which order will be equally proportional to the disorder and chaos that reign today. Indeed, the further a situation develops in one direction, the stronger the counterreaction.

Guillaume Faye, “Prelude To War.”

[the-funtime-autocrat]

The revolutionary idea is a theory or a doctrine (as far as possible, coherent and in principle universal -- that is to say, allowing all concrete cases to be 'deduced'), which can and must generate the action that transforms the political present and creates the political future.

Alexandre Kojève, “The Notion Of Authority” (1942/2014).

[the-funtime-autocrat]

But the Future separated from the Present is a pure abstraction deprived of any metaphysical 'substance.' And this translated, on the level of human and political existence, as the fact that the Authority of the Leader, isolated from that of the Master, takes a 'utopian' character: the legislation that is separated from its execution constructs a 'Utopia' with no ties with the Present (that is to say, reality), which subsequently fails to come true (that is to say, it fails to remain in force in the Present), and it drags along with it in its downfall the Authority that has produced it, and with it, the State itself in its 'separated' form.

Alexandre Kojève, “The Notion Of Authority” (1942/2014).