INTJ Ethnostate

[tsuruyu]

Roman mosaic excavated at Pompeii, on display at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples

[amntenofre]

lovely cat sleeping in the Sanctuary of the Goddess Isis at Philae (now on the Agilkia island)

[vintage-sweden]

Eva Rydin as Lucia, 1955, Sweden.

[yuji87]

Everyday life in Osaka     https://www.instagram.com/yuji87/

[exegeia]

[seeliequeene]

Santa Casilda (detail) Francisco de Zubaran, 1630

[zerogate]

“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.”

— Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell’s The Life of Samuel Johnson

[m1male2]

Egipto

[tsuruyu]

miss culture-de-debauche

[prettybindings]

Lola, Troubling Self-Portrait, October 2020

[tsuruyu]

Moonlight Wolf - Frederic Remington, 1909

[tsuruyu]

Civilization, as a process, is indistinguishable from diminishing time-preference (or declining concern for the present in comparison to the future). Democracy, which both in theory and evident historical fact accentuates time-preference to the point of convulsive feeding-frenzy, is thus as close to a precise negation of civilization as anything could be, short of instantaneous social collapse into murderous barbarism or zombie apocalypse (which it eventually leads to). As the democratic virus burns through society, painstakingly accumulated habits and attitudes of forward-thinking, prudential, human and industrial investment, are replaced by a sterile, orgiastic consumerism, financial incontinence, and a ‘reality television’ political circus. Tomorrow might belong to the other team, so it’s best to eat it all now

Nick Land, The Dark Enlightenment 

[artfoli]

Nocturne in Black and Gold - The Falling Rocket, 1875, by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

[naokomayumi]

[tsuruyu]

Beauty and violence are often close at hand

[catonhottinroof-deactivated2023]

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 - 1905) 

Visage de femme de profil, étude présumée pour ‘La première discorde’

[clawmarks]

Design from an album of designs for printed textiles - William Kilburn - c.1788-1792 - via The V&A Museum

[funeral]

Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born