AC is not bound to be historically accurate. “the game will ‘desyncronize’ you (meaning produce a game over) if your character kills civilians, including if, while raiding a monastery, you kill the monks. You are a viking (one thing they… Read More »Collections: Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate Implications
Quite the opposite. Soft version of 1984.
Reactionizm is the norm in history. “Today, however, billions of people have lost that faith in progress as a source of meaning and are flocking to its opposite. In the 21st century, traditionalism has emerged as a catalytic school of… Read More »History Is Running Backwards
We aren’t the first or the last civilization. “Civilisations are material systems organised around energy. Their scale, complexity, and population reflect how much energy is available and how it is structured. When the energy available can no longer sustain that… Read More »The World Isn’t Ending. It’s Stopping Working.
Institutions usually help the weakest the most. “Towns and villages turned inward (often to local strong men) to protect themselves from chaos. This isolation forced each small community to rely on its own resources and customs, most went back to… Read More »Civilization Is Not the Default. Violence Is.
This was like reading Slovak dissidents from before communism fell. “People get the government they deserve—this is the crux of China’s problems. Overthrowing the Communist dictatorship is only a technical issue. Though “ruling the country by law” has long been… Read More »Struggle Against the Gods – First Things
Reading literally changes how we see the world. “Eventually, after repeated prodding, he said that while he’d never personally been to Siberia, ‘Tadzhibai-aka who died last year was there. He said that there were bears there, but he didn’t say… Read More »Reading is magic
Do we have any say in history? “The self you experience as yourself—the deliberate, choosing, narrating self—is not the primary phenomenon. It is a secondary formation, a surface effect produced by deeper processes. Your desires, your fears, your loves, your… Read More »Fate, Structure, Mimesis
And leads to strange results.
Usually we deceive ourselves. “We are systematically deceived — not primarily by external temptation but by our own affections, which dress themselves as reasons.” https://tantaman.com/2026-04-06-jesuit-formation.html