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“If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos…”

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Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great, born in July 356 BC and died in June 323 BC, was a renowned military commander and politician in ancient Greece. Through a series of conquests, he established the vast Alexander Empire, which spread Greek culture to the East and had a profound impact on the world. more

“The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who seem to us to be the most “savage” or “barbarous” of their representatives, we merely adopt one of their own characteristic attitudes. The barbarian is, first and foremost, the man who believes in barbarism.”

Culture Anthropology Barbarism Cultural Differences Savagery Savage Barbarian Cultural Relativism Ethnocentrism

Book:Race et histoire

Source: Race et histoire

“I don't believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age”

Fantasy Comedy Parody Barbarian Amazons

Book:Confessions of a Virgin Sacrifice

Source: Confessions of a Virgin Sacrifice

“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the vandal, the status denier, the iconoclast, who refuses to acknowledge any ranking rules or hierarchy. Whoever wishes to understand the twentieth century must always keep the barbaric factor in view. Precisely in more recent modernity, it was and still is typical to allow an alliance between barbarism and success before a large audience, initially more in the form of insensitive imperialism, and today in the costumes of that invasive vulgarity which advances into virtually all areas through the vehicle of popular culture. That the barbaric position in twentieth-century Europe was even considered the way forward among the purveyors of high culture for a time, extending to a messianism of uneducatedness, indeed the utopia of a new beginning on the clean slate of ignorance, illustrates the extent of the civilizatory crisis this continent has gone through in the last century and a half - including the cultural revolution downwards, which runs through the twentieth century in our climes and casts its shadow ahead onto the twenty-first.”

Ignorance Civilization 21st Century 20th Century Vulgar Twentieth Century Barbarism Vulgarity Barbaric Barbarian Iconoclast Vandal

Author:Peter Sloterdijk

“You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body.”