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blog: ‘Glory is great,’ ‘life has no inherent value,’ ‘the lesser yields to the greater,’ ‘we should abandon the atavistic mammalian moral atrocity of K-selection [having fewer really expensive children] towards r-selection [having lots of cheap expendable children],’ and if I’m remembering correctly there’s something in there about how human meaning comes from existential conflict…

…does @kontextmaschine wish he were an officer that died in battle during World War I? 🤔

He also writes,

I am, of course, a proper pagan, with proper pagan morality, if someone places themselves In uncompensated service to me and my interests I take it as a testament they are beneath me; in contrast to the extent they use and expend me towards ends of their choosing they are my superior

He could have an entire platoon of dudes that have to do what he says, in an environment where death is almost a certainty, and so can be treated casually, and grudgingly respect only the dude that attempts mutiny (right before shooting him).  He could have a young wife and an environment where not much can be done about disease.

And then die gloriously in battle on behalf of powerful interests - uninterested in his survival except as a single digit integer on a ledger - engaged in a protracted conflict that wasted enormous amounts of men and material and created an environment so dismal it baked Adolf Hitler.

Oh also one of his most beloved experiences of the war was watching a troop of soldiers who had refused to attack uphill into death be decimated.

He didn’t have a wife (or rather he did, and as ruler of Fiume granted himself a divorce) and took countesses and famous actresses as lovers. Clear femdom thing, too.