5:00 Spinoza
6:00 Third Principle of Judaism
7:00 Chopper
15:00 Paganism
The quote "The strong do what they will, the weak suffer what they must" comes from the ancient Greek historian Thucydides, in his work History of the Peloponnesian War. Specifically, it’s from the Melian Dialogue (Book V, Chapter 89), written around 411 BCE. Thucydides doesn’t attribute it to one speaker verbatim but paraphrases it as part of a conversation between Athenian envoys and the leaders of Melos, a small island the Athenians were pressuring to join their empire during the war against Sparta.The context is brutal and pragmatic. The Athenians, flexing their military dominance, argue that power dictates reality—justice only matters between equals, not when one side can crush the other. They tell the Melians to submit or face destruction, since resisting a stronger force is pointless. The Melians, hoping for fairness or Spartan aid, refuse. Spoiler: Athens wipes them out, kills the men, and enslaves the rest. Thucydides uses this to show the raw, unfiltered logic of power politics, not to cheer it on but to lay it bare.He wrote this during a 27-year war that tore Greece apart, reflecting a worldview shaped by chaos and human nature under pressure. Some think he’s channeling a cynical take on imperialism; others see it as a neutral observation of how strength bends morality. It’s stuck around because it’s stark—people still debate if it’s a resigned truth or a critique of might-makes-right.
16:00 It didn't end well for Athens.
17:00 WW1 and WW2 were the 21st century equivalents of the Peloponnesian War. In the same way Athens and Sparta became a province of Rome, Europe has become a province of America.
18:00 Revolution is a natural reaction against injustice.
19:00 Women cannot be expected to lead revolutions.
20:00 Hallucinogenics and King Leonidas
23:00 Alexander the Great
24:00 To go into battle or be peaceful?
26:00 Pagan pantheons
27:00 Thor is the same as Ares.
29:00 Transgenderism
Time machines
30:00 Superman and warlord
31:00 Religion assigns us gender roles.
32:00 Gender roles facilitate marriage and married parenting.
33:00 The blood, sweat and tears of previous generations are what the current generation is resting on.
The nobility of labour, warfare etc.
34:00 Men in offices
36:00 Feminism
37:00 Patriarchy
38:00 The value of men's work
39:00 Women in the workplace
40:00 Warhammer 4000
41:00 Monogamy gives meaning.
42:00 Mass suicide
44:00 Cathedrals
45:00 Posterity and the afterlife
46:00 Hierarchy in a patriarchy
Moral, social and gender equilibrium
48:00 Genius
49:00 Leadership
50:00 Atheism is short termism.
51:00 Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
52:00 Restoring the patriarchy
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