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Alasdair MacIntyre: “the new dark ages which are already upon us”

This paragraph in particular really stuck with me. “...
Crystalline rehab
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link plz
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue
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*hair shirted Thomists gather itt*
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this is a second Renaissance
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just another retard who spent his life inside the ivory towe...
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Harsh but fair
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After Virtue is 180
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he is 180
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That poaster that linked the society decline post 71 graphs ...
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link? what books of his have you read?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue https://you...
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The visigoths were smarter & more moral than the romans
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Hard to make a distinction by the end.
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only of you're a drunk Roman
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Date: February 16th, 2021 11:21 AM
Author: Crystalline rehab

This paragraph in particular really stuck with me.

“A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves to achieve instead often not recognizing fully what they were doing—was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming ages of barbarism and darkness. If my account of our moral condition is correct, we ought also to conclude that for some time now we too have reached that turning point. What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41954317)



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Date: March 29th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: offensive fanboi dysfunction

link plz

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#42183785)



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Date: March 29th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#42183802)



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Date: October 11th, 2021 11:14 PM
Author: curious pungent resort

"construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained"

move to the sticks and make good with everyone you can.

sounds good to me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#43258556)



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Date: March 14th, 2024 2:35 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:14 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:16 PM
Author: chrome blood rage



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:16 PM
Author: Soul-stirring filthpig



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:18 PM
Author: Cracking goal in life trailer park

*hair shirted Thomists gather itt*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41957375)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:26 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle bawdyhouse

this is a second Renaissance

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41957423)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:28 PM
Author: Big lavender step-uncle's house shitlib

just another retard who spent his life inside the ivory tower reading classical bullshit and seeing vandals and visigoths everywhere when he ventures outside the campus. charles taylor is tcr communitarian

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41957439)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 8:30 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab

Harsh but fair

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41957810)



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 11:18 AM
Author: Wonderful clown office



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: insecure stage codepig



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Date: June 5th, 2023 10:52 PM
Author: Wonderful clown office



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:40 PM
Author: Concupiscible drab degenerate

After Virtue is 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41957508)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 8:31 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal abode

he is 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41957816)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 8:34 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab

That poaster that linked the society decline post 71 graphs really drove home the point.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41957825)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 8:50 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal abode

link?

what books of his have you read?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41957902)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 9:55 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue

https://youtu.be/7_ssRpso9e8?t=2626

This little snippet really drives it home though and makes the leap from seemingly magical tech to us being in a full fledge culture extinction.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41958239)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 8:44 PM
Author: Buff university

The visigoths were smarter & more moral than the romans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41957873)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 8:46 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab

Hard to make a distinction by the end.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41957881)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 9:37 PM
Author: histrionic know-it-all location

only of you're a drunk Roman

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41958115)



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Date: February 17th, 2021 7:38 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: February 17th, 2021 7:39 PM
Author: bistre piazza elastic band

Lol @ premils

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41963758)



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Date: February 20th, 2021 11:50 AM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: February 20th, 2021 12:03 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal abode



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41979396)



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Date: March 2nd, 2021 12:19 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: March 18th, 2021 12:02 AM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: March 29th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#42183777)



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Date: March 29th, 2021 12:27 PM
Author: canary hideous address

quit trying to relate the present day situation to ancient history...it's not the same

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#42183780)



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Date: October 21st, 2021 1:48 PM
Author: offensive fanboi dysfunction

It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those which have been drawn between our own age in Europe and North America and the epoch in which the Roman empire declined into the Dark Ages. Nonetheless certain parallels there are. A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves to achieve instead–often not recognizing fully what they were doing–was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming ages of barbarism and darkness. If my account of our moral condition, we ought also to conclude that for some time now we too have reached that turning point. What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without grounds for hope. This time, however, the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#43308041)



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Date: April 14th, 2021 10:16 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 11:15 AM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: April 30th, 2021 7:19 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: October 1st, 2021 12:10 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: October 7th, 2021 9:42 AM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: October 7th, 2021 9:48 AM
Author: Appetizing chad site

even the most optimistic accounts of american culture / empire now have to admit that there is, by any description, no shared purpose. all the "good" things that can happen these days are things that would benefit you or your family. Get comparatively rich, get a better job, etc. No one even considers benefits to the community or "America". And sure as shit no one will accept personal detriment for America's improvement.

This has to be a clear sign that it's over. Im reminded of those videos of Army doods all saying "lol fuck the Army, my recruiter lied, this sucks", rating it as they would a job or college. Imagine asking enlisted men to consider their lives as contributing to America's glory

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#43235671)



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Date: October 7th, 2021 9:53 AM
Author: Vibrant Insane Genital Piercing Ape



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Date: October 7th, 2021 10:19 AM
Author: Appetizing chad site

i was in customs once in santo domingo, and some black dude got pulled out of line. "are you dominican?" they asked him

The dude got all worked up, "me?! Dominican as fuck! Pure blood. Dominican to my core!" etc

Tried to imagine someone being so insulted and prideful about being american, lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#43235780)



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Date: August 27th, 2024 8:12 PM
Author: offensive fanboi dysfunction

dominicans are unironically natsoc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#48015989)



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Date: October 7th, 2021 10:29 AM
Author: Crystalline rehab

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSdnESSU-WRTBliI5nWkh_dlW_H3tOaxC

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#43235846)



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Date: October 11th, 2021 9:55 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: October 21st, 2021 1:45 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: March 3rd, 2022 7:03 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: March 4th, 2022 10:32 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: March 4th, 2022 10:38 PM
Author: Mind-boggling parlour dingle berry



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Date: April 21st, 2022 4:47 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: April 25th, 2022 1:27 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: June 3rd, 2023 6:48 PM
Author: Aphrodisiac Tanning Salon



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Date: June 5th, 2023 10:03 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: June 5th, 2023 11:30 PM
Author: rusted dog poop old irish cottage

every age deals with this and it's the MONASTIC communities who carry the flame when the wheels come off.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#46393785)



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Date: November 7th, 2023 8:33 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: February 27th, 2024 8:32 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: February 27th, 2024 8:37 PM
Author: Ivory Multi-colored Stage



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Date: August 27th, 2024 8:06 PM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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Date: July 9th, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: Crystalline rehab



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