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

This paragraph in particular really stuck with me. “...
chartreuse national windowlicker
  02/16/21
link plz
Aphrodisiac Cruise Ship Regret
  03/29/21
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue
chartreuse national windowlicker
  03/29/21
"construction of local forms of community within which ...
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*hair shirted Thomists gather itt*
Bossy Pearly Sanctuary
  02/16/21
this is a second Renaissance
electric love of her life
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just another retard who spent his life inside the ivory towe...
trip harsh stage main people
  02/16/21
Harsh but fair
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After Virtue is 180
topaz low-t dingle berry private investor
  02/16/21
he is 180
Effete Fortuitous Meteor
  02/16/21
That poaster that linked the society decline post 71 graphs ...
chartreuse national windowlicker
  02/16/21
link? what books of his have you read?
Effete Fortuitous Meteor
  02/16/21
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue https://you...
chartreuse national windowlicker
  02/16/21
The visigoths were smarter & more moral than the romans
Bat Shit Crazy Ticket Booth
  02/16/21
Hard to make a distinction by the end.
chartreuse national windowlicker
  02/16/21
only of you're a drunk Roman
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chartreuse national windowlicker
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Lol @ premils
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quit trying to relate the present day situation to ancient h...
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It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between...
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even the most optimistic accounts of american culture / empi...
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citrine soul-stirring church turdskin
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i was in customs once in santo domingo, and some black dude ...
Yellow frum station
  10/07/21
dominicans are unironically natsoc
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every age deals with this and it's the MONASTIC communities ...
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Date: February 16th, 2021 11:21 AM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker

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: Aphrodisiac Cruise Ship Regret

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: chartreuse national windowlicker

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: vivacious obsidian gas station

"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: chartreuse national windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#47493724)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:14 PM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41957356)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:16 PM
Author: lascivious crackhouse selfie



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:16 PM
Author: lilac generalized bond



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:18 PM
Author: Bossy Pearly Sanctuary

*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: electric love of her life

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: trip harsh stage main people

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: chartreuse national windowlicker

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: Bateful nibblets ladyboy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#42335600)



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Dark Frisky Resort Toaster



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Date: June 5th, 2023 10:52 PM
Author: Bateful nibblets ladyboy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#46393680)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:40 PM
Author: topaz low-t dingle berry private investor

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: Effete Fortuitous Meteor

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: chartreuse national windowlicker

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: Effete Fortuitous Meteor

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: chartreuse national windowlicker

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: Bat Shit Crazy Ticket Booth

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: chartreuse national windowlicker

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: marvelous violent famous landscape painting rehab

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: chartreuse national windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41963755)



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Date: February 17th, 2021 7:39 PM
Author: brindle crotch school cafeteria

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: chartreuse national windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#41979325)



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Date: February 20th, 2021 12:03 PM
Author: Effete Fortuitous Meteor



(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: chartreuse national windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#42034897)



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Date: March 18th, 2021 12:02 AM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#42123274)



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Date: March 29th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker



(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: onyx goyim

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: Aphrodisiac Cruise Ship Regret

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: chartreuse national windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#42282143)



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 11:15 AM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#42335581)



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Date: April 30th, 2021 7:19 PM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#42379335)



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Date: October 1st, 2021 12:10 PM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#43206172)



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Date: October 7th, 2021 9:42 AM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#43235648)



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Date: October 7th, 2021 9:48 AM
Author: Yellow frum station

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: citrine soul-stirring church turdskin



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#43235690)



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Date: October 7th, 2021 10:19 AM
Author: Yellow frum station

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: Aphrodisiac Cruise Ship Regret

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: chartreuse national windowlicker

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: chartreuse national windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#43258178)



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Date: October 21st, 2021 1:45 PM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#43308017)



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Date: March 3rd, 2022 7:03 PM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2/#44078593)



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Date: March 4th, 2022 10:32 PM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker



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Date: March 4th, 2022 10:38 PM
Author: Puce galvanic market



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Date: April 21st, 2022 4:47 PM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker



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Date: April 25th, 2022 1:27 PM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker



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Date: June 3rd, 2023 6:48 PM
Author: Pearl Parlor Volcanic Crater



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Date: June 5th, 2023 10:03 PM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker



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Date: June 5th, 2023 11:30 PM
Author: Vigorous lemon chapel

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: chartreuse national windowlicker



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Date: February 27th, 2024 8:32 PM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker



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Date: February 27th, 2024 8:37 PM
Author: Jet-lagged Circlehead



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Date: August 27th, 2024 8:06 PM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker



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Date: July 9th, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: chartreuse national windowlicker



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