[F]ar from advancing toward tolerance for all, Western civilization is being overrun by an aggressive and intolerant monoculture. - Curtis Yarvin

a foreign traveler in 1864 […] asked some random American to explain the war. "It's the conquest of America by Massachusetts," was the answer. Massachusetts, of course, later went on to conquer first Europe and then the entire planet, the views of whose elites as of 2007 bear a surprisingly coincidental resemblance to those held at Harvard in 1945.

Stability is much underappreciated, especially by those who enjoy its benefits.

The [British] Empire had to die not because it didn't work, but because it worked too well. The quality of imperial rule was starting to present evidence against democracy herself.