Marsupial Ape

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My brain got cooked by classical antiquity instead of modern politics in college, so I have a thing or two to say about oligarchy and petty-princes. I've worked in public utilities for over 20 years.

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Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Jul 9

Trump is trying to run America like a Bronze Age palace economy.

A palace economy or redistribution economy!"! is a system of economic organization in which a substantial share of the wealth flows into the control of a centralized administration, the palace, and out from there to the general population. In turn the population may be allowed its own sources of income but relies heavily on the wealth distributed by the palace. It was traditionally justified on the principle that the palace was most capable of distributing wealth efficiently for the benefit of society. 21[3. The temple economy (or temple-state economy) is a similar concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_economy

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Jul 9

The White House finally released the transcript of that 20 minute group phone call all those Republicans had with McConnell.

Black and white archival photo of a early 20th century Spiritualism seance, possibly of cinematic origin.

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Jul 1

Declaring that your race or tribe are the autochthons (born directly from the earth) of a land is an ancient form of propaganda to establish legitimacy.

Extract
Autochthons (autóxPoves), in myth, are figures born literally from the earth, with no human parents.
While the idea of 'mother' Earth is influential here, autochthony is not normally presented as the origin of humanity in general (the story of Deucalion and Pyrrha comes closest to this) but rather serves to make a statement about a particular group of people.
True autochthons (as opposed to the merely earthborn, ynyavais remain in the land where they were born. Thus the autochthonous ancestor, like the founder-figure, expresses and forms the group's sense of its identity, making an implicit claim to superiority over non-autochthonous groups. The Spartoi, the autochthonous 'sown men' of Thebes (1), may at one time have represented a special class in the city, while the autochthon Erichthonius expressed the claim of all Athenians to be the true original inhabitants of Attica. There were probably very many local claims to autochthonous ancestors across the Greek world (Paus. 2. 12. 4 is a typical example. See also PROPAGANDA.

https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/61673/chapter/548510496

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Jun 29

I am your Geriatric Millennial Avuncular Figure, here to remind you that there was a movie that came out in 1990 called "Dick Tracy" and the memes right themselves. If you find this useful, leave a Coors Light at the end of the forest.

Promotional still from the 1990 classic "Dick Tracy", featuring characters with nominative determinative facial features exaggerated by make-up and prothesis. I'm being kind and not including Madonna.

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Jun 18

In Solo. reforms of the Athenian constitution, citizen ship ‘rank’ was based on personal wealth. The ‘pentacosiomedi’ were the highest, the “500 bushel men”, because of their farm’s yearly output. Welcome to the timocracy. Plato says this is this is the last step before aristocracy.

These reforms were known as the Seisachtheia.] Solon's constitution reduced the power of the old
aristocracy by making wealth rather than birth a criterion for holding political positions, a system called timokratia (timocracy). Citizens were also divided based on their land production:
pentacosiomedi mnoi, hippeis, zeugitae, and thetes.

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Jun 13

Like...why does the Declaration of Independence in the Oval Office have a parochet current like it is the Holy of Holies in a temple? Do they close the curtains when they have to violate democracy? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parochet

Side by side views of the replica Declaration of Independence hanging in the Oval Office with it's inexplicable curtains opened and closed.

Parochet on a mobile ark at the Western Wall in Jerusalem

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Jun 6

I don’t know why, but the size difference reminded me of the New 52’s Green Lantern and his boyfriend. The BF is supposed to be a normal 6’ dude of average build.

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Jun 3

Trump if he makes it to the midterms.

The rotting form of the Emperor of Mankind sits upon the Golden Throne in the Sanctum Imperialis at the heart of the Imperial Palace in the 41st Millennium.

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Jun 3

The MAGA trolls were right about using the Emperor of Mankind from 40k to meme Trump, they were just wrong about which era of play.

An illustration of Warhammer 40K’s Emperor of Mankind sitting upon his Golden Throne. He is a comatose, palsied, withered old man kept alive only my his audacious golden armor and throne.

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Jun 1

I’m just happy I can post relevant antique frescoes.

Wrestlers depicted on the Tomb of the Augurs, late 6th century BC, Tarquinia

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· May 30

Nothing new here. Martial homoromantic bisexuality is excellent for unit cohesion.

An attic red figure cup attributed to the Pedieus Painter, depicting erotic scenes. From Greece, 510-500 BCE, now housed at the Louvre Museum in Paris [758x1108]

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· May 27

I'm right there with you and I'd like to mention that medieval isn't nearly as far back as you should go. Trump will have his juicy grappler boys!.

Wrestlers depicted on the Tomb of the Augurs, late 6th century BC, Tarquinia

By Unknown author - etruscan tomb painting, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=55176298

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· May 27

Classists have a term for this kind of king-praising: "ithyphallic hymn". Highlighting is the praise, the rest is Athens having a beef with Thebes.

[63.]G Demochares, then, has said all this about the adulatory spirit and conduct of the Athenians. And Duris the Samian, in the twenty-second book of his Histories, has given the very ithyphallic hymn which they addressed to him - Behold the greatest of the gods and dearest Are come to this city,
For here Demeter and Demetrius are Present in season.
She indeed comes to duly celebrate
The sacred mysteries
Of her most holy daughter-he is present
Joyful and beautiful,
As a god ought to be, with smiling face Showering his blessings round.
How noble does he look! his friends around,
Himself the centre.
E His friends resemble the bright lesser stars, Himself is the sun.
Hail, ever-mighty Poseidon's mightier son;
Hail, son of Aphrodite.
For other gods do at a distance keep, Or have no ears.
Or no existence; and they heed not us - But you are present,
Not made of wood or stone, a genuine god.
We pray to you.
First of all give us peace, O dearest god - For you are lord of peace -
And crush for us yourself, for you've the power, This odious Sphinx;
Which now destroys not Thebes alone, but Greece -
The whole of Greece -
I mean the Actolian, who, like her of old, Sits on a rock,
And tears and crushes all our wretched bodies.
F Nor can we him resist.
For the Actolians plunder all their neighbours;
And now they stretch afar
Their lion hands; but crush them, mighty lord, Or send some Oedipus
Who shall this Sphinx hurl down from off his precipice, Or starve him justly.

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· May 11

I'm just an idea man and ally, but have you ladies considered doing a counter psyop with a "take it turn it" on them and coming up with your own definition of what it means to be a 'trad wife'?

"Why are you Spartan women the only ones who can rule men?"
"Because we are also the only ones who give birth to men."
- Gorgo, Queen of Sparta and wife of Leonidas, as
quoted by Plutarch[1]

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· May 9

Nobody Trump the chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos in Nashville.

Rendition of the chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos by Alan LeQuire (1990), located in the Parthenon's replica, Centennial Park (Nashville)

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· May 8

Hope you guys are ready for your bevel rimmed bowls. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beveled...

Early on, largely based on finds at Uruk, bevelled rim bowls are widely thought to be used for measurement of grain rations (barley, spelt, or emmer wheat). 1OIl! The rations would be given as payment to laborers for services rendered as part of a Corvée labor system. 12]

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Apr 17

I am a fancy armchair antiquarian, thank you. We should only post about our appreciation of art history.

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Apr 17

Yesterday, late evening.

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Apr 15

Remember the good old days when doctors made house calls?

Medieval mural of Christ blasting open the gates of hell, ala "the harrowing of hell". A demon is crushed beneath the sundered door, which is a nice touch.

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Apr 15

I’m taking a jaunt to Wafflehouse, don’t wait up.

Copperplate engraving illustration of St. Francis flying on a cloud.
Copperplate intaglio engraving of St. Francis levitating on a cloud from Emblesmes sacrez sur la vie et miracles de Sainct François: expliquez en verse françois et enrichis de figures et passages d’escritures (N8080 .F81 1637).

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Apr 14

Asclepius is the god of doctors, so of course that’s how a doctor dresses.

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Apr 13

Hegseth has a freakishly Homeric set of martial values and I know he doesn’t read.

• What does Homer count as "good"?
• First, some interesting characteristics of a good person
1. Birth: one must be born into a noble family to be good
2. Wealth: one must be rich to be good
3. Strength: one must be physically fit or have been in one's prime physically fit to be good
• NOTE: not a single one of these is fully in the person's own control
• Least of all the most important one, good birth.
• NOTE: bad behavior does not make one lose these things, and so does not make one bad!
• Consider Paris: he behaves badly, but is not "bad" because of it.
• Now, some other characteristics of a good person
• He is good in battle
• strength (Ajax)
• skill (Odysseus and Achilles)
• courage (Achilles, Hector)
• NOTE: These are things which are more within a person's own control
• He has honor
• Other people's good opinion
• Material goods: trophies, gifts
• 1.126
I want another prize ready for me right away.
I'm not going to be the only Greek without a prize, It wouldn't be right. And you all see where mine is going.
• Inferiors: number of minions = amount of power
• 1.285 (Nestor speaks)
And when I talked in council, they took my advice.
So should you two now: taking advice is a good thing.
Agamemnon, for all your nobility, don't take this girl.
Leave her be: the army originally gave her to him as a prize.
Nor should you, son of Peleus, want to lock horns with a king.
A scepter-holding king has honor beyond the rest of men, Power and glory given by Zeus himself.
You are stronger, and it is a goddess who bore you.
But he is more powerful, since he rules over more...
• Gifts, trophies etc. are given to one by others and are a material measure of something like one's stock market value
• One must respect other people to get their good opinion, because they collectively define these values.
• He is better than others
• Achilles' father sent him "to always be the best and to excel the others"

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Apr 10

Ithyphallic Hymn to Donalon the Magnificent
Come, Donalon, Builder of Marvels!
Come in your golden chariot, surrounded by trumpeters, gleaming like the sun on polished bronze.
You stride forth, hair shining like a lion's mane, your garments bright, your sandals high, and every citizen cries aloud:
"Behold! A wonder has appeared!"
Hail, Donalon, master of walls and markets, whose voice shakes the assembly,
whose hand signs decrees with the speed of thunder.
Where you walk, the streets are swept, where you sleep, guards keep watch, and everywhere the statues of bygone heroes tremble a little, lest they be forgotten.
Not for you the quiet counsel of elders, nor the cautious whisper of scribes; you decree, and the people applaud, for applause is your chosen sacrifice.
Rejoice, citizens! Beat the drums!
Raise high the banners and cry:
"Donalon is present, great among the great, and all shall prosper beneath his glance!"
Yet remember, o festival-goers, make way at the crossroads, for his chariot is very wide, and does not turn easily.

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Apr 8

What is wrong with Hegseth’s brain is the same thing that is wrong with Batman villain Maxie Zeus’ brain.

Still frame from an episode of Batman: The Animated showing Maxie Zeus, a delusional millionaire dressed like Zeus, addresses Batman, a delusional millionaire dressed like a bat.

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Apr 7

I have this whole Jungian spiel about how Hegseth has a sky-god complex, but I realized I can just say "Hegseth is the same kind of crazy as Maxie Zeus, the Batman villain who thought he was Zeus"

A comic panel of the DC Villain Maxie Zeuss. He is a psychopath who dresses up like Zeus but has modern henchmen with guns.

A still of the Batman the Animated Series version of Maxie Zeus. A millionaire who lived in a penthouse who had become convinced he was Zeus. He is about to throw a metal thunderbolt.

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Apr 7

L.A Marzulli explains that demons are the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim.

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Apr 6

This is basically Hegseth's self-image and nukes are the ultimate thunderbolt to throw.

Jupiter and Thetis (1811) by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
"She sank to the ground beside him, put her left arm round his knees, raised her right hand to touch his chin, and so made her petition to the Royal Son of Cronos", Iliad 1.500–502
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_and_Thetis

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Apr 4

I always forget the hashtag. #caturday #calico #blackcat

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Apr 4

You described a Soter King.

In chapter five, the author investigates Hellenistic monarchs called Soteres. She begins by highlighting Gelon and Dion of Syracuse as pre-Hellenistic antecedents for royal Soteres.
However, she identifies Philip II of Macedon as the first living king to receive the Soter as a cult title. She proceeds to analyze Antigonid, Ptolemaic, Seleucid, and Attalid sources before offering svnthetic remarks.
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following noteworthy: applying the title Soter to Hellenistic kings legitimates them as benevolent while diverting attention from their acts of conquest and subordination; the Antigonids used the epithet locally whereas the Ptolemies, who institutionalized the title, used it in a more universal way, and the Seleucids and Attalids evinced both local and universal trends; the use of the title for human rulers in the Hellenistic and Roman imperial eras does not constitute a decline of Greek religion, but continuity.

Marsupial Ape@browwiw· Apr 4

So, these are the kinds of things I notice. Somebody gave the copy of the Constitution in the Oval Office a set of parochet curtains like its the Holy of Holies. What are you doing infront of the Constitution that offends it so badly? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parochet