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Bret Slowak (retardstrength@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 08:41:30 JST 
Bret Slowak
He counts Jews, Arabs, Iranians, probably all middle easterners, as belonging to a similiar "Arab" cultural category, and the symbol he ascribes to them is "the Cave" -something about this world as a dark, inscrutably mystical place, hence their obsession with magic spells etc, illuminated by a little opening of heavenly light above. These symbols in themselves aren't magical or weird, consider how a symbol like "the Frontier" could be seen as a driving force in American culture. -
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Bret Slowak (retardstrength@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 08:41:28 JST
Bret Slowak
I don't think the two are mutually exclusive opposites, as the symbol is a cultural thing pointing to the living conditions of a certain culture, like the vast unexplored territory for the young American nation. It's there in reality and the symbol in their minds inform how they develop. Perhaps he would say that if Western man just sees it as logically deducible, that is an expression of typical Western thinking and other races might not see it that way.
The Russians, he says, have this symbol of the vast Plain surrounding them, and geopolitical thinkers today often say something similar: Russia is dangerous because they are always worried about being invaded, and they feel a need to secure land around them.
It was some years ago I read it so it's not like my opinion is very well informed. It's the kind of "total" system a lonely thinker constructs in his room, it can be interesting. If there is anything specifically Jewish about it, perhaps it is just that other jewish persons sometimes have constructed their own cosmologies like Marxism.
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