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Just want the truth. Are we witnessing the final fall of Europe? #europe, #europeanunion, #USA, #unitedkingdom, #russia, #ukraine, #nato, #empire, Inspired for this video by the great Spanish historian Fernando Moragon, in one of his lectures on YouTube: 'Europe at War'. Link: https://youtu.be/VNqltVQ_U1w?si=4JH6X... To support the channel reaching more people, please share to other networks, like, leave a comment, subscribe and hit the bell for notifications. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpre... https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/inter... Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com

Multiple interviews in Latin America, Spain, Portugal. Discussion of his works, his philosophy, his life. Awesome! #literature, #josesaramago, #nobelprize, #poverty, #plato'scave, #shoppingmall, #memories, #reason, #blindness, #globalization, #irony, #oldage, To support the channel reaching more people, please share to other networks, like, leave a comment, subscribe and hit the bell for notifications. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpre... / @interpretingtradition / @interpretingtradition https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/inter... Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com

#war, #europe, #corporations, #elites, #russia, #politicalpower, #economicpower, To support the channel reaching more people, please share to other networks, like, leave a comment, subscribe and hit the bell for notifications. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpre... / @interpretingtradition / @interpretingtradition https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/inter... Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5baaWZ6cZJv3uFYFQWHgQ

The great question of our time is whether humanity will remain within states which represent human communities of nations of peoples, who defend their interests and who come together in what we may call a Concert of Nations - a concept which emerged in Europe at the end of the Thirty-Years' War in 1648 with the Treaty of Westphalia, and then in 1815 with the Congress of Vienna, and again in 1945 with the United Nations - each state representing the interests of their nation; or, on the other hand, the current Globalist concept which is currently at work primarily in the West, which consists in fact in undermining the authority of the states, including the US, towards a new Feudalism, but this time in favor of private political and economic powers, leading to a gradual dissolution of nation-states defending their peoples less and less. A new serfdom. #elections, #geopolitics, #democracy, #empire, #ukelections, #workersparty, #independent, To support the channel reaching more people, please share to other networks, like, leave a comment, subscribe and hit the bell for notifications. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpre... / @interpretingtradition / @interpretingtradition https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/inter... Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com

True prophets are wont to ask us to repent for breaking God's Law. That's probably why we always stoned them, because they told the truth whether we liked to hear it or not. Soothsayers, false prophets and politicians are those more likely to ask for revenge. There's a difference, surely, between the True God and the Oracle of Delphi! I find it hard to believe that the True God would ask us to go around killing everything that moves, for example. Just a thought. Speaking of Literature, Poetry, Mythology, I tell here the story of the Fall of Troy: Paris and Helen, Hector and Achilles, King Priam, Soothsayer Calchas. The story comes from Homer's Iliad. The Iliad, however, begins after the Greeks have reached Troy, when Apollo sends the pestilence upon them. It does not mention the sacrifice of Iphigenia, and makes dubious allusion to the Judgement of Paris. Iphigenia's story comes from a play by the 5th century BC Aeschylus, and Agamemnon, and The Judgement of Paris from The Trojan Woman, a play by his contemporary Euripides. #trojanwar, #prophets,#falseprophets, #hector, #achilles, #achilles' heel, #zeus, #olympus, #mythology,#history, #poetry, To support the channel reaching more people, please share to other networks, like, leave a comment, subscribe and hit the bell for notifications. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpre... / @interpretingtradition / @interpretingtradition https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/inter... Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com

"An Essay on Blindness" by José Saramago, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1998. Physical blindness to signify moral blindness and the state of dehumanization at which precipice we seem to have arrived. It is a novel: A pandemic, pandemic of blindness, infectious, starting slowly then reaching the whole society. Everyone is infected. Except one person, a doctor's wife, the only one who can see and who sometimes wishes she was blind too for she has all the responsibility of helping everyone out. An epidemic. Saramago said: "We no longer use reason to defend life; we use it to destroy it". "My purpose was to unmask how rotten inside our society in the West has become". #blindness, #moralblindness, #dehumanization, #personalsuccess,#society, #selfishness, #empathy, #autocracy, #literature, To support the channel reaching more people, please share to other networks, like, leave a comment, subscribe and hit the bell for notifications. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpre... / @interpretingtradition / @interpretingtradition https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/inter... Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5b...

Ceguera física, intelectual, moral. "Ensayo sobre la Ceguera" (José Saramago) "Hay novelas que después de leídas continuarán iluminando túneles en la conciencia, abriendo puertas de habitaciones a las que no nos habíamos asomado pese a estar dentro de nosotros" (Juan José Millas). #ceguera, #literatura, #premionobel, #premionobelliteratura, Una ceguera blanca se expande de manera fulminante. Internados en cuarentena o perdidos por la ciudad, los ciegos deben enfrentarse a lo más primitivo de la especie humana: la voluntad de sobrevivir a cualquier precio. José Saramago, Premio Nobel de Literatura 1998, teje una aterradora parábola acerca del ser humano que encierra lo más sublime y miserable de nosotros mismos. Apoyo al Canal: Compartan en diferentes redes sociales, suscribanse, dejen algun comentario, gusten. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpre... / @interpretingtradition https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/inter... Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com

An overall summary of 2 interviews given by Santiago Cuneo, Argentinian activist, against the ruling classes. #globalization, #globalsouth, #latinamerica, #falklands, #malvinas, #USbases, #antartica, #russia, #china, #BRICS, #Argentina, Interview of Santiago Cuneo for the channel "Geopolitica" with Ariel Umpierrez, link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vq8WdNI0ug Statement by Santiago Cuneo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfQ78HAjvxA To support the channel reaching more people, please share to other networks, like, leave a comment, subscribe and hit the bell for notifications. To support the channel reaching more people, please share to other networks, like, leave a comment, subscribe and hit the bell for notifications. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpre... / @interpretingtradition / @interpretingtradition https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/inter... Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5baaWZ6cZJv3uFYFQWHgQ

The Crimea; the Boer War, The Somme, and many others.... highlights of a century of military incompetence, of costly mishaps and tragic blunders. Are such blunders simple mishaps? Do they happen by accident - as the 'Bloody Fool' Theory has it, or are they inevitable, caused by an incompetence which is itself a result of the requirements of the military system? In this controversial and superb book, Dr Nixon examines these and other mistakes and relates them to the social psychology of military organization and to the personalities of some eminent military commanders. His conclusions are both startling and disturbing. "This book should certainly be compulsory reading wherever future officers are selected or trained, and deserves a very wide readership among psychologists and laymen" - New Society Here I read excerpts from 2 chapters. #war, #psychology, #dissidence, #cognitivedissidence, #Crimea, #Boer, #authoritarian, ##personalitytraits, #authoritariantraits, #Himmler, #mentaldisorders, To support the channel reaching more people, please share to other media outlets, like, leave a comment, subscribe and hit the bell for notifications. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpre... / @interpretingtradition / @interpretingtradition https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/inter... Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5baaWZ6cZJv3uFYFQWHgQ

#politics, #politicalbetrayal, #politicalupdates, #nato, #estonia, #slovakia, #georgia, #salome, #westernleaders, #westernleadership, To support the channel reaching more people, please share to other networks, like, leave a comment, subscribe and hit the bell for notifications. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpre... / @interpretingtradition / @interpretingtradition https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/inter... Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com / @interpretingtradition

"It began losing in 1990, and it has been losing in a downward spiral ever since" so says Sr. Juan Antonio Aguilar, Geopolitics Institute of Spain, interviewed by Sr Ariel Umpierrez, from the YouTube Channel "Geopolitica" from Argentina. I encourage to watch this channel. #ukraine, #legitimacy, #war, #nato, #militaryindustrialcomplex, #warinukraine, #russia, #russo-Ukrainianwar, To support the channel reaching more people, please share to other networks, like, leave a comment, subscribe and hit the bell for notifications. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpre... / @interpretingtradition / @interpretingtradition https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/inter... Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com / @interpretingtradition

Justice, Revenge, Vengeance. We have scientific knowledge to the point of human extinction, and yet we are increasingly judged morally, politically, socially, by algorithms, or computerized knowledge, that leaves intention, that is human agency, unaddressed. Punishment is automatic simply according to act performed. In other words, we are judged as they were 7000 years ago, to the times of 'The Furies' and 'The Fates'. Aeschylus 'The Oresteian Trilogy', 1962 ed. translated by Philip Vellacott. In modern times, the Oresteian trilogy has rightly been accorded a place among the greatest achievements of the human mind, dealing with Justice and its relation to Vengeance and due Retribution in the old religions which, in the West, would move to Acceptance, Repentance, Penance and Forgiveness in true Christianity (Catholic and Orthodox). #justice, #revenge, #vengeance, #law, #verdict, #evidence, #guilt, #oracleofdelphi, #proportionality, #moraljudgement, #thefuries, #fate, #destiny, #morality, #retribution, #moralretribution, #punishment, To help support the channel: Share with other media, like, subscribe, comment https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpretingtra https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/interpretingtraditio https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5baaWZ6cZJv3uFYFQ https://YouTube.com/@interpretingtradition https://rumble.com/user/Interpretingtradition Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com

..their consciences cold with crime". "Honesty praised, but honest men freeze" (Juvenal, 1stc AD., Satire I). Betrayers and Betrayed. #politicalpower, #politics, #abuseofpower, #peoplebetrayed, #blackamericans, #jews #politicalleaders, #politicalbetrayal, To support the channel: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpre... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5baaWZ6cZJv3uFYFQWHgQ https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/inter... Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893, Paris) was a French naturalist writer of short stories and novels who is by general agreement the greatest French short-story writer. #father, #fatherhood, #fatherson, #fathersonrelationship, #fatherbetrayal, #shortstory, #literature Maupassant was the elder of two children. His parents separated when he was 11 years old. Maupassant’s mother, Laure, was the sister of Alfred Le Poittevin, who had been a close friend of Gustave Flaubert, and she herself remained on affectionate terms with the novelist for the rest of his life. Laure sent her son to make Flaubert’s acquaintance in 1867, and when he returned to Paris after the war, she asked Flaubert to keep an eye on him. This was the beginning of the apprenticeship that was the making of Maupassant the writer. Whenever Flaubert was staying in Paris, he used to invite Maupassant to lunch on Sundays, lecture him on prose style, and correct his youthful literary exercises. He also introduced him to some of the leading writers of the time, such as Émile Zola, Ivan Turgenev, Edmond Goncourt, and Henry James. He was famously promiscuous. When Maupassant was in his early 20s, he discovered that he was suffering from syphilis, one of the most frightening and widespread maladies of the age. The fact that his brother died at an early age of the same disease suggests that it might have been congenital. Maupassant was adamant in refusing to undergo treatment, with the result that the disease was to cast a deepening shadow over his mature years and was accentuated by neurasthenia, which had also afflicted his brother. During his apprenticeship with Flaubert, Maupassant published one or two stories under a pseudonym in obscure provincial magazines. The turning point came in April 1880, the month before Flaubert’s death. Maupassant was one of six writers, led by Zola, who each contributed a short story on the Franco-German War to a volume called Les Soirées de Médan. Maupassant’s story, Boule de suif (“Ball of Fat”), was not only by far the best of the six, it is probably the finest story he ever wrote. In it, a prostitute traveling by coach is companionably treated by her fellow French passengers, who are anxious to share her provisions of food, but then a German officer stops the coach and refuses to let it proceed until he has possessed her; the other passengers induce her to satisfy him, and then ostracize her for the rest of the journey. Boule de suif epitomizes Maupassant’s style in its economy and balance. Mature life and works of Guy de Maupassant He records what Maupassant had observed as a child, the little dramas and daily preoccupations of ordinary people. He presents his characters dispassionately, foregoing any personal moral judgment on them but always noting the word, the gesture, or even the reticence that betrays each one’s essential personality, all the while enhancing the effect by describing the physical and social background against which his characters move. Concision, vigour, and the most rigorous economy are the characteristics of his art. A major family crisis occurred in 1888. Maupassant’s brother was a man of minimal intelligence—today one would call it arrested development—and could work at nothing more demanding than nursery gardening. In 1888 he suddenly became violently psychotic, and he died in an asylum in 1889. Maupassant was reduced to despair by his brother’s death; but though his grief was genuine, it cannot have been unconnected with his own advanced case of syphilis. On January 2, 1892, when he was staying near his mother, he tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat. Doctors were summoned, and his mother agreed reluctantly to his commitment. Two days later he was removed, according to some accounts in a straitjacket, to Dr. Blanche’s nursing home in Paris, where he died one month before his 43rd birthday. Maupassant’s work is thoroughly realistic. His characters inhabit a world of material desires and sensual appetites in which lust, greed, and ambition are the driving forces, and any higher feelings are either absent or doomed to cruel disappointment. Because so many of his later stories deal with madness, it has been suggested that Maupassant himself was already mentally disturbed when he wrote them. Yet these stories are perfectly well balanced with no sign of mental disorder. The lucid purity of Maupassant’s French and the precision of his imagery are in fact the two features of his work that most account for its success. By the second half of the 20th century, it was generally recognized that Maupassant’s popularity as a short-story writer had declined and that he was more widely read in the English-speaking countries than in France. This does not detract from his genuine achievement—the invention of a new, high-quality, commercial short story, which has something to offer to all classes of readers. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpretingtra https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/interpretingtraditio

Betrayal of self might be the sign of personal ambition. Fine. That's for you to deal with and settle. But betrayal of 'your own people' 'whence you come', that's double betrayal, that's the betrayal of cowards. #personalbetrayal, #politicalbetrayal, #sellingyoursoul, To support the channel: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpretingtra https://YouTube.com/@interpretingtradition https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5baaWZ6cZJv3uFYFQ https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/interpretingtraditio Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com

On a tombstone: "Here lies Timocreon still after much eating, drinking, and speaking ill of others". Other short excerpts from classic Greek literature. On Death, Birth, Life, Weddings. From Menander (3rdcentury BC): "My son, you do not see how everything that dies, dies by its own corruption: all that injures is within. Rust is the poison of iron; moths of wool; and worms of wood; in you there is a poison most deadly, which has made you sick to death, and makes you still and shall make: envy". #greekliterature, #classicalliterature, #lifeanddeath, #passingaway, #weddings, #epigrams, #literature, Please support the channel. Thank you. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpretingtra https://YouTube.com/@interpretingtradition https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5baaWZ6cZJv3uFYFQ https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/interpretingtraditio Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com

"War is a grave affair of state; it is a place of life and death; a road to survival and extinction; a matter to be pondered carefully". "The Way of War is a Way of Deception: When able, feign inability; when deploying troops, appear not to be; When near, appear far; When far, appear near; Lure with bait; Strike with chaos; If the enemy is angry, disconcert him; If he is weak, stir him with pride; If he is relaxed, hurry him; If his men are harmonious, split them". Is War art or science, or both? Little is known for definite about Sun-Tzu (544-496 B.C) and his life during the Warring States period after the decline of the Zhou dynasty, but his classic "The Art of War" had been one the central works of Chinese literature for 2,500 years. I'm using a translation by John Minford, Penguin Classics, 2002. #theartofwar, #historyofwar, #Sun-Tzu, #chineseliterature, #cautioninwar, #prudenceinwar, https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpretingtra https://YouTube.com/@interpretingtradition https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5baaWZ6cZJv3uFYFQ https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/interpretingtraditio Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com

President Javier Milei of Argentina and his conversion to one particular Denomination of Orthodox Judaism (Chabad Lubavitch), NY. Patagonia. Argentina to be divided? I draw on articles and interviews with Argentinian and Uruguayan scholars as to what's happening in Argentina's domestic policies and its implication for world geo-politics in the long-term. #Israel, #jewishorthodox, #argentinianpresident, #USforeinpolicy, #stateofisrael, #askenazyjews, https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpretingtra https://YouTube.com/@interpretingtradition https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5baaWZ6cZJv3uFYFQ https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/interpretingtraditio Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com Do not use my channel to advertise your professional expertise. This is not a commercial channel. You will be deleted. All other comments by viewers are most welcome. Interpreting Tradition.

Telephone Services, Hollywood attacking Christianity (again!), Lord Chesterfield advice: contempt or confrontation? Telephone Services, Hollywood attacking Christianity (again!), Lord Chesterfield advice: contempt or confrontation? #telephoneservices, #christianity, #antiChristianfilms, https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpretingtra https://YouTube.com/@interpretingtradition https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5baaWZ6cZJv3uFYFQ https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/interpretingtraditio Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com

Germany. Israel. We explore guilt, remorse, shame. Way forward. A story based on the novel "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink (1997). Blurbs: "One of the most successful, one of the richest, one of the most overwhelming novels I have read for a very long time... entirely new and profoundly original" (Jorge Semprun, Le Monde). "Breathtaking... a novel that sucks you in with its power, so that once you start to read, you cannot put it down. Truly exciting" (Focus Munich). "Arresting, philosophically elegant, morally complex" (New York Times). "Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of post-war Germany. When he falls ill on his way home from school, Michael is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover. She enthrals him with her passion, but puzzles him with her odd silences. Then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he's a young law student and Hanna is on trial for a hideous crime. But as he watches her refuse to defend herself, he gradually realizes that his former lover may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder" (George Steiner). ##germany, #camps, #jews, #israel, #punishment, #reconciliation, #forgiveness, #absolution, Thank you for your support https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpretingtra https://YouTube.com/@interpretingtradition https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5baaWZ6cZJv3uFYFQ https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/interpretingtraditio Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com

I'm venting here. Am I the only one who is offended at how customers are being treated with utter disrespect? Share your experiences in the comments. #'airports, #heathrowairportlondon, #charities, #consumers, #citizens, Support the channel https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpre... / @interpretingtradition https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5b... https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/inter... Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com

The quote above is from the historian Lucan (1st century AD) writing about the Fall of the Empire - Rome. "Rome turned the Imperial Sword against her own breast". "Never will loyalty to their country be found among despots". On Voting 'Independent'. #loyalty, #history, #westernleaders, #empire, #fallofRome, #fallofempire, #political decadence, Thank you for your support. Please share. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpretingtra https://YouTube.com/@interpretingtradition https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5baaWZ6cZJv3uFYFQ https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/interpretingtraditio Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com

Meditation on the two most primary loves in our heart: Two directions: Love of God or Love of the World. "Deny yourself, pick up your cross, and follow me". #spiritualretreats, #loveofGod, #loveofself, #conceit, #arrogance, #spirituality, #catholictheology, #catholicmysticism, #spanishmystics, Please share https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpre... / @interpretingtradition https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5b... https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/inter... Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com

Traditional Catholic Teaching. Spiritual Exercises. Time for Reflexion in our days. An Introduction to Catholic Spiritual Exercises. Episode 2: On Love. Readings (by the translator from the original Spanish) from the book "On the Spiritual and Loving Struggle between God and the Soul" by Fray Juan de los Ángeles (1536-1609), Spanish mystic. #christianity, #catholicism, #orthodoxy, #mysticism, #catholic mysticism, #catholictradition, #devotion, #theology, Please share. If you wish to help the channel: Either Press 'Thanks' or https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpre... / @interpretingtradition https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5b... https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/inter... Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com

A Catholic's answer. Time for Reflexion in our days. An Introduction to Catholic Spiritual Exercises. Readings: Introduction. Episode 1: On Arrogance: When people have forgotten God. Readings (by the translator from the original Spanish) from the book "On the Spiritual and Loving Struggle between God and the Soul" by Fray Juan de los Ángeles (1536-1609), Spanish mystic. #christianity, #protestantism, #calvinprotestantism, #catholicism, #orthodoxy, #mysticism, #catholic mysticism, #catholictradition, #protestantevangelism, #evangelism,#humility, #arrogance, #devotion, #theology, Please share. If you wish to help the channel: Either Press 'Thanks' or https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Interpre... / @interpretingtradition https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC5b... https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/inter... Twitter: @InterpretingT Interpretingtradition@gmail.com