>>25176059

No one, not even the artist, lives independently, apart from the surrounding world and nation. Each is intimately bound to his culture and nation, and in each that which is common to all flourishes. The general worldview, of which some are aware of only in a confused way, finds the source of its creative form in the soul of the artist. If the native soil of a nation is a desert waste, the soul of the artist will also be unfruitful. Each great work of art comes from its time and from its nation. It cannot be decreed. If the nation and race are healthy, and if the national passion which affirms the faith and worldview are genuine and alive, then a great national art will also develop. The unfruitful apparatus of boards and government regulations can add but little.

— Eugen Hadamovsky, ‘Propaganda and National Power’

>>25176064
Excellent quote.

But the medieval and early modern english were described by foreigners as lazy and violent.
from the account of Emmanual Van Meteren,
>"The people are not so laborious and industrious as the Netherlanders or French, as they lead for the most part an indolent life...They keep many lazy servants, and also many wild animals for their pleasure, rather than trouble themselves to cultivate the land...The people are bold, courgaeous, ardent and cruel in war, fiery in attack and having little fear of death; they are not vindictive, but very inconstant, vainglorious, light and deceiving, and very suspicious, especially of foreigners, whom they despise."
From Harrison's description of England, written in 1577
>Seldome shall you see anie of my countriemen aboue eighteene or twentie years old to go without a dagger at the least at his backe or by his side. . . . Our nobilitie weare commonlie swoords or rapiers with their daggers, as doth serving man also that followeth his lord and master. Some desperate cutters we have in like sort, which carrie two daggers or two rapiers in a sheath alwaies about them, wherewith in everie dronken fraie they are knowen to worke much mischiefe; their swords and daggers also are of great length, and longer than the like used in any other countrie, whereby ech one pretendeth to have the more advantage of his enimie

Idk about that, Cervantes is a great writer and he came out of the backwards embarrassment of Europe that is Spain, where the women are as hairy as the men, zealous lunatics are treated as philosophers, slop like paella is considered cuisine, and animal cruelty is considered manliness.

>>25176059
If this were the case, how would great cultures and great artists emerge?

Your very Californian "software" metaphor is no good. And "cultures" are not "things" people have in their heads. They are historically concrete traditions. Standards and practices are passed down by traditions and by lineages of teachers. There are no literate people left today because teaching traditions have been deliberately trashed by egalitarians and utilitarians; state schools now teach "skills" for "employability"; private schools now prepare the dimwitted children of Oriental merchants for careers in corporate law.

However, the written record and material heritage, the great artistic examples that survive, also transmit these standards; and practices can be reconstructed. Our situation is not worse than the European early mediaeval predicament. They could recover and ultimately better classical achievement. We can do the same, or ought to believe we can do the same, if only because a life spent trying is better than a life spent mourning the possibility of trying.

If you have talent, seek a good teacher. If there is none, which is most likely, what you need is discipline and reverence for great classic examples.

>>25176118
Good quotes and case in point. The barbarian north became a great centre of arts and science. If they could nurture a small flame back into a great fire, why can't we?

>>25176118
Van Meteren was jealous that the English enjoyed a similar degree of prosperity to the Netherlands by dint of its pasture and wool, rather than overexerting themselves.

Being violent is based.

>>25176443
None of this I disagree with.
It's just if the average 4channer saw people acting like that today they'd call them niggers or white trash.
>To one of us, who may live a lifetime without seeing a man die a violent death, nothing is so difficult to comprehend as the Elizabethan callousness to bloodshed. Life with them was a rough, rude game of broil and turmoil. Every man wore commonly a sword by his side in public. When justice failed the individual did not scruple to take the law into his own hands. Here are a few illustrations taken from the old records, illustrations that show how quick every one was to shed blood upon small provocation.
>"In Notttingham, a man, attacked by another with a stick, drew his knife upon him and stabbed him."
>"In Sussex, a man was pursued by his enemy with a bill till stopped by a garden wall, whereupon he turned and stabbed him with a dagger."
>"In Cornwall one, armed only with a knife, slew his pursuer, armed with a sword, for want of breath to run any farther."
>"And in London itself, in Fleet street, a citizen who was at feud with a neighbour, waited about his door, armed with a sword and buckler. When his enemy at length emerged (by a happy chance similarly armed) he found himself violently attacked; and, being impeded in his retreat by a crowd, faced his enemy and slew him in self-defence."
>No man went abroad without arms ; if it was after nightfall, he was accompanied by servants with arms and torches if he could afford a retinue ; if not, he stayed at home, or walked quickly with his sword drawn. This fair fighting, however, this killing your man in self-defence, was not the only sign of the savagery of the time.
>"A girl named Miriam, in Northamptonshire," an old record tells us, " maid-servant to a farmer, was leading a pair of horses with a harrow, walking in front of them. Her master, who was ploughing in the next field, observing that the harrow progressed slowly, stole behind the horses and suddenly belaboured them ; with the result that the horses and the machine passed over the body of the unfortunate girl, inflicting a horrible death. The provocation pleaded was the lazyness of the girl, a plea that was held sufficient." (Quoted from Hubert Hall.)

>>25176059
>software running on hardware
Terrible. Proving your own point, OP.

Millennials wrote about mainstream culcha in soi prose
Zoomers write about mainstream internet culcha in soi prose

Fax

>>25176497
Do you know what software is?

>>25176507
It is a redditor's analogy.

>>25176509
Tell me what software is. Describe it in detail.

I don't think Russia ever had particularly great culture.

>>25176514
Reddit

>>25176059
Yes, and ENGLAND is the greatest of all

>>25176059
Cope

>>25176317
>And "cultures" are not "things" people have in their heads. They are historically concrete traditions.

They are. Cultures *are* things that people have in their heads. A culture is just a program for doing tasks, passed down by close copying of behavior.

>>25176507
He's right. Cliched and retarded.
>>25176514
He's also right. Reddit tier fluff.
>>25176514
Your narcissism/autism is showing.

>>25176059
I agree. I see more and more race traitors now and people seem to be ok with it. World is fucked.
No racial preservation = no real culture = everything gets shittier.