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Alasdair MacIntyre: “the new dark ages which are already upon us”

This paragraph in particular really stuck with me. “...
Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo
  02/16/21
link plz
stirring seedy menage
  03/29/21
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue
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"construction of local forms of community within which ...
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*hair shirted Thomists gather itt*
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this is a second Renaissance
Aromatic Deep Theatre Legal Warrant
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just another retard who spent his life inside the ivory towe...
bespoke becky
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Harsh but fair
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After Virtue is 180
citrine locus indirect expression
  02/16/21
he is 180
Wonderful regret
  02/16/21
That poaster that linked the society decline post 71 graphs ...
Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo
  02/16/21
link? what books of his have you read?
Wonderful regret
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue https://you...
Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo
  02/16/21
The visigoths were smarter & more moral than the romans
spruce alcoholic gas station
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Hard to make a distinction by the end.
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  02/16/21
only of you're a drunk Roman
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Lol @ premils
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quit trying to relate the present day situation to ancient h...
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even the most optimistic accounts of american culture / empi...
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i was in customs once in santo domingo, and some black dude ...
Opaque pervert
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dominicans are unironically natsoc
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Date: February 16th, 2021 11:21 AM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo

This paragraph in particular really stuck with me.

“A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves to achieve instead often not recognizing fully what they were doing—was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming ages of barbarism and darkness. If my account of our moral condition is correct, we ought also to conclude that for some time now we too have reached that turning point. What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41954317)



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Date: March 29th, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: stirring seedy menage

link plz

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#42183785)



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Date: March 29th, 2021 12:31 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#42183802)



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Date: October 11th, 2021 11:14 PM
Author: Violent temple

"construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained"

move to the sticks and make good with everyone you can.

sounds good to me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#43258556)



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Date: March 14th, 2024 2:35 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#47493724)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:14 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41957356)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:16 PM
Author: Ebony Appetizing Stock Car Fat Ankles



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41957366)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:16 PM
Author: Chrome house-broken puppy



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:18 PM
Author: Frum concupiscible forum sweet tailpipe

*hair shirted Thomists gather itt*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41957375)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:26 PM
Author: Aromatic Deep Theatre Legal Warrant

this is a second Renaissance

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41957423)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:28 PM
Author: bespoke becky

just another retard who spent his life inside the ivory tower reading classical bullshit and seeing vandals and visigoths everywhere when he ventures outside the campus. charles taylor is tcr communitarian

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41957439)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 8:30 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo

Harsh but fair

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41957810)



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 11:18 AM
Author: Supple stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#42335600)



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 12:28 PM
Author: Adulterous coldplay fan



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#42336156)



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Date: June 5th, 2023 10:52 PM
Author: Supple stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#46393680)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:40 PM
Author: citrine locus indirect expression

After Virtue is 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41957508)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 8:31 PM
Author: Wonderful regret

he is 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41957816)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 8:34 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo

That poaster that linked the society decline post 71 graphs really drove home the point.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41957825)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 8:50 PM
Author: Wonderful regret

link?

what books of his have you read?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41957902)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 9:55 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue

https://youtu.be/7_ssRpso9e8?t=2626

This little snippet really drives it home though and makes the leap from seemingly magical tech to us being in a full fledge culture extinction.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41958239)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 8:44 PM
Author: spruce alcoholic gas station

The visigoths were smarter & more moral than the romans

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41957873)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 8:46 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo

Hard to make a distinction by the end.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41957881)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 9:37 PM
Author: sexy station

only of you're a drunk Roman

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41958115)



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Date: February 17th, 2021 7:38 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41963755)



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Date: February 17th, 2021 7:39 PM
Author: Vigorous Rehab

Lol @ premils

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41963758)



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Date: February 20th, 2021 11:50 AM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41979325)



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Date: February 20th, 2021 12:03 PM
Author: Wonderful regret



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41979396)



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Date: March 2nd, 2021 12:19 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#42034897)



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Date: March 18th, 2021 12:02 AM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#42123274)



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Date: March 29th, 2021 12:26 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#42183777)



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Date: March 29th, 2021 12:27 PM
Author: Claret at-the-ready public bath boltzmann

quit trying to relate the present day situation to ancient history...it's not the same

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#42183780)



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Date: October 21st, 2021 1:48 PM
Author: stirring seedy menage

It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those which have been drawn between our own age in Europe and North America and the epoch in which the Roman empire declined into the Dark Ages. Nonetheless certain parallels there are. A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves to achieve instead–often not recognizing fully what they were doing–was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming ages of barbarism and darkness. If my account of our moral condition, we ought also to conclude that for some time now we too have reached that turning point. What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us. And if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without grounds for hope. This time, however, the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#43308041)



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Date: April 14th, 2021 10:16 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#42282143)



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 11:15 AM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#42335581)



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Date: April 30th, 2021 7:19 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#42379335)



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Date: October 1st, 2021 12:10 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#43206172)



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Date: October 7th, 2021 9:42 AM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#43235648)



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Date: October 7th, 2021 9:48 AM
Author: Opaque pervert

even the most optimistic accounts of american culture / empire now have to admit that there is, by any description, no shared purpose. all the "good" things that can happen these days are things that would benefit you or your family. Get comparatively rich, get a better job, etc. No one even considers benefits to the community or "America". And sure as shit no one will accept personal detriment for America's improvement.

This has to be a clear sign that it's over. Im reminded of those videos of Army doods all saying "lol fuck the Army, my recruiter lied, this sucks", rating it as they would a job or college. Imagine asking enlisted men to consider their lives as contributing to America's glory

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#43235671)



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Date: October 7th, 2021 9:53 AM
Author: Bateful walnut area faggot firefighter



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#43235690)



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Date: October 7th, 2021 10:19 AM
Author: Opaque pervert

i was in customs once in santo domingo, and some black dude got pulled out of line. "are you dominican?" they asked him

The dude got all worked up, "me?! Dominican as fuck! Pure blood. Dominican to my core!" etc

Tried to imagine someone being so insulted and prideful about being american, lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#43235780)



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Date: August 27th, 2024 8:12 PM
Author: stirring seedy menage

dominicans are unironically natsoc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#48015989)



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Date: October 7th, 2021 10:29 AM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSdnESSU-WRTBliI5nWkh_dlW_H3tOaxC

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#43235846)



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Date: October 11th, 2021 9:55 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



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Date: October 21st, 2021 1:45 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



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Date: March 3rd, 2022 7:03 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



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Date: March 4th, 2022 10:32 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



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Date: March 4th, 2022 10:38 PM
Author: Avocado Marvelous Locale Blood Rage



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Date: April 21st, 2022 4:47 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



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Date: April 25th, 2022 1:27 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



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Date: June 3rd, 2023 6:48 PM
Author: translucent charismatic community account



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Date: June 5th, 2023 10:03 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



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Date: June 5th, 2023 11:30 PM
Author: Electric spot

every age deals with this and it's the MONASTIC communities who carry the flame when the wheels come off.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#46393785)



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Date: November 7th, 2023 8:33 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



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Date: February 27th, 2024 8:32 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



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Date: February 27th, 2024 8:37 PM
Author: Trip House Reading Party



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Date: August 27th, 2024 8:06 PM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



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Date: July 9th, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: Lascivious Crystalline Chapel Ceo



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