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

This paragraph in particular really stuck with me. “...
self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad
  02/16/21
link plz
Glittery Area
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue
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"construction of local forms of community within which ...
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vigorous alcoholic halford
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*hair shirted Thomists gather itt*
godawful dopamine
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this is a second Renaissance
crusty space brethren
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just another retard who spent his life inside the ivory towe...
startled travel guidebook
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Harsh but fair
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After Virtue is 180
sooty azn
  02/16/21
he is 180
walnut address roast beef
  02/16/21
That poaster that linked the society decline post 71 graphs ...
self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad
  02/16/21
link? what books of his have you read?
walnut address roast beef
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue https://you...
self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad
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The visigoths were smarter & more moral than the romans
shimmering twisted house
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Hard to make a distinction by the end.
self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad
  02/16/21
only of you're a drunk Roman
charismatic community account
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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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Glittery Area
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even the most optimistic accounts of american culture / empi...
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Thriller metal pit
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i was in customs once in santo domingo, and some black dude ...
Geriatric Gas Station
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dominicans are unironically natsoc
Glittery Area
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every age deals with this and it's the MONASTIC communities ...
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Date: February 16th, 2021 11:21 AM
Author: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad

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: Glittery Area

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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad

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: Titillating fiercely-loyal dilemma

"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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



(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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



(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: ungodly hairraiser goal in life box office



(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: vigorous alcoholic halford



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#41957369)



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:18 PM
Author: godawful dopamine

*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: crusty space brethren

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: startled travel guidebook

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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad

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: Arousing Sexy Rehab Water Buffalo



(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: Peach factory reset button weed whacker



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Date: June 5th, 2023 10:52 PM
Author: Arousing Sexy Rehab Water Buffalo



(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: sooty azn

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: walnut address roast beef

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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad

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: walnut address roast beef

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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad

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: shimmering twisted house

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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad

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: charismatic community account

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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



(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: Flatulent Step-uncle's House Blood Rage

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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



(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: walnut address roast beef



(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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



(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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



(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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



(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: cruel-hearted high-end station

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: Glittery Area

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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



(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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



(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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



(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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



(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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



(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: Geriatric Gas Station

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: Thriller metal pit



(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: Geriatric Gas Station

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: Glittery Area

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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad

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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#43258178)



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Date: October 21st, 2021 1:45 PM
Author: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#43308017)



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Date: March 3rd, 2022 7:03 PM
Author: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



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Date: March 4th, 2022 10:32 PM
Author: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



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Date: March 4th, 2022 10:38 PM
Author: rose deranged center mad cow disease



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Date: April 21st, 2022 4:47 PM
Author: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4767241&forum_id=2#44380126)



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Date: April 25th, 2022 1:27 PM
Author: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



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Date: June 3rd, 2023 6:48 PM
Author: Mint Ceo Theatre



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Date: June 5th, 2023 10:03 PM
Author: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



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Date: June 5th, 2023 11:30 PM
Author: red nighttime tanning salon boistinker

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: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



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Date: February 27th, 2024 8:32 PM
Author: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



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Date: February 27th, 2024 8:37 PM
Author: sable incel



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Date: August 27th, 2024 8:06 PM
Author: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



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Date: July 9th, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: self-absorbed exhilarant parlour police squad



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Date: October 21st, 2026 1:49 PM
Author: gibberish (?)



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