Northern Levantines are only Semitic in language; they spoke Indo-European for a long period before the Bronze age collapse and AFTER Alexander.
What did we learn from the failed TRUMP experiment? (cont) Someone in office, like a High Priest of Baal, a Patriarch, a doge, a judge, or a mafia don, must observe a certain decorum & a certain ornamental deportment. This holds even more true in a secular democracy. #Lindy Same business, same period, same people
What did I learn from the Trump presidency? No matter your message, your policies, your public, as an executive you must have *some* amount of decorum & abide by the following Roman virtues: + Dignitas + Gravitas + Auctoritas + Iustitia in addition to the main one: Prudentia. How does a statesperson behave? De Gaulle stopped his campaign from revealing embarrassing facts about his rival, then Mitterrand. Why? His answer was that it would weaken the dignity of the French presidency should Mitterrand win the election
Levantine (NorthWest Levantine) is a language. Lebanese is a dialect of it. With the prestige going to the Beiruti & Damascene dialects, each should some day become a language. These things are simply statistical concept: degree of differentiation. What is the distance?
All East-Meds look alike.
It was Sidney Morgenbesser and the original is much much better : yeah yeah
Nationalism: a machinery invented in the “enlightenment” to destroy local cultures, minorities, regional idiosyncracies, multicultural Mediterraneanism, variability, entropy, etc,& necessarily accompanied by STATISM, paternalism, nudgism. Fractal #Localism is not nationalism. Fractal Mediterraneism
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeere the fuck is this?!
COVID REUNIONS The great John Gray was told by a friend that his cat was vegan. “Do you let your cat out?” “Yes”, he answered. So if pple claim they “don’t see anybody”, ask them if they have seen their children. Odds are they did. As in finance, all it takes is one weak link.
Beirut is like a phoenix, its symbol 1) To the right a building harmed by the explosion, to the right entirely fixed. 2) Nothing but activity. A lot of repair. 3) Building entirely fixed, next to it is being fixed. 4) In the process.
