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

This paragraph in particular really stuck with me. “...
mentally impaired stirring ceo
  02/16/21
link plz
sepia crackhouse skinny woman
  03/29/21
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue
mentally impaired stirring ceo
  03/29/21
"construction of local forms of community within which ...
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Crawly quadroon
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*hair shirted Thomists gather itt*
Mint mind-boggling stage pocket flask
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this is a second Renaissance
Racy Coral Associate
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just another retard who spent his life inside the ivory towe...
Passionate indirect expression
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Harsh but fair
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ruby magical mad cow disease principal's office
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ruby magical mad cow disease principal's office
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After Virtue is 180
brilliant abode double fault
  02/16/21
he is 180
frisky glittery box office
  02/16/21
That poaster that linked the society decline post 71 graphs ...
mentally impaired stirring ceo
  02/16/21
link? what books of his have you read?
frisky glittery box office
  02/16/21
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Virtue https://you...
mentally impaired stirring ceo
  02/16/21
The visigoths were smarter & more moral than the romans
poppy beady-eyed corner fortuitous meteor
  02/16/21
Hard to make a distinction by the end.
mentally impaired stirring ceo
  02/16/21
only of you're a drunk Roman
fighting state hairy legs
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mentally impaired stirring ceo
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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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It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between...
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even the most optimistic accounts of american culture / empi...
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Pearly slimy love of her life
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i was in customs once in santo domingo, and some black dude ...
black base
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dominicans are unironically natsoc
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https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSdnESSU-WRTBliI5nWkh_dlW...
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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: mentally impaired stirring 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: sepia crackhouse skinny woman

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: mentally impaired stirring 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: doobsian wonderful idiot step-uncle's house

"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: mentally impaired stirring ceo



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Date: February 16th, 2021 7:14 PM
Author: mentally impaired stirring 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: glassy histrionic gunner



(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: Crawly quadroon



(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: Mint mind-boggling stage pocket flask

*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: Racy Coral Associate

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: Passionate indirect expression

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: mentally impaired stirring 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: ruby magical mad cow disease principal's office



(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: Smoky ticket booth



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Date: June 5th, 2023 10:52 PM
Author: ruby magical mad cow disease principal's office



(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: brilliant abode double fault

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: frisky glittery box office

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: mentally impaired stirring 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: frisky glittery box office

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: mentally impaired stirring 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: poppy beady-eyed corner fortuitous meteor

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: mentally impaired stirring 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: fighting state hairy legs

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: mentally impaired stirring 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: Appetizing green home

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: mentally impaired stirring 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: frisky glittery box office



(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: mentally impaired stirring 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: mentally impaired stirring 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: mentally impaired stirring 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: multi-colored ultramarine karate

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: sepia crackhouse skinny woman

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: mentally impaired stirring ceo



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Date: April 23rd, 2021 11:15 AM
Author: mentally impaired stirring ceo



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Date: April 30th, 2021 7:19 PM
Author: mentally impaired stirring 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: mentally impaired stirring ceo



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Date: October 7th, 2021 9:42 AM
Author: mentally impaired stirring 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: black base

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: Pearly slimy love of her life



(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: black base

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: sepia crackhouse skinny woman

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: mentally impaired stirring 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: mentally impaired stirring ceo



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Date: October 21st, 2021 1:45 PM
Author: mentally impaired stirring ceo



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Date: March 3rd, 2022 7:03 PM
Author: mentally impaired stirring ceo



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Date: March 4th, 2022 10:32 PM
Author: mentally impaired stirring ceo



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Date: March 4th, 2022 10:38 PM
Author: grizzly trailer park



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Date: April 21st, 2022 4:47 PM
Author: mentally impaired stirring ceo



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Date: April 25th, 2022 1:27 PM
Author: mentally impaired stirring ceo



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Date: June 3rd, 2023 6:48 PM
Author: light electric furnace



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Date: June 5th, 2023 10:03 PM
Author: mentally impaired stirring ceo



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Date: June 5th, 2023 11:30 PM
Author: bat shit crazy demanding therapy gas station

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: mentally impaired stirring ceo



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Date: February 27th, 2024 8:32 PM
Author: mentally impaired stirring ceo



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Date: February 27th, 2024 8:37 PM
Author: Mischievous nofapping sanctuary



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Date: August 27th, 2024 8:06 PM
Author: mentally impaired stirring ceo



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Date: July 9th, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: mentally impaired stirring ceo



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



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