Boa Ostara

Sol-monath dici potest mensis placentarum, quas in eo diis suis oflerebant; Rhed-monath a dea illorum Rheda, cui in illo sacrificabant, nominatur; Eostur-monath, qui nunc paschalis mensis interpretatur, quondam a dea illorum quae Eostre vocabatur, et cui in illo festa celebrabant, nomen habuit, a cujus nomine nunc paschale tempuscognominant; consueto antiquae observationis vocabulo gaudia novae
solemnitatis vocantes.



















Eosturmonath has a name which is now translated "Paschal month", and which was once called after a goddess of theirs named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month. Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance.'

the mother frog has a massive explosion of eggs and then leaves them to their fate.

Failure

I've worked hard all my life
Money slips through my hands
My face in the mirror tells me
It's no surprise that I'm
Pushing the stone up the hill
of failure

They tempt me with violence
They punish me with ideals
And they crush me with an image of my
life that's nothing but unreal
Except on the goddamned slaveship
of failure

I'll drown here trying
to get up for some air
But each time I think I breathe
I'm laid on with a double share
of the punishing burden
of failure

I don't deserve to be down here
But I'll never leave
And I've learned one thing
You can't escape the beast
In the null and void pit
of failure

When I get my hands on some money
I'll kiss it's green skin
And I'll ask it's dirty face
"Where the hell have you been?"
"I am the fuel that fires the engine
of failure."

I'll be old and broken down
I'll forget who and where I am
I'll be senile or forgotten
But I'll remember and understand
You can bank your hard-earned money
on failure

I saw my father crying
I saw my mother break her hand
On a wall that wouldn't weep
But that certainly held in
The mechanical moans of a dying man
Who was a failure

Inequality

When the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, when inequality grows, interclass cohesion decreases, causing a crisis that may lead to the collapse of the empire. Most empire collapse not because of external aggression but for internal reasons.

in Peter Turchin: "War and Peace and War" (2006)

Counter Nature

Without some totally revolutionary change in man’s attitude towards the mind, even his very tenure of the earth may come to be threatened...after all man will prove but one more of nature’s failures, ignominiously to be swept from her work-table to make way for another venture of her tireless curiosity and patience









































































































































































The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power as Calvin and Hegel and Marx. Guided by these master hands the intellect has shown itself more deadly than cholera or bubonic plague and far more cruel.






















Text:
Trotter, W. (1916) Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War, p.65
Photos:
Nikola Tamindzic