The Blessing of Dying Young - The Example of Kleobis and Biton

He whom the gods love dies young

Menander

 

 "In the story, Solon tells of how these Argive brothers took their mother named Cydippe, a priestess at the temple of Hera, to a festival for the goddess to be held in town. When their mother's oxen could not be found, the brothers yoked themselves to their mother's cart and drove her the six miles to the temple. Having arrived at the festival, the mother prayed for Hera to bestow a gift upon her sons for their strength and devotion, which Hera listened and rewarded the sons. When the prayers and the sacrifice were over, Kleobis and Biton fell asleep in the temple and never woke up, which was the gift Hera bestowed on the boys: allowing for them to die. To honor the two brothers, the people of Delphi dedicated statues of them to the temple of Apollo, allowing for these statues to be seen as funeral memorials."

Source: wikipedia

 

 

This Vulgar Herd Known as "The People"

Blog's Comment: The crowd/mod psychology. As it seems few things has changed since Shakespeare's times. The herd will always be the herd. Whomever blindly trust it, found himself at the end of a rope. 

The clip below is taken from the a modern adaptation of "Coriolanus" in the 2011 British film. Note, the truly extraordinary performance of Raplh Fiennes as "Gaius Martius" , the Roman general who doesn`t hide his low opinion of what is widely known today as "the people". William Shakespeare wrote his famous tragedy "Coriolanus" based on his life. Original text is also included below. The underlines are mine.

 MARTIUS:

What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,
Make yourselves scabs?

FIRST CITIZEN
We have ever your good word.

 MARTIUS:

He that will give good words to thee will flatter
Beneath abhorring. What would you have, you curs,
That like nor peace nor war? the one affrights you,
The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you,
Where he should find you lions, finds you hares;
Where foxes, geese. 

Who deserves greatness
Deserves your hate;  

Trust Ye?
With every minute you do change a mind,
And call him noble that was now your hate,
Him vile that was your garland. What's the matter,
That in these several places of the city
You cry against the noble senate, who,
Under the gods, keep you in awe, which else
Would feed on one another? 

 

JACK LONDON`s Wolf & Death!

Wolf is not Larsen's real given name. His genuine given name is never revealed. Dialogue heavily implies that he is called "Wolf" because of his nature and viciousness, and, for similar reasons, his brother is called "Death".
 

JACK LONDON Sea-Wolf (1904)

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28th of August 1939

On the eve of the invasion to Poland

Meeting between Hermann Göring, Henrich Himmler and Adolf Hitler

Göring: ‘Let’s stop trying to break the bank.’

Hitler: ‘It’s the only game I’ve ever played, breaking banks.’

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Auf Wiedersehen Gudrun!

GUDRUN HIMMLER

8 August 1929 – 24 May 2018

Warchants of The Cythraul Clan

 
In times before the over exploitation of BLACK/DEATH Metal underground to foreign eyes, the gigs meant something more than a musical event. It was gathering of wolves and hounds ready to shed blood, to spread like wildfire.

The bands were not just musicians. They were knights in black leather. Barbarians in spikes, chains and warpaint. Executioners riding directly from the steel kingdoms of a dark heroic fantasy epic.

Lets take a glimpse from these nights that long gone. Ladies and Gentlemen, here is the Southern Abyssic Communion of ABSU, the KONX OM PAX directly from the Celtic Underworld:

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Resound The Jericho Trumpet

"A less obvious modification was one that, nevertheless, endowed the Stuka with a fearsome reputation: each undercarriage leg was provided with a mounting for a siren, a so-called Jericho Trumpet. This produced the Stuka's characteristic diving screece which had such an adverse effect on enemy morale as the dive-bombers supported Germany's early conquests in 1939-41."

Taken from

John Ward "Hitler's Stuka Squadrons"

(the JU 87 at war 1936-1945)

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