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merelygifted
22.8.2020 23:55:21
As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical 'American heritage'...) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.
— HP Lovecraft
The Temple of Seti I in Abydos - 19th Dynasty, New Kingdom
Statue of Lady Sennuwy - 12th Dynasty, Middle Kingdom - reign of Senwosret I
Tutankhamon represented as Nefertum emerging from a lotus - New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty
Ra-Horakhty - from the tomb of Nefertari - New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty
Akhenaten with Nefertiti and their daughters - New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty
Akhenaten as a Sphinx - Kestner Museum - 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom
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