Wrath Of Gnonさんのイラストまとめ

“Tolkien begins his sagas of Middle Earth not by describing some vast geopolitical organization, but by ushering us into a snug, well-stocked hobbit hole, in a lovely and rather provincial place called The Shire.”
—Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, Anthony Esolen

Low tech means incredibly robust systems: in 1945, within three days of being hit point blank by a nuclear bomb Hiroshima trams were cleaned up and put back into service, staffed by high school girls. Feel free to compare with your modern system.

More art came out of (walled) renaissance Florence in 70 years than the entire Western World in the last 70 years. Meanwhile our elites are fighting for the chance to turn the entire Earth into a giant suburb, for their profit margin.

Antoine Helbert's drawings of Byzantine architecture and townscapes of Constantinople are absolutely gorgeous. https://t.co/8tN2Xy0SSj

"If we love what is noble, we become noble."
— Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

“Our craving for leisure is proof that most of us are working at tasks to which we could only've been called to by a salesman." Coomaraswamy

And still they would have you believe the medievals were less sophisticated than us moderns?
(A Nuremberg Costume Study 1500 Albrecht Durer)

“Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.”
— G.K. Chesterton