20th Century Guild

"He must stride through the zone of death. There is no escape. No detour, no exception. The relentlessness of this reality compels him to enter danger with open eyes. His path would be meaningless, if it did not mean the fulfilment of his goal: his folk's freedom, which simultaneously encompasses his troop's honour and his own honour. He wields the weapon, which is supposed to bring the enemy destruction, and knows that the enemy also aims to destroy him: a clear, manly decision, you or I!" - Kurt Eggers Few…

Photo taken by LIFE Magazine of a U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command B-36 bomber crew wearing cold-weather gear while posing beside their aircraft, somewhere in Alaska, circa 1950s. Behind them is the Convair B-36 Peacemaker, one of the largest bombers ever built, and one of the defining aircraft of the early Cold War. The B-36 belonged to that strange transitional age between the Second World War and the jet age. It was not sleek like the bombers that came after it. It was vast, heavy, and almost absurdly enormous,…

I think Nixon is defintley a strong candidate, but I would love to hear the opinions of others!

The twentieth century was dominated by grand ideologies that promised liberation, equality, prosperity, national renewal, and even the perfection of mankind. Communism, fascism, racial nationalism, revolutionary internationalism, and various forms of technocratic social engineering all claimed to possess a final explanation for history and a complete program for the future. Yet again and again, these systems reduced living peoples to abstractions and treated entire societies as raw material to be reorganized according to theory. Human beings became classes, races, economic units, voting blocs, or obstacles to progress rather than persons…