Category Archives: Mostly Tourism
Working Hard, as always.
Brawl in the Ukrainian Parliament Neatly Illustrates the Golden Ratio
Lviv!
Real sorry I missed the #bjj seminar in #Lviv #Ukraine with Paul Stolyar. Heard proceeds went to a WIA soldier.
Real sorry I missed the #bjj seminar in #Lviv #Ukraine with Paul Stolyar. (http://www.bjjee.com/interview/interview-with-paul-stolyar-ukraines-first-bjj-black-belt/) Heard proceeds went to a WIA soldier.
Kyiv — Political Segues
Curt on Lviv and Immigration
Lviv is everything Paris pretends it is, and wishes it was. Unlike Paris, Lviv is quiet, bespoke, culturally elegant, civil, unpretentious, populated by decent beautiful folk, and free of human parasites.
People cross themselves when they pass the church. Mothers dress as if going to the Opera when merely walking their children for the day.
Men play chess in the central park, rather than demonstrate bravado.
We used to be like this before the massive immigration of the 20th century.
Cultural Diversity is the equivalent of bodily cancer or excess genetic intermixing. Without boundaries neither behavior or genes can calculate success. The result is civil and genetic collapse. And the only solution is tyranny or secession.
Tyranny requires violence against the people and a docile populace. Secession requires violence against the state, and an activist populace.
Kyiv Bar Advertising Football – “Algeria vs Occupiers”
Largest Music Concert in Ukraine’s History. 70k+ people.
Йшли селом партизани – Ukrainian Partisan Song
Йшли селом партизани
Crazy Music for Crazy times in Ukraine
The first day of Summer. Kyiv. Art Club 44.
First day of Summer in Kyiv. Smart, beautiful people. Fantastic music: a Georgian brother-sister band. They joined us for a while afterwards. What a great night. Check out their music: http://www.aseasool.com/
In Kyiv with Curt. Rain Dancer. The guy was at it for 40 minutes.
My Training Partner, Valentin in an MMA tournament on Friday
Pretty good for a sixteen year old. You’ll notice it was Brazilian Jiu Jitsu that won him both fights. :)
Curt on Parenting — US vs Ukraine
HIGH TIME PARENTING NOT HIGH INVESTMENT PARENTING
Strange watching people in other countries raise children. I was definitely raised in the puritan protestant tradition to be an independent person as soon as possible.
But you watch children in the states today and there is obviously something very wrong with them. Almost all of them. And then you come to a place with a traditional family like Ukraine, and watch the kids and … there isnt’ anything wrong with them. So what’s the difference?
They aren’t constantly trying to get attention from parents who don’t want to give it to them.
Now, it’s not high investment parenting. In fact, it’s kind of strange how LITTLE effort parents put into competitive child rearing. Instead, they just pay attention to them. A lot of attention. At home. WIth family.
That must be what it is that Iove about this country. I think that’s it. Americans are all desperately seeking attention on their terms. Here, nobody is. They’re seeking experiences, and wealth, and opportunity. But they’re not desperate for attention. They aren’t ‘crazy’ like so many americans. They aren’t desperately trying to find meaning in political movements, in environmental movements, in different kinds of spiritualism as a means of filling that hole in their souls.
Is it that simple?
9 Places I Want to Visit in Ukraine
Haytarma
GREAT MOVIE: Haytarma – about Tartar Red Army Tartar Pilot during mass deportation














