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<item><title><![CDATA[The Pain of Discipline]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/the-pain-of-discipline/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/the-pain-of-discipline/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[Nobody escapes the pain. This is the thing the comfort-sellers never put on the label. There is no version of your life that does not hurt. You were sold a fantasy where the right amount of rest and self-care and waiting for motivation leads to a soft, painless existence. It does not exist. It has never existed for any man who ever lived.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Arena or the Stands]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/the-arena-or-the-stands/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/the-arena-or-the-stands/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt stood in Paris in 1910 and said the thing every soft man has spent a hundred years trying to forget. It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong stumble, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Starting Point Is Irrelevant]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/your-starting-point-is-irrelevant/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/your-starting-point-is-irrelevant/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[Genghis Khan was sold into slavery as a child. His father was poisoned. His wife was kidnapped. He had nothing.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[GritCult in 2026]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2026/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[An unfinished chapter: the archive stops on 1 June 2026. In five months artificial intelligence became his most-matched subject for the first time, and a short story-post about Dostoevsky facing a firing squad was his most retweeted post of the year.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money & Wealth]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/money-and-wealth/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/money-and-wealth/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Crypto bets, late bloomers and delusional self-belief, with the odd swipe at a guru's backstory or a rich streamer mocking hard workers. Underneath: stop waiting for permission and go and get it.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Goggins]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/david-goggins/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/david-goggins/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The avatar of pure will: GritCult's proof that stats, IQ and genetics count for nothing beside a man willing to seek pain. The living argument that the mind quits long before the body has to.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/san-francisco/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/san-francisco/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[GritCult's shorthand for a city undone by its own policies: housing restrictions, homelessness and theft without consequence. He grants it one virtue, a core of high-signal people who go all in.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/artificial-intelligence/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/artificial-intelligence/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Less a tool than a weather system, reshaping status, work and even romance faster than anyone's models predicted.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Napoleon]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/napoleon/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/napoleon/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Lower end of his class, considered average at best. Then emperor of most of Europe. The standing GRITCULT case study in audacity: appetite grows with eating, and the starting point is irrelevant.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marcus Aurelius]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/marcus-aurelius/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/marcus-aurelius/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Ran an empire and still wrote notes to himself about staying disciplined. Proof that the most powerful man alive was at war with the same softness as everyone else.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/death/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/death/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The deadline that makes everything else serious. Life goes fast, real fast, so there is no sense in waiting for permission.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fitness]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/fitness/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/fitness/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Never about aesthetics first. The gym as the base layer under discipline, sanity and self-worth, and by 2026 something he told men to treat like prayer.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social Media]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/social-media/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/social-media/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The platform he built the account on and the machine he warns about. GritCult tells every lurker to start posting, then tells them the feed was designed to eat them alive.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/japan/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Two Japans: the samurai Japan of the Hagakure and of Musashi, whose mantra GritCult chants in the gym, and the ageing modern country he reads as a preview of the West's demographic decline.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity & God]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/christianity-and-god/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/christianity-and-god/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Not performative religion but conviction. God rewards the bold, puts a man through the desert before the promised land, and worrying is treated as a sin. Faith and action, presented as the same act.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family & Fatherhood]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/family-and-fatherhood/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/family-and-fatherhood/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Children as the reason to build. Marriage as the lock that ends drift, bloodline as a debt owed forward, and fatherhood as the final test of everything else he preaches.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[War]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/war/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/war/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Less geopolitics than revelation: who actually knows what they are talking about, and what happens to empires that overreach.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Julius Caesar]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/julius-caesar/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/julius-caesar/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Kidnapped by pirates, Caesar mocked their ransom as too small, then came back and killed them all. GritCult's case study in nerve, grudges and measuring oneself against greater men.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/business/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/business/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Build your own thing. GritCult treats a job as a trap and the founder as the modern hero: obsessive, unbalanced, loophole-hunting and convinced the upside is worth the wreckage.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drugs & Alcohol]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/drugs-and-alcohol/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/drugs-and-alcohol/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Alcohol as a drug for the subjugated, weed as a hormonal hazard, sobriety as strength. A line against intoxication that hardens over the years, while stimulants are openly celebrated.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books & Reading]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/books-and-reading/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/books-and-reading/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Reading as slow, note-taking work, old books trusted over new ones, and living put ahead of reading about it. A reader who keeps returning to Hagakure and Mishima, and warns that too much reading dulls the mind.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[NFTs]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/nfts/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/nfts/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[A short, loud chapter. In 2021 GritCult called NFTs the end of the copy-of-a-copy age and launched his own collection; by 2023 he was predicting most projects would die for want of a business model.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hemingway]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/hemingway/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/hemingway/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Strong at the broken places. GritCult's Hemingway is a writer of hard consolations: the world breaks everyone, wealth breeds the fear of death, and motion is not the same as action.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memes & Memetics]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/memes-and-memetics/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/memes-and-memetics/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[One of his oldest intellectual obsessions. GritCult spent 2018 writing about memetics and never stopped treating ideas as organisms: memes infect, egregores feed, and by the memecoin era every coin was just another meme.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[America]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/america/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/america/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Imperial decline in real time. A dying currency, a hollowed-out middle class and debts it cannot repay, mapped onto the fall of Rome.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/discipline/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/discipline/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Reframed as self-worship until it gets easy. The whole game in one word: lock in.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crypto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/crypto/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/crypto/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[A philosophy with a chart attached. He came in through the anti-authoritarian door, money that doesn't ask permission, and never left.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/suffering/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/suffering/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Not the obstacle but the path. The forge. GRITCULT's oldest frame: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret, and one of them is heavier.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women & Relationships]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/women-and-relationships/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/women-and-relationships/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The corpus's highest-voltage subject: the posts here pull more reach than almost anything. Evolutionary candour delivered at street level.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[School & Education]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/school-and-education/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/school-and-education/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Good at school is not good at learning. Credentials as theatre, teachers as an outdated profession, and AI tutors, homeschooling and obsessive self-study as the replacement.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evolution]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/evolution/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/evolution/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The one idea under all the others: biology → memes → cults → innovation → technology. Through death, some things improve… for a while.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charlie Munger]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/charlie-munger/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/charlie-munger/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Buried a son, went bankrupt, came back. GritCult uses Charlie Munger as proof that it is never too late, and as a teacher of self-critical, unglamorous thinking.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seneca]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/seneca/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/seneca/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The Stoic of wasted time. GritCult uses Seneca to scold the doom-scroller, to argue that excellence needs an adversary, and to remind the restless traveller that he always packs himself.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/elon-musk/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/elon-musk/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Not an idol but a live example: proof that obsession, applied without apology, reshapes whole industries.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rome]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/rome/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/rome/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The recurring measuring stick. Empires rise on discipline and die on comfort, and GRITCULT never lets anyone forget which phase the West is in.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alexander the Great]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/alexander-the-great/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/alexander-the-great/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The yardstick for early achievement. GritCult uses Alexander, who conquered most of the known world young and died at 32, to shame excuses, mock modern softness and argue that a short great life beats a long timid one.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jordan Peterson]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/jordan-peterson/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/jordan-peterson/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[A teacher GritCult outgrew. In 2018 he bought the books and attended the lectures; by 2024 Peterson sat on his list of midwit authors whose work is better left unread.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dostoevsky]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/dostoevsky/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/dostoevsky/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Stood blindfolded before a firing squad at 28 and got reprieved at the last second. In GritCult's posts he is the man who survived that morning, and the source of one commandment: above all, don't lie to yourself.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nietzsche]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/nietzsche/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/nietzsche/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The patron saint of the timeline. GRITCULT reaches for him more than any other philosopher: eternal recurrence, will to power, amor fati. When the doctrine needs a spine, it borrows his.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nikola Tesla]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/nikola-tesla/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/nikola-tesla/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Right too early, and alone. GritCult treats Nikola Tesla as the genius who won the technical war and lost the personal one, and argues he needed a wife more than his pigeons.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas Edison]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/thomas-edison/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/thomas-edison/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The operator to Tesla's inventor. GritCult quotes Edison on hard work and on having many ideas, and casts him as the man better adapted to his world, who won the business war.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carl Jung]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/carl-jung/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/carl-jung/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[A mystic who dreamt and called it science, beloved by the pseuds GritCult despises. He says he hates Jung, and keeps quoting him anyway.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aristotle]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/aristotle/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/aristotle/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Probably his favourite philosopher, by his own 2018 account. GritCult's Aristotle is the thinker of phronesis and the golden mean, practical wisdom and balance turned against intellectuals who know everything and can do nothing.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[South America]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/south-america/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/south-america/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[A region GritCult uses as a laboratory of lessons: Venezuela for socialism, Argentina for bad money, El Salvador for bitcoin and one-man reform, Brazil for what America might become.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hong Kong]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/hong-kong/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/hong-kong/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[A free-trade success story and a protest laboratory. GritCult cites Hong Kong as proof that open markets bring prosperity, then studies its riots for lessons in memes and Chinese power.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Harris]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/sam-harris/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/sam-harris/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[GritCult's shorthand for the midwit. Harris turns up on reading lists to avoid, as a counter signal to invert, and as one of the public intellectuals he suspects were manufactured.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/steve-jobs/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/steve-jobs/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Taste, obsession, reality-distortion. The craftsman who refused to ship anything he didn't believe in.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sam Altman]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/sam-altman/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/sam-altman/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Founder advice from the head of OpenAI. GritCult mines Sam Altman for lines on self-belief, persistence and urgency, and watches his reputation with a cooler eye.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/donald-trump/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/donald-trump/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Never quite a political subject. GritCult reads Trump as a Tudor king reborn, a symptom of an ageing empire, a meme that moves markets and, lately, a motivational figure whose energy he openly admires.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[North Korea]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/north-korea/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/north-korea/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Two North Koreas: in 2018 the despotic warning to socialists, from 2023 the high-birth-rate state GritCult predicts will outlast its rich, childless southern neighbour.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stalin]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/stalin/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/stalin/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Thirteen posts, one of them viral. GritCult cites Stalin's obscure early life as proof that it is never too late, and otherwise invokes him as shorthand for state violence and unchecked power.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genghis Khan]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/genghis-khan/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/genghis-khan/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Sold into slavery as a child, lost everything, built the largest contiguous empire in history on merit and ferocity. Exhibit A for the claim that origin is not destiny.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silicon Valley]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/silicon-valley/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/silicon-valley/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Where the future gets built and the midwits gather. GritCult mocks Silicon Valley's groupthink, jargon and godless VCs, yet keeps applying to Y Combinator and pitching the investors he ridicules.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emerson]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/emerson/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/emerson/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Self-reliance in quote-card form. GritCult posts Emerson to say do the thing, ignore what people think and distrust colleges, and, more gently than usual for the account, never put off a kindness.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peter Thiel]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/peter-thiel/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/peter-thiel/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Startup doctrine from Zero to One. GritCult studies Peter Thiel's rules on foundations, focus and distribution, while treating the man himself with growing suspicion.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voltaire]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/voltaire/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/voltaire/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[One sentence carries him: no problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. GritCult's Voltaire is also the author of Candide, a book he ranks among the most powerful he has read while siding against its mockery of optimism.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cormac McCarthy]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/cormac-mccarthy/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/cormac-mccarthy/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Blood Meridian pilled. GritCult's McCarthy is chiefly the creator of Judge Holden, read as a philosophy of power through naming and knowing, plus one stark line from 2025: there is no later.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Machiavelli]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/machiavelli/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/machiavelli/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[“The wise man does immediately what the fool does eventually.” Action over hesitation, clarity over cope. A favourite well to draw from.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[GritCult in 2025]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2025/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2025/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Fewer words, the biggest audience. With only 1,607 originals among 5,488 posts, 2025 drew 206,204 retweets and 2,453,944 likes, far beyond any other year, much of it on images and clips with a word or two of caption, or none.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/cs-lewis/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/cs-lewis/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[From pep talk to moral seriousness. GritCult's C.S. Lewis began as a voice of optimism and of failure as a signpost, then became in 2025 a writer on temptation, self-knowledge and brave knights.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hitler]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/hitler/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/hitler/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[A reference point, not a role model. GritCult uses Hitler in arguments about imitation, labels and historical memory, and treats the word “Nazi” as a tool of classification worth studying.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Must Pay the Tax: A Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m2000698688285360405</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m2000698688285360405</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:45:13 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[Every blessing has a price attached to it like a shadow. Want wealth? Pay the tax of sleepless nights and risk. Want love? Pay the tax of vulnerability and potential heartbreak. Want greatness? Pay the tax of isolation and misunderstanding. There is no discount, no payment plan. The universe doesn't negotiate.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lee Kuan Yew]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/lee-kuan-yew/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/lee-kuan-yew/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The nation builder every great man should study. GritCult holds up Lee Kuan Yew as an independent thinker who made hard decisions, built a city from nothing and was willing to be feared.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/saudi-arabia/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/saudi-arabia/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[A desert kingdom GritCult studies as a lesson in founding and power: a towering founder, a religious alliance, durable institutions and a state juggling every rival in the region.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[List of other figures]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/list-of-other-figures/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/list-of-other-figures/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Five figures who surface in GritCult's posts too rarely for a page of their own, mostly through borrowed quotations or a single striking fact: Kafka, Kierkegaard, Ricky Gervais, Rockefeller and Tolstoy.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Schopenhauer]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/schopenhauer/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/schopenhauer/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The pessimist, lightly used. GritCult's Schopenhauer is a source of hard aphorisms on genius, cruelty and politeness, and lately of image posts on solitude as freedom and on thinking before reading.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/benjamin-franklin/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/benjamin-franklin/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Write something worth reading or do something worth writing. GritCult takes Franklin as the model of lifelong self-improvement, quotes him often, and knows it.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epictetus]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/epictetus/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/epictetus/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The Stoic of the company a man keeps. GritCult's Epictetus filters friends, places freedom in the mind rather than the world, and in his most-shared post asks for nothing less than a lifetime of progress.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cults]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/cults/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/cults/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[GritCult's master key to human behaviour: companies, coins, religions and fandoms are all cults. He urges men to study them and start their own, while warning how cult leaders prey on the lost.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soviet Union]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/soviet-union/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/soviet-union/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The empire that reached space but could not bake enough bread. GritCult uses the Soviet Union as a lesson in abolishing the profit motive, and the Cold War as his frame for the present.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Be a Star, You Must Burn — The Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1959265912604832250</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1959265912604832250</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 14:46:09 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[Nothing about a star is calm. It is a violent furnace that consumes itself in order to light the dark void of space. While you enjoy the night sky, know you are staring into a graveyard.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stoicism]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/stoicism/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/stoicism/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Endure. Control what can be controlled. Stay indifferent to the opinions of people not worth trading places with. A frame he leaned on hardest in 2018 and later kept as one tool among several, not a personality.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep Clicking: The Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1950955214321693182</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1950955214321693182</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:22:24 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[You're paralyzed. Sitting. Scrolling. Vaping. Waiting for the perfect moment that will never come. You've become an analyst of dreams instead of a builder. A scared spectator hiding behind strategy. Struck down by paralysis analysis.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Camus]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/camus/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/camus/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Invincible summer, yes; the boulder, no. GritCult's Camus supplies a passage on unbreakable inner strength that he shares widely, while the acceptance of Sisyphus is dismissed as slave labour.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goethe]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/goethe/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/goethe/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Glad where Nietzsche was mad. GritCult's Goethe is the complete man Napoleon saluted, a maker of maxims on action, leadership and character who insists that knowing and willing count for nothing until applied.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mike Tyson]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/mike-tyson/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/mike-tyson/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The modern Plato is a boxer. GritCult rates Mike Tyson above most professional philosophers and draws on him for lessons about enemies, pressure and the risks of greatness.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry Is Sin. The Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1885391758592274643</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1885391758592274643</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:16:38 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[Worry is sin. Worry is blasphemy. It is doubt against reality, against creation. Each anxious thought spits in GOD's face. Your fear is faithlessness. A cancer of the soul that spreads until it paralyzes and kills. Worry is to wage war against the divine order. Against what must be. Every second spent in anxiety is a sin. By worrying, you tell existence: "I declare myself unworthy of GOD's design."]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luck Is a Skill Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1883955982486933960</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1883955982486933960</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 19:11:23 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[If you're reading this and think luck isn't a skill, you're unlucky. You've likely never been lucky. Luck is a skill. You can train it, level it, and increase it. You can make your own luck. Luck is a self fulfilling prophecy. Those who believe they're lucky, are.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The High Energy Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1878874536319578383</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1878874536319578383</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:39:31 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[Sitting, scrolling, thinking, waiting? You need momentum, you need to be high energy. You need to be juggling projects, need to be walking fast everywhere, constantly tapped in, constantly locked in. You gotta live fast paced. Following every interest, every song, every strange encounter. Speed is for those who love life, and everything it has to offer. High energy is the way to get more, more of everything.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep Your Edge, My Son. The Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1877176160536117478</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1877176160536117478</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 02:10:47 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[As a kid you were told you were sharp. As you aged you unknowingly dulled, overbearing teachers telling you off, people saying you have autism and adhd. Society wants to dull you to fit into a neat hole of being an interchangeable economic unit. Fuck that. Keep your edge. Sharpen it.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[GritCult in 2024]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2024/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2024/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The year of the manifesto. Two silent months, the lowest full-year total in the archive at 3,779 posts, and a new vocabulary of locking in and romance maxxing, plus a manifesto for his old line that God loves risk takers.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant Movement — Not Comfort, My Son. The Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1848518583179001921</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1848518583179001921</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:15:48 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[That gnawing feeling in your gut when everything's too perfect? That's your ancestral spirit screaming through your DNA. Your body knows what your mind tries to forget: we weren't built for comfort. We were forged in the fires of constant motion, eternal pursuit, endless hunger. You evolved to be in constant motion.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write, Young Man, Write. A Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1817689622627115101</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1817689622627115101</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:32:31 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[Your most powerful tool. The key that will set you free. An engine of invention, a constant spring to creativity. It's what makes you human. A weapon born out of the hellfire of evolution, from being hunted by predators to being one poor harvest away from starvation. The only thing you could rely on. Your mind.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Brutal Realism Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1817251288738054308</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1817251288738054308</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2024 17:30:44 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[Life is hard, life is short. People are fickle, people are malicious. Time is running out, your days are numbered. The greatest sin of our age isn't greed, sloth, or even malice. It's the quiet, insidious act of lying to yourself. Not choosing to look at things objectively. Every day, millions betray themselves, choosing comforting delusions over the harsh light of reality. This self-deception is the root of our world's misery.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time Is Running Out: A Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1816974157675897050</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1816974157675897050</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2024 23:09:31 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[Feel that, my son? That weight crushing your chest each night as you lie awake, exhausted yet restless. It's the burden of your untapped potential, the growing list of dreams deferred, ambitions neglected. Remember this weight. Let it sear into your soul every time you catch yourself squandering the seconds of your existence.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get Angry, My Son. A Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1816541501993939144</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1816541501993939144</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:30:18 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[Fury courses through your veins, yet you sit there, a statue of indifference. Why? Wake up! Your complacency is a straitjacket, suffocating your spirit. The stoic ideology has castrated your passion, fed you the poisonous lie that emptiness is enlightenment. Your apathy isn't zen, it's surrender. You're not transcending emotions, you're running from them like a coward.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The GOD Loves Risk Takers Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1816163736345886721</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1816163736345886721</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:29:12 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[GOD wants you to win. You need to be taking more risks. You need to trust in GOD. You will forever be thinking what if? What if you had taken that risk. Every risk taker in history has helped humanity, pushing that frontier ever further. That's what humanity needs right now because we are always on the brink, close to falling backwards into the abyss, as we have so many times before.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start a Cult, My Son: A Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1815848337486328226</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1815848337486328226</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 20:35:55 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[You are in a cult, you are in multiple. Cults are everywhere. Every tribe, family, brand, all cults. Start your own, now. The quickest way to get obsessed with something, to go deep into it, to turn every facet of your being toward the thing that the cult promotes. If you want to live life to the fullest, do it with a cult. Cults are the ultimate self improvement tool.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The LovePill Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1815475841440354743</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1815475841440354743</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:55:45 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[The internet can be a cold dark forest, full of strangers and info hazards in every direction. Predators hiding in plain sight. The world is drowning in cynicism, nihilism and irony. Where hate is the new currency, spreading love is the ultimate act of rebellion. You have a choice. Take the lovepill.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fuck Waiting Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1814742935264481460</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1814742935264481460</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 19:23:26 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[Let me guess, you're waiting to act on that idea that you've had for years. There comes a time when dreaming feels more rewarding than actually working on that dream. Thinking to yourself one day you will live up to your potential not knowing you are asleep and your dream is slowly dying. Sometimes it takes waking up to start working on those dreams. Wake up. Now.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romance Maxxing. The Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1814349482357596349</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1814349482357596349</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2024 17:20:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[Growing up I had a dream. For my life to be as interesting as the epic novels I would read. There is one thing that the most interesting characters in history all craved... that was intensity. Be it through whatever avenue it may be. Obsession, eccentricity, discipline. They all had one thing in common, intensity in the moment. They revelled in the moment, loved living life. They all ended up having "breadth of life".]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Should Document More: A Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1813972633571987832</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1813972633571987832</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:22:32 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[It wasn't until we started to document things did civilization start to take off on this exponential curve that we are on. Documentation is the thread that binds generations. It's the foundation of our exponential growth, the bedrock of our shared knowledge.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay Faceless, My Son: A Manifesto]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1813605274835472895</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/manifestos/all/#m1813605274835472895</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:02:47 +0000</pubDate><category>Manifesto</category><description><![CDATA[In a world obsessed with selfies and social media stardom, this advice is your shield and your sword. Ancient cultures warned: a photo steals your soul. In the AI age, it's worse. Your face becomes data, biometrics, numbers, ripe for manipulation and exploitation. Instead, choose power through obscurity.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kali Yuga]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/kali-yuga/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/kali-yuga/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The dark age of the yuga cycle, read as a promise: chaos now, a golden age after. GritCult invokes it to forecast renaissance after plague and to laugh at doom.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sparta]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/sparta/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/sparta/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Thermopylae as a lesson in preparation and nerve. GritCult admires the Spartan underdog legend and the training behind it, while doubting that Sparta was ever much of a civilisation.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socrates]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/socrates/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/socrates/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The patron of the good question. GritCult's Socrates is a man chilling with his bros, asking questions and wrestling, who chose death over silence and would have felt at home on Twitter.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[GritCult in 2023]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2023/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2023/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Fewer posts, bigger reach. Retweets climbed to 63,639 as artificial intelligence broke into his top subjects and "psy ops" became his shorthand for much of modern life.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plato]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/plato/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/plato/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Plato was his wrestling name. GritCult's Plato is a warrior poet first, the wrestler who philosophised, and only then the author of the cave, the propertyless guardians and a warning about leaving politics to lesser men.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Twain]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/mark-twain/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/mark-twain/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[A quote bank rather than a subject. GritCult reaches for Twain's one-liners on reading, schooling, purpose and the folly of the majority, usually posted in capitals with little comment.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Churchill]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/churchill/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/churchill/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[Churchill as a quote card. GritCult posts his lines on optimism, endurance and the slow work of building, and notes that, unlike Marx, Churchill never had a cult.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/oscar-wilde/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/oscar-wilde/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The wit GritCult quotes for elegance with an edge: judging men by their enemies, mocking people who live as copies of others, and praising art that reaches both the gutter and the stars.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[GritCult in 2022]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2022/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2022/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The breakout. He wrote more original posts than in any other year, replies fell behind originals for the first time, and image and video posts with one-line captions carried the account to a mass audience.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[GritCult in 2021]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2021/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2021/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The year of capital letters. Crypto became his most-matched subject for the first time, NFTs arrived, and the account turned to explainer threads, affirmations, fasting as rebellion and God in the patterns.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[GritCult in 2020]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2020/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2020/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[A year of threads and silence. Posting nearly stopped in April, then came back as a run of retweet-for-a-take threads, with David Goggins as the patron of will and beauty offered as the answer to irony.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[GritCult in 2019]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2019/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2019/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The quiet year. Output fell to 7,500 posts, only 1,083 of them originals, but what survived was shorter and harder, and the gloom of 2018 gave way to a declared, almost combative optimism.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[GritCult in 2018]]></title><link>https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2018/</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://gritcult.com/archive/wiki/gritcult-in-2018/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><category>Wiki</category><description><![CDATA[The archive's opening year and its loudest: 20,081 posts of lower-case aphorisms, evolutionary psychology and broke/woke memes from an account that was curious, prolific and openly gloomy about the future.]]></description></item>
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