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How to Discover Your Own Taste
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Quote from CS Lewis from Packy McCormick’s Election Day newsletter entitled, “Read More Books.”
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.
Edward O. Wilson, debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., 9 September 2009
# on shortification of "learning"
There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are learning (but actually they are just having fun... See more
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“Enchantment” thread is interesting, I’ve saved an article recently about enchantment and much of the thesis was that attention = enchantment. Play = attention, and a specific type of it.
The Identification of the Sacred “Chiton”Sarapis of Pharaoh ...
tandfonline.comThis is interesting and it seems to verify the location of the burial of Alexander the Great, King Philip, and Cleopatra. This struck me as interesting at the time because I’ve recently listened to several Hardcore History episodes on Persian kings - “Kings of Kings” and “Mania for Subjugation”
We Fell For The Oldest Lie On The Internet
youtu.beDracula author Bram Stoker's lost story unearthed after 134 years