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Decades after the truce, John Locke—whose philosophy influenced the American founding fathers more than any other—wrote about human nature as if it were an “unknowable x.” He knew that disagreements over religion (Jerusalem) and over reason (Athens) were dangerous, so he declared the question of human nature an unfathomable idea that people would n... See more
Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen
Alan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
Moneywork w/ Peter Koenig
youtube.comso much of our lives are dictated by this kind of algorithmic convergence, so that I don’t even trust it anymore. We’re all being herded.
Substack • martin luther's wordle starter
The black American writer Richard Wright once wrote that black and white Americans were engaged in a war over the nature of reality.
Salman Rushdie • Salman Rushdie · Imaginary Homelands
He argues that a low entropy, or predictable and stable, carrier is required for the emergence of knowledge -- whether it be a fiber optic cable and communication, or a social system governed by the rule of law and economic innovation. Such a social system is not spontaneous, but rather developed through sacrifice and a religious order.
George Gilder • George Gilder on knowledge, power, and the economy
@alcentian_one @harry_taussig https://t.co/0c6lA38IDu
This would mean, he explained, that the government would ban any business model that tracks you online in order to figure out your weaknesses and then sells that private data to the highest bidder so they can change your behavior.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
If we don’t change course, he fears we are headed toward a world where “there’s going to be an upper class of people that are very aware” of the risks to their attention and find ways to live within their limits, and then there will be the rest of the society with “fewer resources to resist the manipulation, and they’re going to be living more and
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