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Jonny Hawton • Scar Tissue - Predictions of the Long-Term Bahaviorial Scars of the 2020 Recession on Gen Z
Après une âpre lutte qui dure des jours, on en vient à un compromis très bourgeois : on va fonder la grande expérience sur des bases raisonnables. Honoré en fera à sa tête, il pourra essayer de devenir un homme de lettres illustre. Comment il y parviendra, c’est son affaire. La famille de son côté s’intéresse à cette entreprise hasardeuse avec un c
... See moreStefan Zweig • Balzac: Le roman de sa vie (French Edition)
Will MacAskill • Doing Good: A Conversation with William MacAskill (Episode #228)
Proactive cheating is the Single Mommy dilemma. This form of ‘cheating’ relies on the woman breeding with a Good Genes male, bearing his children and then abandoning him, or having him abandon her, (again through invented social conventions) in order to find a Good Dad male to provide for her and the children of her Good Genes partner to ensure the
... See moreRollo Tomassi • The Rational Male
Special tax incentives could be granted to those who employed children between the ages of eight and fourteen for a couple of hours each day if the conditions of employment were humane ones. We should return to the tradition of the bar mitzvah or confirmation. By this I mean we should first restrict, and later eliminate, the disenfranchisement of t
... See moreIvan Illich • Deschooling Society (Open Forum S)
modern-day eugenics enrolls each of us in its blood-soaked imagination—asking us to shoulder social problems, inviting us to purchase an illusion of safety, making any demand for robust public investment in the goods, services, and infrastructure required for everyone to live well appear unimaginable.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
Peter Thiel • The Straussian Moment
