The most tragic quality of youth is that the young feel as if they're going to be young forever, not realizing that this fugitive youth and all its grace and its elan comprises a treasury of priceless wealth. To be young, and strong, and good looking, and sharp-witted, and

The father of seven has not finished a thought in four years. he is just moving. feeding. driving. wiping. his brain is soup and his back is finished and he has no opinions about civilization he is too tired for opinions. and meanwhile civilization is growing out of him like he

A lot of smart people took positions the past decade that turned out to be unbelievably stupid. There are a few reasons for this. First, being intelligent doesn’t correlate as well with being clear eyed and perceptive as many suppose. Second, and related, being up close to see

There’s a reason most of the westerners who fetishize IQ online tend to cluster around academia, research, policy analysis and think tanks. Their world rewards abstraction and credentialism and is a relatively closed system with Gaussian outcomes. Many of them have never created

Canada and the EU are rushing into the arms of China precisely because Trump is hitting “fast and hard” I assume Trump is a fan of the Art of War because of his own famous homage to the title, and Sun Tzu explains it perfectly, which is why this is so frustrating! By publicly

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Critical theory arrogantly presupposed itself capable of dispelling ideology in order to clearly understand social reality, but their methods were so shoddy and its proponents so mediocre that the consequence has been a factory of ideological obscurity, where the putative objects

If we must imagine Sisyphus happy, do we imagine us in his place, or Claude? 🤔

A set of basics hand painted after landscapes found in 'The Witness' game. I strolled the open world and chose the locations myself.

Wow, why did this never occur to me...

The GDP Handbrake Global GDP is restricted by several “but we’ve always done it this way” technologies that are technologically inferior to other solutions, and their only moat is “but this very old supply chain is reliable” even though said supply chain is not. So what are

> call to adventure > refusal of the call > refusal of the call > refusal of the call > refusal of the call > refusal of the call > tentative and begrudging acceptance of the call on nights and weekends only

This image has now fully convinced me that birds are indeed descended from dinosaurs

It's depressing this is already proving to be true