It's kind of interesting that we got into a headspace where we think there is some broad basket of things called "government services." This is false. Instead, there are schools. Also, in some jurisdictions, there is also transit. Otherwise there is redistribution. That is it.

I pray our own social-science holds up as well as this.

It's sad the extent to which luxury & the good life has been sublimated to food. Opera, symphonies, fine clothing, furniture, yachting, art, etc. - all of this has been lost.

I looked around for a name in Greek suitable to the environment but unfortunately the answer is "Phoenix."

The Cultural Residue of the Irish is one of the great Contingent Facts of world history. English is the Great Tongue of the Age of Novels (only French could compare) and what novel could go tooth-to-tooth with Ulysses? Middlemarch... maybe?

- good sign that we can openly observe group differences now due to the vibe shift - yes women value social cohesion more, men have a higher tolerance for controversial ideas - i find the article lacking as a general theory of everything