Aesthetics create Ethics, Ethics create Politics. This is why Dune counters its own intended message, because Paul is too cool aesthetically to succumb to the lower order political intent of Herbert/Villeneuve. “Media literacy” is idiot-level reading that ignores this fact.

I want to see an end to consumer debt. No credit cards. No payday loans. No interest on home mortgages. No education loans. Let the federal government, via the Federal Reserve, provide interest-free first-home loans to married couples. The aim is simple: children raised in

From the people who brought you utensils, this summer, get ready for: Uelevensils.

If the village won’t raise the child, the child will raze the village.

In the knowing, the myth dies. In the understanding, the myth is reborn.

Perhaps more difficult to imagine is the possibility that they’re humble and don’t share the same metric for measuring intelligence as most people.

Open AI guy: “AI can only automate fake work.”

The spirit is willing, but the sauce is weak.

The reason Zen consistently produces high quality people, and psychotherapy is much more inconsistent, is that Zen rebuilds people's character with rigorous training at the same time it deconstructs their concepts. They make no secret of the fact that they are a patriarchal

female infrastructural competition

Ironically, the people who make the XKCD argument earnestly are claiming perennialism in practice while almost always being progressivists. The reality is that Kali Yuga is when too much iPad. Few.

If you don’t think this is one of the absolute greatest films of all time, we don’t live in the same reality and the one you inhabit is ass.

Make Drip Great Again

It’s specifically for this reason that the SV tech bros should be far removed from any power or authority. Tech will make the world better? SF is a shithole and the only tech solution is the app that tracks where shit and heroin needles are. This is why nerds are bullied.

The same flame that burns the sinner is the light that warms the saint.

The secret is called eat muscle (and marrow when you can) fats and then simply be active and stressed and it will make you strong