What makes something a cliche is that we're over exposed to it. We couldn't recognize a cliche from a 100 years ago, because we don't live in the same context. We may feel randos were writing amazingly a 100ya but it's only because their culture is mostly alien to us!

I had forgotten about this incredible piece of animation youtu.be/rVJW3m2gmgk?si…

Scripts, always scripts !

We are deliberately deciding to stay stupid, poor, and living in crap conditions!

Yup, i think this is probably slowly coming our way. Not because the people want it, but due to some elite being utterly scared

Erasmus' Praise of Folly should be mandatory reading in Rationalist circles

As i've been saying for a while. This isn't just a series of war. It's the same war, fought over many theaters, but ultimately about the same very fuzzy things...

I don't think people realize how organized a "rebellion" or opposition has to be for a democratic transition to happen following a war and the rule of an autocratic regime. Not sure Iran has that...

Currently writing a paper on democracy defining it as a chain of mechanisms allowing the reversibility of governing factions and working within a specific set of conditions. Even when the mechanisms operate correctly, if the conditions change too much, democracy can fail under

My main takeaway from 10 years teaching is that there is no way to scale schooling correctly at a mass level. Mass schooling outside of primary school is impossible. At middle and high school level, there should be a competitive market of different schooling systems

The guy next to me at the pool has a tatoo on his shoulder saying Conatus. Should i say something?

Well i see this as a first sign of breakdown in leadership. Let's see where this leads in a week

Technologies, social technologies, it's all ever about technologies. But you need a bundle for them to take root!

The similarities are obvious but the simpler explanation is descent from common ancestry. No need to go all jungian

I remember first noticing this when Huger Games was released...

Here’s a letter to the editor that every degrowther should read: