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I’m not trad; I don’t think that Europeans were meant to be butter churners forever. We’re gifted with the Faustian Spirit—we were destined to walk the knife’s edge. It’s our birthright to transform ourselves, to tame lightning, to chase the sun

Yeah ok

based

Yes. English is the best language because it has always been more than one language. Every English speaker has always been multilingual.

“In order to be great, we must first be small. In order to be glory, we must first be refuse. In order to begin, heroically, the journey towards an unbounded wisdom, we must first stand, modestly, at the beginning of an infinite ignorance.” ~Conjecture Institute Fellow Tom Hyde

Read the full essay here: open.substack.com/pub/tomhyde/p/…

"Children cannot learn without school."

Curious that cheerleading—Plato’s ideal heterosexual sport—is considered both emasculate and homosexual in a pejorative sense. It is the only sport where men are necessarily large and strong and women are necessarily small and graceful and both are necessarily as much *together*

The first Martian colonists will be the first humans—no—animals—no—life(?)—to break the parity between years lived and Earth orbits around the sun. “Another year another orbit”? Yes, exactly, for the first time, in the history of time, *an other* orbit.

OK so the Enlightenment, at its core, was just two things. 1. Anti-Fideism 2. Meliorism ?

That I’m happy grocery shops are filled with food; that free trade is good.

I would never stand on business. That’s foundationalism

How it feels to read an em dash

Aaron Stupple Fixed.

Novels without gripping first sentences pain me. But novels without gripping first sentences that later go on to smuggle in the *perfect* first sentence onto like page 8 make me want to Thesz press a typewriter

It’s their way of telling you: “Please, for the love of joy, just shut the fuck up, we are just so tired, of your doom, of your disconsolate misanthropic drawl, of your discommoding superficious prattle; please, just this once, take the win, see the wonder, choose the good…”

This is S-tier world building. Multiple distinct-yet-interacting, discrete-yet-overlapping, diverse-yet-unifying magic systems; old, and middle-old, and recent-old mythic histories; competitive fortunes, hierarchical divines. 9.8/10. Game of the year.