history & culltural evolution

You've seen this before: Mont-Saint-Michel — the Wonder of the Western World. But did you know it has a twin, 200 miles away, also named after St. Michael? That's where things get really strange... (thread) 🧵 https://t.co/4gFMgHojJy

holy shit ❤️‍🔥

a one-tweet summary of why i'm so obsessed with writing manifestos

Alan Watts about the loss of privacy we can expect when we become a planetary superorganism with an electronic nervous system https://t.co/kznelHHgis

A lineage is an archive. It is by nature quite conservative. it doesn't want change, it doesn't care about change - it wants to maintain what matters, and any individual member can't be sure which things matter most, so there's limited freedom to adapt while also preserving. You can add incremental pamphlets and marginalia to the material already i... See more