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
Progress and Phenomenology: Value Is Vitality
musingmind.org
In its simplest terms, value theory asks what value is, and how we might cultivate more of it. Or, as one group of academics put it, value theory “is about how, [in] a living natural world, human beings and societal institutions co-create satisfying ways of living.
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
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