ideas I want to write about

Attention is now, what people think money is to politics. Money is still valuable, in places where people aren’t looking; like a state rep election, where nobody knows who’s running and they just need money; money is very powerful when there’s not much attention.

i’m tired and

my window to the world

has no curtains

i want to close my eyes

Even when today’s intellectuals do attempt to step outside of their academic niche, their knowledge is often questioned because of the very nature of specialization. A historian writing on politics or a physicist dissecting philosophy might be met with skepticism because intellectual authority is tightly policed within rigid boundaries.

Fear of war, fear of invasion, fear of plague, fears that make it simply not worthwhile constructing things, or planting trees or even planning next year's crops. And fear of the supernatural, which means that you daren't question anything or change anything. The late antique world was full of meaningless rituals, mystery religions, that destroyed ... See more