The mirage of progress

“Africans are notoriously religious” - John Mbiti (1969) African Religions and Philosophy. To contextualize this more: when Mbiti says African peoples had ‘no concept of the future’ he doesn’t mean they couldn’t plan, prepare, or think ahead, rather what he’s saying is the future does not exist as an abstract, infinite horizon (he... See more

tfw you’re looking through your notes and you see the same “breakthrough” 48 different times over the past 10 years, almost in a predictable periodic pattern of reoccurrence

Japan is extremely inconvenient. And that’s preserved its fashion culture