Gus Guerrero
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Gus Guerrero
The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play . It seems to describe a life where it’s just fun to be reading, learning, writing, and collaborating on... See more
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A Memetics Compendium
An overview of memetics, its definitions, applications, particularly in the military context, and discussions surrounding its scientific validity, cultural influence, and potential for influencing behavior and societal change.
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“Don’t be a hunter-gatherer in the wild, competing for food. go build yourself a magical forest-farm, and grow your garden of nourishing things… keep growing your world. Feed yourself, and have plenty of abundance left over — to feed your guests.”
he can write about anything he wants, but this freedom feels like a prison. “The less free I am, the freer I appear to be,” he tells the reader, in one of the book’s many takedowns of the creative life.
“Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middleclass men and women who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will last forever or else are so frightened it won’t that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.”
was better to hear the unhappy details of such a life from the lips of the man who had led it rather than from someone else. Mothers often portrayed fathers in too flattering a light. Obituaries rarely told the whole story, especially when their subjects led classified lives.