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Socrates was put to death because most people, rightfully prefer myth to critical thinking. Strauss understood that Athens and Jerusalem are two competing ideals, two mutually exclusive models, for organizing society. Athens espouses the ideal of negative capability, but Jerusalem espouses the ideal of obedience to the Divine Law.
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
‘End of the World Vibes’: Why Culture Can’t Stop Thinking About Apocalypse
Dorian Lynskeytheguardian.com“What does it mean to think of revolution not as destroying capitalism, but as ceasing to create capitalism?”
Stop making Capitalism – John Holloway
https://johnholloway.com.mx/2011/07/30/stop-making-capitalism/
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Stop making Capitalism – John Holloway
https://johnholloway.com.mx/2011/07/30/stop-making-capitalism/
via Instapaper
bangers and on capitalism
This whole piece is just ::chef's kiss::
Description begins with visualization of what it is you want the reader to experience. It ends with your translating what you see in your mind into words on the page.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
in trying to figure out the brain, the obstacle is that we have no finer instrument than the brain itself for the purpose. The greatest hindrance to objective knowledge is our own subjective presence
Alan Watts • Tao: The Watercourse Way
Highlights:
The frontier isn’t volume—it’s discernment. And in that shift, taste has become a survival skill.
Not taste in the superficial sense—not trend-chasing, not aesthetic mimicry, not expensive minimalism for the sake of status. Real taste. The kind that signals coherence. Clarity. The ability to choose what matters in a world drowning in what doesn’t.
Because when abundance is infinite, attention is everything. And what you give your attention to—what you consume, what you engage with, what you amplify—becomes a reflection of how you think.
We associate aesthetic with surface. But good taste is deep structure. It’s the throughline in someone’s life. You can see it in the design of their home, the cadence of their speech, the way they treat people, the books on their shelves.
Underneath all of this is something deeper: taste as a spiritual orientation. Not in the religious sense, but in the felt sense of alignment. Of knowing what your energy wants. Of feeling what’s harmonious and what’s out of tune.
Jerrod Carmichael On Filming Family, Consulting 'Anonymous’ On His 'Reality Show'| Making a Scene
m.youtube.comTIL Tom Cruise once briefly ran MGM, video idea?
Correction, it wasn't MGM, it was United Artists, a subsidiary of MGM. And he didnt quite run it but instead his producing partner and former agent.
It didn't work out.