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Snapshot of a “theoretical” life
– Loves learning for its own sake; regards wisdom as a permanent quest.
– Accepts leisure (scholē) not chiefly for recreation but for reflection.
– Feels reverence for what is permanent and overarching—nature, being, the divine—rather than for shifting public opinion.
– Skeptical of power when it threatens the
... See moreEvery adult senses that their attention is slipping, that their thinking is flattening, that their world is flooded with noise, no neutrality, and that no institution really exists to protect them. Your brain is for sale, my guy - as your attention goes, so does your cognition, so does your sense of depth and certainty.
Confidence, optimism, and... See more
Confidence, optimism, and... See more
Everyone is Gambling and No One is Happy
Why Strauss thinks something “critical” is lost
1. Moral content is emptied out. If the law is only a fence around private desires, it cannot speak authoritatively about better or worse ways of living.
2. Civic virtue withers. Citizens are turned into clients of the sovereign, focused on individual gain, not on common deliberation.
3. Natural right is... See more
1. Moral content is emptied out. If the law is only a fence around private desires, it cannot speak authoritatively about better or worse ways of living.
2. Civic virtue withers. Citizens are turned into clients of the sovereign, focused on individual gain, not on common deliberation.
3. Natural right is... See more
Readwise
The opposite of agency is learned helplessness. If people believe that we can’t do very much to stop the world’s problems, it’s unsurprising that they’d be terrified to bring children into the world. But this seems like a mental trap that we can, and should, teach people to resist falling into. As Clare Coffey writes in “Failure to Cope ‘Under
... See moreNadia Asparouhova • Cultivating Agency
Generation labels are effectively like astrology or MBTI for people who think they’re smarter than that. It turns out that across history, the one commonality that brings people of all ages together is hating young people and their behaviour while ignoring the intertwining social, economic and historical contexts that made them that way - contexts... See more
you people can't do anything
This is arguably the most foundational principle of productivity. Make fast decisions with limited certainty.