nico λ
@nicomeemes
just a hacker tryna survive
nico λ
@nicomeemes
just a hacker tryna survive
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 moreThe 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
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