Sublime

When a core belief is questioned, though, we tend to shut down rather than open up. It’s as if there’s a miniature dictator living inside our heads,8 controlling the flow of facts to our minds, much like Kim Jong-un controls the press in North Korea. The technical term for this in psychology is the totalitarian ego, and its job is to keep out threa

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Ainsi, une génération a grandi sans qu’on lui enseigne ce que l’on appelait jadis à juste titre le « bon sens pratique » qui avait guidé les générations précédentes. La Génération Y, à qui l’on a souvent rabâché qu’elle avait reçu la meilleure éducation possible, a en réalité souffert d’une grave négligence intellectuelle et morale. Les relativiste

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This, I believe, is what happened to many of America’s key institutions in the mid-to-late 2010s. They got stupider en masse because social media instilled in their members a chronic fear of getting darted. The shift was most pronounced in universities, scholarly associations, creative industries, and political organizations at every level (nationa... See more

No smartphones before high school. Parents should delay children’s entry into round-the-clock internet access by giving only basic phones (phones with limited apps and no internet browser) before ninth grade (roughly age 14). No social media before 16. Let kids get through the most vulnerable period of brain development before connecting them to a

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Les deux plus grandes causes du mal sont deux choses que l’on pense être bonnes et que nous essayons d’encourager chez nos enfants: une forte estime de soi et l’idéalisme moral. Avoir une bonne estime de soi ne cause pas directement de la violence, mais lorsque l’estime de soi positive est peu réaliste ou présente un caractère narcissique, elle est

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As a libertarian who holds the New Testament as a seminal text, Thiel seeks to increase individual freedoms while preventing runaway Mimetic violence.

It stuns me that ~50% of people under 30 say that Mangione was justified in that murder. (The best take on this: An Astonishing Level of Dehumanization, from Peter Wehner in the The Atlantic .)