@spaceangelvoice I think this is faulty reasoning, if the masses will butcher the truth then they’ll butcher “noble lies” even more destructively. Not to mention that self-appointed wardens of truth can’t be trusted to wisely and benevolently pick which truths to hide vs. release
@BovrilG I like to think that you're constantly teetering on the edge of rabid antisemitism and only held back by your unbridled yearning for the Willendorfian figure of Andrea Dworkin
@atlanticesque@si_rubinstein They weren’t parasites at all, they spread technology + founded towns and cities + financed and ran education + cleared land and built real capital + preserved texts + indirectly grew state capacity by repopularizing the use of written documents for admin after the fall of Rome
Extremely dissatisfied to see Cambridge (where I studied) no longer uphold the rigorous academic standards that defined my time there, studying at Cambridge, the university that I went to
@JoeMcCarthyStan Can you blame a Chasid who grew up in the impoverished hellscape of Bnei Brak for being seduced by the glittering skyscrapers of Hebron?