Jamie Wheal

Founder @flowgenome. Author, Stealing Fire & Recapture the Rapture. Neuroanthropologist. Read the HomeGrown Humans newsletter:

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“Dictators always lie about what they’ve done, but are often quite plain about what they want to do.”

–Gary Kasparov

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“The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.”

G.K. Chesterton

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What the UAP Pentagon papers won't tell us...

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“Most economists will acknowledge that technological progress can cause some adjustment problems in the short run. What is rarely noted is that the short run can be a lifetime.”

–Oxford economist Carl Benedikt Frey

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Last days of Rome–we're in it

"“Musk’s attorneys said asking about Burning Man and drugs at trial would be “inflammatory” and “irrelevant” and asked to exclude those subjects from the trial. The federal judge overseeing the case, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, ruled last month that OpenAI can’t bring up ketamine in court, but that Burning Man is fair game.”

#rhinoket

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“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

–Blaise Pascal

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“The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends."

–Oscar Wilde

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““The next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.””

–Wendell Berry

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“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”

–Merchant of Venice

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“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”

–Wendell Berry

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'When a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king, it is the palace that becomes a circus,"

–Turkish proverb

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@sbkaufman that was kinda where we ended up--don't really feel there's a credible spot past the fact that if hard times (aka "trauma") are the lot of humans most everywhere, then resilience is the anomaly and x factor worth studying, not hardship. (like your Light Triad)

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"If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime."

–James Frazer, The Golden Bough

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“From the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”

–Kant

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“Every animal is sad after coitus, except the human female and the rooster.”

–Ancient Greek physician Galen

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The “fundamental weakness of feminist analysis” is its failure “to see that men may need the status of the main provider role to give them a sufficient reason to become fully involved, and stay involved, in the longer-term draggy business of family life.”

–British sociologist Geoff Dench

#softpatriarchy
#givethedogabone

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the average American consumed in 1830: 7.1 undiluted gallons a year, the equivalent of four shots of 80-proof whiskey every day.

(so we can blame the depopulation crisis squarely on Huberman and Attia)