Michal

[badger @badger69420]

You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only option

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Now Plato – the most dangerous philosopher who ever lived.

Aristotle was his student, his corrector, and in the end his antidote. The argument between them is not ancient history. It is the argument the West is currently losing.

1. Plato distrusts the world. Everything visible, tangible, particular — the market, the body, the individual — is mere shadow to him. Reality is the Form, the Ideal, the perfect abstraction accessible only to the philosopher. This is not just a metaphysics. It is a politics. If the real is abstract and only the philosopher can access it, then only the philosopher should rule. The Republic follows necessarily from the theory of Forms. Plato built the first blueprint for technocratic tyranny and called it philosophy.

2. His perfect state is governed by philosopher-kings – selected, trained, and self-perpetuating. They know what is good for you better than you do, because they have access to the Forms and you do not. This is every credentialist institution, every expert class, every central planning committee that ever existed, dressed in a toga and speaking Greek. The technocrat ruling by divine right of competitive examination is a Platonic philosopher-king who has forgotten the philosophy but kept the power.

3. Idealism and absolutism are the intellectual disease of humanity. By avoiding collision with reality, they produce arrogant delusion – and arrogant delusion combined with power produces totalitarianism. This is the precise opposite of what built Western strength: individual freedom, competition, and meritocracy – a system that encourages everyone to create maximum value and gives the greatest room to those who do it best. Instead of a system of obedience to intellectual and physical bullies.

4. It started seriously with Plato, reached its apex with Hegel, and today’s Marxisms and deconstructionisms are merely the dishwater left behind. What they all share is the same social profile of origin: blasé, bored boys from wealthy homes, untouched by the pressure of real survival, inventing their idealisms in comfortable detachment from consequences. Unfortunately, detachment from reality impresses many simple minds with intellectual pretensions. They listened. The results were fatal. Millions of corpses.

5. Plato invented the "Noble Lie" – the idea that the ruling class should deceive the population for its own good. He considered it governance. Every ideology that has ever lied systematically to its population was, consciously or not, working from Plato’s manual. Every ministry of propaganda, every content moderation policy removing unauthorized narratives is Plato’s Republic with updated technology.

6. Aristotle walked into Plato’s Academy, studied there for twenty years, and then systematically dismantled everything. Where Plato saw Forms, Aristotle saw particulars. Where Plato trusted the philosopher, Aristotle trusted the middle class. One tradition produces science, common law, and the free market. The other produces utopias – and the violence required to build them. And in the process, two and a half thousand years of sophisticated abstraction buried the most obvious truth available to any living organism: that our purpose is to pass life forward, to create the most flourishing possible next generation. Simple. Obvious. Covered over by millennia of sophisticated raving of Platonists.

7. Every great man-made catastrophe of the modern era has Platonic DNA – the French Revolution’s Republic of Reason, Marxism’s scientific laws of history, Mao’s New Man. Each one began with a Form and required that the imperfect world be forced to conform to it. The pile of bodies is not an accident of implementation. It is what happens when you take Plato seriously enough to act on him. Aristotle’s answer sounds less glamorous: look at what actually exists, work with what human beings actually are, build institutions that survive contact with reality. Sounds less beautiful. It is why we are still here.

[mickpl @mickpll]

(ukradzione z Wykopu od Czoso, ale nikt nie pilnował)

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• Patrzysz ile zarabia profesor na uczelni i myslisz, ze ktos cie wkreca

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[old memory @old_memory]

pov: friday evening after school in 2008

[Michal @Michal__Rsa]

@grey4626 Tldr

[Michalina Kobla @Michalina_Kobla]

‼️‼️dziś minoł termin wielkiej płyty bloki w całej polsce sie ROZPIERDALAJA !!!

[Michal @Michal__Rsa]

@wesbos You meant @adonisframework ?

[Michal @Michal__Rsa]

@rachidovitch79 @Brutal_0s Bruh, what did you expect. 10 sec and everyone was dead.

[LinkedIn Lunatics @LinkedInLunat1c]

@meme_ancient LinkedIn is the biggest joke fr

[kache @yacineMTB]

THE COST OF INACTION THROUGH DELIBERATION IS ALWAYS FAR GREATER THAN THE COST OF MAKING A MISTAKE.

DO
THINGS

[Steve Burns @SJosephBurns]

Warren Buffett:

“The secret to life is weak competition.”

“How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game except chess.”

[Marcus Aurelius Wisdom @lawsofaurelius]

Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

[Michal @Michal__Rsa]

@unusual_whales Lol it's the CEO. He tries to sell you a product.

[dax @thdxr]

red flags in a react codebase

🚩 uses react

[Michal @Michal__Rsa]

@ricwe123 Why should poles care about nordstream? Why did you do this comparison?

[Michal @Michal__Rsa]

@_andrewthecoder @calebporzio Same

[Michal @Michal__Rsa]

@BrettFromDJ Go live in China with this attitude

[Michal @Michal__Rsa]

@FFmpeg Let's go