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[Eppur si muove @f8gonzal]

@lcvelez @RevistaSemana Luis Carlos, en On Bullshit, Harry Frakfurt habla como ni la verdad ni la mentira importan cuando se trata de imponer una narrativa de toma del poder. Petro es un maestro con sus redes y bodegueros. Ojala lo hayamos aprendido porque estivimos a punto de perder la democracia.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

These books will give you a better education than almost any school curriculum in the West today.

In our academic system, you can go from Pre-K to PhD without reading a word of Homer, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Augustine, Dante, or Milton.

We set up the Athenaeum Book Club to fight back. If schools and universities won't teach the Great Books, we must form our own reading circles. These are some of the texts we've read together, or will cover soon.

Join our reading group to study the great works in dialogue with others.

We are just starting The Brothers Karamazov.

If you've been on the fence about joining our group, now's the time. You do NOT want to miss this.

We're reading Brothers K. over the next 6 weeks. The next discussion is on August 18th.

Take out a paid subscription if you'd like to support us and join the discussions directly — it makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate.

You'll get:

- Live book club discussions (biweekly)
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- Ability to vote on what we read next

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See you inside!

[Naruto @NarutoNolimits]

Jordan Peterson read Stephen Fry's famous answer about God back to him, then asked him what holding it actually costs:

Fry once said that if he ever met God, he would ask about bone cancer in children.

Peterson brings it up, but not to attack it. He thinks the argument works.

Peterson: "Ivan wins the argument, but Alyosha is the better person."

Fry: "I don't believe there is such a being, but if there were, I would have many bones to pick with him."

Then Peterson turns it. The argument is powerful. The problem is where it takes you.

Peterson: "there's a direction that goes in that's nihilistic and resentful and vengeful and angry, and all understandable, but it doesn't look to me like there's anything good in it."

He says he tested it on himself.

Peterson: "I've had my reasons to be resentful and angry, especially recently, and because I'm suffering a lot of pain."

Peterson: "there was nothing in that that didn't make it worse, and that therefore that must be wrong, even though it's justifiable."

Fry's answer is that he was never angry to begin with.

Fry: "I'm not really resentful and angry about the fact that there's evil in the world. I'm sorrowful very often."

Fry: "most people are so good, so anxious to be good, are idiotically good."

Fry: "every time I go off to sleep I think, how did I screw up today, how can I be better tomorrow."

Then he challenges Peterson's phrase, a higher mode of being.

Fry: "show me someone who has a higher mode of existence than I do."

Peterson: "that higher mode of existence is what your conscience tortures you for not attaining."

Peterson: "you cannot create your own values. The values impose themselves on you independent of your will."

His evidence isn't scripture. It's juvenile rats.

Peterson: "if the big rat doesn't let the little rat win 30 percent of the time, the little rat will stop inviting him to play."

Reciprocity, before anyone believed anything.

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

"If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change.

I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance."

~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.21

[giuliano da empoli @giulianode]

Mon livre, « L’heure des prédateurs » sort aujourd’hui chez @Gallimard

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

Scientists at Rutgers have constructed a 3D rendering of what the ultimate Roman Emperor most likely looked like.

[solofichajes123 @solofichajes123]

🗣️Éxtasis en la televisión de Brasil narrando el gol de España: "Te amo Ferrán Torres. El fútbol vence a las artimañas. ¡Anula este gol también si te atreves! Una selección que se acobarda en la final, que se encierra atrás y no tira ni una vez a puerta, no merece ganar el Mundial"

[Rossst.03 @Rossst_03]

Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel laureate who measured Wall Street's "skill" and found luck:

"I once studied eight years of a wealth firm's trades. the correlation between a trader's good years was basically zero. they were paid millions for luck, and every one of them believed it was skill. that belief is the casino's favorite product."

this free lecture holds the entire "proven track record" the gurus sell, from the Nobel laureate who checked the records and found luck.

at the board it's simple. Kahneman took eight years of a firm's trading results and asked whether the good traders stayed good. the year-to-year correlation was almost zero, so last year's star was no more likely to win this year than anyone else. their skill was a story painted over a coin flip. the casino runs on the same illusion, it just lets you keep believing it until the money is gone. that's the whole "track record", minus the marketing.

Kahneman published this and won the Nobel in 2002. it has been free ever since. same point as my casino piece above: a hot streak is not skill, and the house profits from everyone who cannot tell the difference.

the study is free and anyone can read it. what nobody can sell you is the humility to treat your own winning streak as luck until years of evidence say otherwise. that humility is the whole edge, and no lecture can hand it to you.

[Ismael Sanz @sanz_ismael]

El mundo es lógico, pero no todo puede decirse con palabras. Wittgenstein: El lenguaje no explica la realidad: la muestra. “De lo que no se puede hablar, hay que callar” en el Tractatus. El lenguaje refleja hechos mediante proposiciones lógicas. El significado nace del uso, de las reglas sociales y de la experiencia compartida. El lenguaje como práctica, no como espejo https://t.co/9b1UxFHoYA

[Friedrich Nietzsche Notebook @QuoteNietzsche]

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

[Oliver Stuenkel 🇧🇷 @OliverStuenkel]

Washington pode estar plantando as sementes do próximo Fidel Castro

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

Epictetus’ instructions:

- Separate things into what you control and what you don’t
- Choose not to be complicit in getting offended
- Prep for adversity in advance
- Realize every situation has 2 handles—grab the right one
- Memento Mori—let death put everything in perspective

[Sebastián Zuleta-Henríquez @szuletah]

Píldora para la memoria de Colombia…

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we reject any evidence of the bamboozle. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

— Carl Sagan

[Paulo Coelho Quotes @PauloCoelho_DQ]

“Don't waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear.”

| Paulo Coelho

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity…you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral. - Arthur Schopenhauer

[Libertario 🟨⬛ @QuotesforGoal]

“Periodista: ¿Cree que los jóvenes deben interesarse por la política?

Jorge Luis Borges: Yo no sé. A mí no me interesó nunca la política. Me interesa más la ética. Creo que si cada uno actúa éticamente eso puede tener un efecto político muy grande”

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero