Fox Sterling

Reflections from within the digital panopticon

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“Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders” - Mary Parker follett

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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time, is now.

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“What’s evil? It’s that large part of Every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with god on his side. It’s that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive.”

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Banks sell umbrellas, except when it’s raining

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Benevolent slavery is the only good that people want for others, but not for themselves - Lincoln

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Blooming in fall

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An era of mockery, skepticism, an corrosion, a petty era with the ironic intellectual in the limelight, and behind him the mob of youth, coarse, cynical, and nasty, without enthusiasm, without ideals, ready to mate or to kill on sight.

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[ ] was a cruel religion. It did not elevate you or me among it’s priests; perhaps it injured us both. Yet despite this the era that has just passed was a hundred times nearer to my heart than the era that seem to be approaching today;

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@EconTalker This one really brought me back to the episode with Ian McGilchrist, and felt like a big analogy to “the master and emissary” (logic ultimately being subservient to the creative facility)

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Stay true to yourself, and fly closer to the sun.

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And history is terrible because it so offend ends up the playground of the immature; for the young Nero, Bonaparte, for the easily roused mobs of children whose simulated passions and simplistic poses suddenly metamorphose into a catastrophically real reality —Mila Kundera

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@jonstewart Alternative titles for this weeks podcast: “encounters with incompetence, why the dems are failing”, “attempting to shake intellectual integrity from a bureaucrat”, “somebody call an ambulance, but not for me” , and “how did management consultants come to lead the party of labor?

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“In the general throng, many a fool receives decorations and titles” - Goethe

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The privilege of absurdity is to make sense of life through nonsense — John gray

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@weeklyshowpod the lunatic-led pubescent 'geniuses' over at DOGE made a dashboard that tracks how tax dollars are spent through the government. Wasn't this one of the "government moonshots" you were describing / asking for?
https://t.co/A4TdmC5ZDv

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In a meritocracy, the value of labour is relative to how difficult the skills are to achieve. It is a game of scarcity. This is the rubric by which we can understand the most powerful institutions of academia, law, finance, etc.

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Here's the darkest secrets of the high masters of the universe that (((THEY))) don't want you to know:

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@EconTalker this comic from Zach Weinersmith reminded me of Econtalk and the recurring skepticism towards dubious correlations around efficiency, saving lives, and well being…

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Simone Weil wrote that ‘Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity’; if so, then surveillance is the opposite of attention.

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“You, on the other hand, must work for the sake of the whole, for the sake of the future. Be afraid neither of the highly placed nor the strong, but be sage and always inwardly well-appointed. Know the limit, know the seasons, learn these things.”