A ‘no’ sung alone is a cry. Sung together, a hymn—not to a leader, but to the act of refusing as one. With each distinct, the crownless shall be king again.
@helscom@nntaleb postulating a false dilemma based on what you think is befitting as to limit his assesment strictly on that period is not a very serious inquiry within this war of ideas. The war of ideas, too much or too little matters little compared to crimes against humanity. Face judgement!
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A physical book is a real object, anchored. If you read a particular edition, you remember not only the contents but the object itself: its cover, typography, smell, even where a passage sat on the page.
Books organize themselves in memory by place --the ancient method of loci.
Digital text does not exist.
one of our most fundamental human drives is to create tools that manipulate the world around us for productive ends; in that sense one of the most artificial things you can possibly do is to eschew technology outright
@runaway_vol bla bla bla you're not sorry but you do like materialism to fill the void of not finding happiness in the concretes so you found it in the abstract. gratz.
@No5mallf3at I'm enjoying my read in progress of Karl Popper's conjectures and refutation, in it he talks about the critique of pure reason as a reaction almost against Newton's science, vis a vis awakened by the slumber of Descartes