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The hardest reading course on the internet.

Come read Plutarch, Machiavelli, Bacon, Locke, Veblen, Strauss, Girard, and many others..

8 students only. Full scholarships available.

Oct 2–Feb 4. Apply by Sep 30
https://t.co/6c6a4SYN9d

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@dansgoldin 4 / Fast

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@StephenPiment @millerman You will find no dogma here sir. It is good to reason about everything. And having done so, one would be hard pressed to disagree with Girard's conclusion.

This is not the hill on which Nietzsche can be defended, if such a defense is worth mounting at all.

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@StephenPiment @millerman One might, and one would be wrong.

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I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned and have revealed them to little children.

—Matt. 11:25

[Ben Landau-Taylor @benlandautaylor]

Rene Girard made a stellar career out of locking on to a critical question that usually gets swept under the rug—Why did every single ancient civilization practice human sacrifice, and why did the Old World stop in the 1st millennium BC? His answers were kind of nonsense, but the underlying historical observation that human sacrifice is the civilized default and we need an active reason to explain why we *don't* do that anymore is one of those things that you can't unsee once you see it. I still don't have a decent explanation and it remains a stone in my shoe.

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@psychosort Sulla entered the chat 😏

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@mmjukic Peter Thiel has entered the chat. 😏

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@mmjukic Keep at it Marko. Sane and sober views of reality seem to take a long time to sink in, but when they finally do, the reversal is complete and total.

It's not called prophecy for nothing.

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The worst that a prince may expect from a hostile people is abandonment; but from hostile nobles he has to fear that they'll rise against him; for they always come forward in time to save themselves, and to obtain favors from him whom they expect to prevail.

— Machiavelli

[Things Hidden Movie @_THINGS_HIDDEN]

Joyeux Noël! Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of René Girard is now live on YouTube—for FREE!

🎥 Watch here: https://t.co/NpnzPzlKi9

#HappyBirthdayRené

@cribbenMerrill

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@JohnathanBi The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.

—Thiel, 2009

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@leo_caesaris Phenomenal. Video source?

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@JSMilbank Yes, the acting is a bit stiff, but you can't expect more from the interns 😏

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@Apolloniann_ There's a metaphor in here somewhere 😏

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But where danger threatens,
That which saves from it also grows.

—Hölderlin, Patmos

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

Most developed countries have terrible demographics, putting enormous pressure on pension and healthcare spending. Then add low GDP growth, higher interest rates, growing immigration backlash, high existing debt/GDP, and voter opposition to tax increases.

The social safety net was based on a growing working age population. That's over. This is the fundamental economic problem of coming decades and it has no politically viable solution.

Things that cannot last forever won't. The only way to get the necessary voter and political will for fundamental change would be an extreme crisis. The reforms at that point would fundamentally change the social contract, and hence living standards.

The only hope I see is if technological advancements can significantly increase productivity growth. Society has essentially made a huge bet that tech will bail out the political system. It better.

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@nickdothutton What can be: 🇱🇧
Burdened by what has been: 🇬🇧

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A must-read for any self-respecting technologist.

[Tobias Huber @TobiasAHuber]

Here's our latest paper "'Things Hidden': Mimesis, Technology, and the Apocalypse," which @ByrneHobart and I presented at the 2023 @NOV1TATE conference: https://t.co/j75joCK0rU

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@mmjukic This ought to be the standard disclosure pop-up users see when signing up for a Robinhood account.

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@perelandraring 👀

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Very excited to chat with @William_Blake about stoicism, decline, and the philosophy of progress.

A few public seats are available. DM if interested.

Sat Feb 3, 10:45 AM–12 PM PT