Vita Contemplativa
Man is tabula rasa to the extent that a fertile woman has no ovum.
Hi there, in what seems like a break while I take care of serious business off the internet, I switched up my presentation today. I hope you like the quotes below. But more importantly I hope they provoke contemplation in you for that is my goal in the end.
So, enjoy.
- Man is tabula rasa to the extent that a fertile woman has no ovum.
- After defeating the Trojans, the Greeks must fight the Trojan Horse.
- The Diderot effect applies not only to material items but to ideas and knowledge as well.
- What can keep an Eskimo warm will keep a man at the equator warm.
- What makes for good thinking is categorizing things appropriately like a dutiful librarian.
- "Instead of asking which came first, the chicken or the egg, it suddenly seemed that a chicken was an egg’s idea for getting more eggs." -Marshall McLuhan.
- “Why should you give over your kitchen knives and scalpels to someone who can only conceive of swords?” Anon (I will add the source when I remember who said it).
- "May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change"- Edmond Kirsch
- Parturient montes nascetur ridiculus mus
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Have a thoughtful week.
> The Diderot effect applies not only to material items but to ideas and knowledge as well
Luxury Beliefs and the Midwit Matrix applies here. The former is ideas that are utopian and only applicable to the upper middle and upper classes to feel less insecure about their merit being "not of the people". The latter are ideas that are clearly made by the comfortable middle ("woke") and/or lower middle (conspiracy) classes to scapegoat people for ritualistic purposes. These typologies are worth writing for later, but for now it seems that this problem has been diced too many ways but no unifying hypothesis has been made (yet).
https://cactus.substack.com/p/its-the-midwits-stupid https://sachink.substack.com/p/midwits-and-meta-contrarianism https://eriktorenberg.substack.com/p/the-hypocrisy-of-elites https://novum.substack.com/p/elite-overproduction-a-story-of-russia/comment/7119404 https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/why-do-most-popular-science-books https://cactus.substack.com/p/ebasf3-some-bad-psychoanalysis https://cactus.substack.com/p/firehose-of-bullshit-2-the-permanent