Dancers and those who can’t hear the music
“Those who dance are thought to be insane by those who cannot hear the music.” (Channeling Germaine de Staël)
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Christians of the world, unite? (Under Putin)
Russia as the surprise center of internationalism: 1922: Workers of the world, unite! Lenin channeling Karl Marx. 2022: Christians of the world, unite! Putin, channeled by these guys:
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From Wisconsin lecture trip: Hayek quotation
My three-lecture tour got me this photo op:
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2/22/22 or 22/2/22 ?
Americans and Canadians write it as they say it: “February 22, 2022” is written as 2/2/22. Others write it from smallest to largest unit of time: day/month/year, so 22/2/22. As for the numerology, various sources have it that 2 means balance, femininity, intuition, peace, union, new beginnings, and related stuff. In Pythagoras’s system, 2 is
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How to Win Every Argument
Easy-peasy: How to Win Every Argument: Useful line #1: “Everyone who disagrees with me is Hitler.” Useful line #2: “All who disagree with me have a false consciousness instilled in them by the ruling class.” That is: All of your adversaries are either monsters or victims.
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Milwaukee Art Museum — put it on your travel list
The structure overlooking Lake Michigan is magnificent. Paired here with a painting from the museum’s collection—another love-of-light-and-space work.
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Most stuff is getting cheaper: Cost of goods measured in labor time needed to buy
How long does one need to work, on average, to afford a given thing? Measuring the (mostly) falling costs of various goods across time.
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Anti-body Idealism
Plato’s Idealism: “If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself … no pure knowledge is possible in the company of the body … so long as we are alive, we shall continue closest to knowledge if
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