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"The Dawn of Everything" by Graeber and Wengrow should be required reading in every Western Civ class.

At the very least Chapter Two: Wicked Liberty: The Indigenous Critique and the Myth of Progress.

I resent how les choses urgentes push out les choses importantes.

It is time and past time to stop ranking cultures by their technological complexity.

It is an idea promulgated by 18th century Europeans desperate to find some reason, any reason to disregard non-Europeans.

It's in the hands of the accounts now, but lordy am I tired assembling the documentation.

(Mostly because it was a struggle for autistic me to understand what they were really asking for)

Alot of unhatched chickens being counted today.

It's not mine, but I've always been fond of A Shrivel of Critics

Was happiness not happiness because it lasted but a short time? Alas we cannot always be happy
-- Aron Nimzowitsch "My System"

Easy peasy: Higher Ed can make better citizens according to mid-twentieth standards.

It seems to me that Hans Christian Anderson's tale, "The Nightingale" is very much a story for right now

americanliterature.com/author/hans-...

Do you agree?

Il Dottore, but probably because I played him once. I developed great sympathy for his puffed-up buffoonery.

Make something up. They neither know nor care.

An addendum to the Rules of Acquisition:

1. Commodify it

2. If you can't commodify it, gamify it.

3. Once you've gamified it, you can commodify it.

4. Profit!

The best rulers are hardly known by their subjects, for everything seems to come naturally.

Next are those who are loved and praised.

Next are those who are feared.

The worst are those that are despised.

[Tao Te Ching chapter 17, slightly adapted]

When the people fall to wrangling, the way has been lost.

Stop privatizing space.

🎵 Who are the flowers in your neighborhood?
In your neighborhood.
In your neighborhood.
Who are the flowers in your neighborhood?
The flowers that you meet,
The flowers that you greet
Each Day.🎵

Such great whimsy

Looks fake

Vaguely reminiscent of "Vaguely Reminiscent."

Look upon my socks, ye mighty, and despair

Nine-thirty.
Twilight fades to darkness.
We're not in Florida anymore.

It seems fixed now. Must have been a passing crow.

Aren't. Feeds aren't updating.

It's borked again. Feeds are updating. Replies aren't loading.

Golden Age SF gave us so many wrong ideas.
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"The Long Road to War" examines the root causes of WWI.

Both fascinating and depressing.

It's really about little too advanced for me. I have read everything twice, still there are bits I can't quite get.

But yes it is fun, and French prose style is so very different.

Arsène Lupin: gentleman-cambrioleur.

It's a student edition, but still ...

You don't