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@jplatitudesReflections from within the digital panopticon
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“You, on the other hand, must work for the sake of the whole, for the sake of the future. Be afraid neither of the highly placed nor the strong, but be sage and always inwardly well-appointed. Know the limit, know the seasons, learn these things.”
The secret of human existence does not consist in living, merely, but in what one lives for. It ithiht a firm idea of what he is to live for, man will not consent to live and will sooner destroy himself than remain on the earth, even though all around him there be loaves (bread).
A great proportion of the worlds resentment comes from the belief that there is an order to things
The mistake most people make is believing where they are has some greater meaning. Especially with respect to their own contribution to that position. The vast vast vast majority of successful people are lucky, and the rest are mostly just vicious.
It’s better to be buried anonymously and your echoes through time discovered only after death than the reverse
“In a closed society where everyone is guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves the only final sin is stupidity”
Single best description of AI I’ve ever read, from the great Ted Chiang.
“The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. The greater the stupidity, the closer to the matter at hand. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.” -Dostoyevsky
this is why smart people are great at giving advice but not taking it.
Secular learning, having united itself into a great power, has studied all the celestial things in the holy books, and after the cruel analysis of the scholars of this world there remains of all the earlier holiness absolutely nothing at all. -Dostoyevsky
Dividing the united, uniting the divided, is the very life of Nature; this is the eternal systole and diastole, the eternal coalescence and separation, the inhalation and exhalation of the world in which we live, and where our existence is woven. -Goethe
”you must push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you” -Flannery O’Connor
“The idea of progress is essentially time worship— the belief that things are valuable not for what they are but for what they may someday become.” - Wyndham Lewis
Today the good life means making full use of science and technology without succumbing to the illusion that they can make us free, seeking peace without hoping for a world without war, and cherishing freedom with the knowledge that it's an interval between anarchy and tyranny.
Life has turned to a show where even those who make the play cannot escape
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