Notes on “When We Cease To Understand The World”
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Dark historiography for capricious minds
incredible that this was translated from spanish I usually don’t think we should study history too intensively, because we should rather study ‘history in expectation’, and not index too much on the vagaries of what actually happened. But I’m appreciating this book for suppressing my hedonic baseline. How lucky are we when we don’t fear violence? Navino Island features in the setting of my hedonic baseline. “Sometimes I wonder if they could pack us in any tighter,” says the lady on the United flight. Holocaust as extreme tall poppy syndrome; TPS as eternal enemy. Unifying mathematics is a…
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