This was wonderful; the post that finally got me to create an account here. I got quite a few sensible chuckles and a few hearty laughs out of your list. I think we’ve been reading similar books recently (Graeber’s Dawn of Everything? :) )
My contribution is to remind the participants that a somewhat recurring theme (something of an original in western philosophy—i.e. Socrates) in history is of wise people enjoying themselves too much and getting murdered by the people who’d grown increasingly scared/estranged/horrified by them.
Heretical thinking is fun, but in the real world there are people who would harm you for exposing them to it. Practice safe heresy kids :)
This was wonderful; the post that finally got me to create an account here. I got quite a few sensible chuckles and a few hearty laughs out of your list. I think we’ve been reading similar books recently (Graeber’s Dawn of Everything? :) )
My contribution is to remind the participants that a somewhat recurring theme (something of an original in western philosophy—i.e. Socrates) in history is of wise people enjoying themselves too much and getting murdered by the people who’d grown increasingly scared/estranged/horrified by them.
Heretical thinking is fun, but in the real world there are people who would harm you for exposing them to it.
Practice safe heresy kids :)
Also, check out the substack :) - https://rogersbacon.substack.com/
Thanks! Yup, just finished and enjoyed DoE :)
A good reminder, I’ll start getting worried when discussion of these heresies moves beyond niche internet message boards.