Mike CernovichVerified account

@TalebWisdom @nntaleb Mike, would love to hear about what "lindy" old books you would suggest. Taleb has a very good list.

Hate speech, racism, sexism blah blah blah. They just don't mean what they used to.

Modern Philosophy Professors go to Cathedrals with gasoline and lighter fluid.

That's a great point. English is now "Language Arts and Communications". History is now "Social Sciences". I'm grateful for my Classical Liberal Arts Education, but those professors are the last people I'd want influencing public policy, much less university governance...

I can attest, I've gotten a much richer education from my local library than my 4 years in college

Please, lets not compare Dave "Yelp review the construction standards" Rubin to Socrates

You aren’t an academic if you’re unable to learn about and consider all views regardless of your own Scholar rules 101

You should have a talk with Dave on his show @RubinReport

Also make sure to read the original texts and not the summaries in your textbooks. Also, watch out for the British bastardised translations that are meant to confuse you. Pick American translations.

when you know just a little about philosophy but not a lot but gotta write a tweet anyway

Socrates would have freebased Hemlock if he was around modern universities.

I rarely read anything written after the 19th Century.