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  1. you would be making revisions you would have considered ridiculous in abstracto.

  2. If you were honourable enough to have been forced to figure out how things went wrong,

  3. Both reaction and progressivism are symptoms of rationalism. We must come to terms with what we have lost, and what we wish the world to be.

  4. Ever more correct. Ever more irrelevant.

  5. Method degenerates into technocracy. Content degenerates into sentiment.

  6. Evil isn’t banal. Rationalism is amoral.

  7. Common sense is in rationalism distilled into technocracy and sentiment.

  8. Conservatism is simply the observation that there is no deus ex machina in reform or refactoring; that incrementalism is our only option.

  9. The map is not the territory. Welcome to the desert of the real.

  10. Ugliness is invented. Beauty is discovered.

  11. History ultimately will complete your work at self-censorship.

  12. How is the rationalism of today different from the scholasticism of the past? As psychology exemplifies, statistics is but token empirics.

  13. sark followed and
    • @ThePatanoiac

      Author of North of Reality. Email: uel@northofreality.com

    • @peterfrankopan

      Oxford Univ academic. Historian. Author of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World; First Crusade: Call from the East. Does hotels too. Loves/needs coffee

  14. Whence with precocity comes also bigotry.

  15. Refactoring slows things down, but makes for the possibility of unlearning.

  16. One can learn things at a rapid rate, essentially by conceptual duplication.

  17. How should one think of ideas and opinions? Perhaps as venereal diseases mind-controlling us to be more promiscuous?

  18. Usury wrought economics. Sophistry, rationalism and technocracy.

  19. Reason being something amoral, whence the moral force in rationalism? Precisely in the insistence that exposure depend linearly on beliefs.

  20. We live in a rationalist utopia.

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