The author is clearly smart enough to comment on sjw culture, but chose not to, so it made me suspect he was playing up the naive-foreigner act a little too much for effect, like Poirot does in his mysteries. Still, it was funny :)
reading some of David's and Venkat's work is a good start, but you have to be a smarty pants nerd to click with that. I dunno. The right kind of drugs? Mindfulness meditation is really hard to do right but in principle it works too.
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I had read their stuff and partially understood it. Then went back and learned other stuff + some lived experience. After rereading some of their stuff, a lot of it clicked.
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David says that he is very influenced by Heidegger and Dreyfus but I think he's much more influenced Alan Ginsberg and Bob Dylan, and probably Marilyn Manson for that matter.
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Venkat is more in touch with his pop culture influences and the Asimov/Harry Seldon angle is very fascinating. I think it's probably basically Ortega y Gasset (History as a System and Revolt of the Masses in particular) but I've never see him actually reference that.
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but ultimately I never understand their stuff in pure intellect mode either and have to step back, twist my head around, and re-read all the time too.
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I can see the Venkat influences, but how was David influenced by Bob Dylan?
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he would probably say that he isn't. I'll leave it as a riddle.
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Influences aside, you may find Sartre's nausea a useful bridge between Dylanesque and Buddhist phenomenology. It's the low road between east and west where Emerson/Whitman are the high road. This old guest post on Ribbonfarm gets at bothhttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/05/17/discussion-note-sartres-nausea-vs-future-nausea/ …
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a truly Buddhist approach would be walking the middle path... (I'll see myself out)
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Yeah I was thinking of sources that work if you are IQ 100 not 130.
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