People often never learn the skill of self reflection. I am not even sure where one might.
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Replying to @2centjubilee @vgr and
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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Replying to @danlistensto @2centjubilee and
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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Replying to @_molten_steel_ @2centjubilee and
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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Replying to @danlistensto @_molten_steel_ and
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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Replying to @danlistensto @_molten_steel_ and
I've never referenced that because I have no clue what it is though name rings a bell
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Replying to @vgr @_molten_steel_ and
you're writing about psycho-history so you will probably thoroughly enjoy that stuff, particularly if you enjoy contrarian, enlightened, elitist (the good kind!) intellectuals from the Second Spanish Republic.
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Replying to @vgr @_molten_steel_ and
he's the kind of guy that drew the intense ire of all of the following: commies, fascists, continental philosophers, analytic philosophers, historians, populists, and Freudians. in other words: A+++ recommend most highly
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Replying to @danlistensto @_molten_steel_ and
sounds like my kinda guy :D so you recommend history as a system as a starting point? this bit definitely describes my headspace well https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/gasset/#ExisPhenPhilLife …
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his most famous book is Revolt of the Masses, which could be about Brexit/Trump as much as it is about the rise of authoritarian populism in 1930s Europe. I think you will personally enjoy History as a System the most out of his writings. Meditations on Quixote is excellent too.
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Replying to @danlistensto @_molten_steel_ and
just ordered all 3 from library, thanks :)
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