mmodern life is madness think about this a lot when high or rather its only manifest then, sober things blur and cant be perceived with ground-level clarity but seriously bananas thinking about forest primeval right now an ancient temperate hardwood Wald
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and the bundle is path dependent but in great flux and components can be lost easily by saeculum if a thing is not passed down over two generations it might just be lost languages say but subtle things too God or courage or bigotry or identity or endurance
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the british forgot how to cure scurvy this case is instructive
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I don't think Gibbon was silly to place blame for the second greatest Fall on Rome's loss of virtue the Romans of the Empire were very clearly not the Romans of the high Republic there had been too many fat saecula, maybe Old things forgotten and then their memory forgotten
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Here you see a good point! But doubly so or more when you consider that the most important things--experiences, moods, heart-felt zeitgeists, trials, morals--are not (well) transmitted by writing https://twitter.com/josephtoretti/status/1054283331985010689?s=19 …
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Weirdly enough, I think part of my sanity comes from the fact that modern life doesn't cause any discomfort in me.
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Not us though. Ah, we say, ah, all the sense things make!
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And you may ask yourself, well How did I get here?
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