the creation of an intellectual eLiTe that gets negligible exposure to the history of western civilization and intellectual history in particular is probably the greatest curse of our time I am so mad about this instead we have distribution requirements in psychology good god
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the concentration of history into subdisciplines is separately but further deeply cursed
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especially mad that I more or less had to seek out such knowledge of my own volition rather than having it suggested as a course of action to me my high school AP european history course was a better introduction to the world than anything I took at University maaaaaaad mad mad
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most intellectually-fruitful use of my free time i have ever madehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1259372865742200833?s=19 …
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Will (and later + ariel) Durant's story of civilization is very good. eleven volumes hardcore history is interesting if kind of heavy on military mike duncan's history of rome, and later revolutions
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