Me: “So I’m going to wind down today with a hot mug of ginger tea and make some progress on that book on the history of pragmatic thought …”
Also me, two hours later (after the entire civil war section of the book): “what the actual fuck.”
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I think a general rule of thumb I’m beginning to see is that the history of ideas (as opposed to the history of businesses, or wars) are always far weirder than I can imagine them to be.
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It's been great so far, but it's certainly the wrong book to wind down with!
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Seems remain to a book that I'm spending a few hours with today, coffee and hand.
Holmes sounds like he'd view propaganda as an indespensible tool for governance.
He and Ellul might not get along very well.
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