I think my barbell is raw history plus present sensory data. So book about 14th century: yes Photo of a new kind of Starbucks coffee cup Hubble image of a new deep sky object: yes "Classics" or "must reads" from any era: probably not E-channel celeb gossip or sports: No.
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The sort of thing I have almost no patience for... concept-heavy philosophical or political writing, even if second-order evidence suggests I'd be simpatico.
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So I haven't read, and am unlikely to read, something like Deleuze and Guattari, though I enjoy stuff like Manaugh's application of it in Nakatomi spaces/burglar's guide to the city type writing. I might use a concept like rhizome or smooth/striated but not study it in context.
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I think the Talebian barbell is a Straussian barbell. One end is hanging with the Great Minds, the other end is slumming it with the low minds to "keep it real" or something. My barbell is raw information. Stuff you cannot know simply via inference by being smarter.
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I basically have no taste for, or interest in, esoteric concepts or their exoteric budget versions. I'll use them if they cross my path and they seem useful for a particular conversation with people who use them, OR if they genuinely capture something that has no everyday notion
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I periodically binge a novel like Dune or The Dispossessed (first two to come to mind recently), otherwise it's dunking my entire head into the Twitter well
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How is Dune? I've been meaning to read it for a while now
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I’ve often struggled with this as well, but I think you can replace the non-classic end with any “guilty pleasures”.
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the whole "worship the classics" stuff seems really dumb cuz of all the people who never got a chance to record their thoughts (or had their records destroyed) if you know where to look you can queerness, egalitarianism, etc in long lived ancient societies
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I love it. Why do you dislike it?
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