Athenian Stranger

You’re going to really enjoy this one — link in comment

“To know the Greeks of antiquity means to know the development of our entire culture — it’s a way of *understanding ourselves* Our historians and classicists do it exactly backwards: They look to Greek antiquity as a mirror, seeking only their own bourgeois values” ~ Nietzsche

Homer’s heroes: — Achilles is the hero of daylight, in open battle for all to see how spectacularly glorious in combat he is — Odysseus is the hero of the night, amid darkness and the unknown he learns and prevails The teaching is how —or the limitations if— a man can be both

Finished @Athens_Stranger episode Nietzsche which was a revelation. Listened to it during my fasted cardio session. Also finished The Dawn, after grinding it out in the morning. Starting The Joyous Science now. Athenian's episode is an invaluable companion to the material. I'm quite content that I managed the other material as I make my way through the corpus since it really all starts coming together. That'll give Thus Speak Zarathustra a lot more context, and the rest of the material. My resolve hasn't wavered, but I'll admit I underestimated the bandwidth it takes to tackle Nietzsche's entire corpus. Regardless, I'm progressing, and getting a lot more insights based on Athenian's work.

Top 15 Lit of All Time based upon the two best metrics available: symbolic bandwidth and interconnectedness to the canon itself. Most entries on this list are harder than Joyce's Ulysses: 1. Tennyson's Idylls of the King 2. Ovid's Metamorphoses 3. Milton's Paradise Lost 4. Apollodorus' Library of Greek Mythology 5. Shakespeare's Winter's Tale (Pound4P # 1) 6. Shakespeare's The Tempest 7. Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea (did I stutter?) 8/9. Shakespeare and Euripides' Hamlet & Heracleidae (paired) 10. Virgil's Aeneid 11. (Anonymous) The Death of King Arthur 12. Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde 13. Euripides' Alcestis 14. Sophocles' Trachiniae 15. Joyce's Ulysses Runner's up: Dante's Inferno. LEJ Brouwer's Life, Art, and Mysticism Three huge problems: Canonical interconnectedness paradoxically destroys the three ur-texts that started the conversation to begin with. The Bible and Homer.

@mrjohn496 I’ve done two so far — the first being my pinned tweet and this being its sequel:

The alleged separation of “the sciences” and “the humanities” is fictional and in most respects quite arbitrary. You see that in the lives of men like Euler, Poincaré, and really all the founders of Modern physics These two books in particular are well worth your time reading:

Here’s the sequel I also discuss the passages in the Phaedrus concerning the art of writing such that a text becomes alive in the mind of the reader. In other words, how Plato seems to suggest his dialogues are to be read (link in comment)

@javier_mar12137 @signersf Yes, Snow’s book gets it exactly wrong

@signersf @Athens_Stranger Exacto!

@husafell_stone 🎯

I have an iron will. I cannot be broken. That’s how I’ve survived on X this long. And my loyalty is as strong as my will. I would be nothing without my loyalty.

@PopBase I’ve always loved this one:

Twitter turns 20. What is your favorite tweet of all time?

@Babygravy9 Definitely This one always cracks me up as well

No beating this.

@IberianMantis The cosmos is among Nietzsche’s favorite metaphors for human psychology regarding morality (eg Truth & Lying in a Non-Moral Sense) Emphasis is upon the inferences we make or, more specifically, the way we infer the existence of things for which we don’t have genuine knowledge

What did Nietzsche mean by this

@Zagonel85 ☠️☠️☠️☠️

Virginia is finished

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by AI, trading the birthright of their mind for porridge, breathing in the uninspired sparks of midwit LLMs and substitute thoughts. Men who would otherwise avoid servanthood to their inferiors became simps to a soulless and sexless voice. A bargain for time and effort, a bargain for time and effort, only the effectual atrophy of the intellect.

Mike O’Hearn in an interview: Interviewer: “Mike you weigh 260lbs at almost 60 years old. Do you struggle carrying that weight?” O’Hearn: “Yea it’s hard to stay that lite. I’ve got to be lifting and doing cardio twice a day to be that small!” Love that guy 😂

Really enjoying this book so far. Great introduction to Manifolds for people unfamiliar with topology, also includes many helpful illustrations.

I received such good feedback on this that I combined both recorded spaces (since the first one crashed) and uploaded it here for more convenient listening — direct link in comment below

@alexpriou Once the world went down the route of “effectual truth” there was no going back. We can say that “effectual truth” is the true Pandora

There’s more going on here, re: the limits theoretical physics is running up against. The practical side of the hard sciences has gained in momentum, while the theoretical side has gone speculative or silent. This explains the increased interest in religion, philosophy, etc.

My comprehensive intro to Nietzsche In meticulous detail, I canvass the entirety of his thought: — Homer — The Dionysian — History & Modern Science — The origin and meaning of Nihilism: “worldview” and its inherent counterpart of “world-creating” — His critique of Christianity

@visitor_xyz Most Platonic in the sense of containing what Plato himself believes he learned from Socrates

@Athens_Stranger What do you mean by that can you develop.

In being the *least* Socratic dialogue, Plato’s Laws is the *most* Platonic dialogue That —and exactly that— is what has been wasted on the tradition of Philosophy in the West