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@vintagemapstore Legit crazy that they never ruled Japan, just off this map

All the territories ever ruled by China

Om du sitter på handen tills den somnar känns det som att någon annan gör olagliga avdrag på skatten

@Paul_Heron_ Kolakowski is one of my favorites - one of the few funny philosophers. Any of his collections of essays are good starting points.

This is excellent. I’ve read but a little of Kołakowski; I should return to him.

@Paul_Heron_ This was Kolakowski's conclusion as well, in the aftwerword of his Main currents of marxism:

In comparison to, say, medieval England, 19th-century Britain was far from religiously homogeneous, but the later Marx tended to dismiss religion as false consciousness. I think Marx did understand, though, that to become a political force in the world, philosophy has to become a meme.

@perpetua @lfitzmaurice Alert us when completed!

@lfitzmaurice this is one of my abandoned playlist ideas I really should circle back to

One underdiscussed aspect of 2000s indie is that there was a three-year period in which everyone was trying to make their own Beach Boys album

Gud talar till mig genom olika vilda djur jag möter

@royalmidwit @heywildrich Tell us more?

@heywildrich Wrong. The best rap music is not Nietzschean at all. Kanye’s entire project is Kierkegaardian.

my most guilty pleasure of modernity is that i like rap music. everybody has something. mine is rap music. it's unironically Nietzschean, pure will-to-power. getting money, staying hungry, flexing on your opps, focusing on your goals + women and cars. i love rap music.

@RyanShuck5 It takes like nine levels of faith-based mind constructs to even get to the concept of >human rights< , the thing you devote your life to.

Faith doesn't work. It is a flight of fancy, an arbitrary construct of the mind with no practical application in reality.

@shomo172 @FreeBearly @L0m3z Labor theory of value was superseded by the marginal revolution.

"They want to transfer wealth from the poor to the rich..." The poor don't have any wealth! That's what it means to be poor. Stoner tier marxoid resentment is spiritually ugly and lame, but also remarkably dumb.

Don Delillo Nobel incoming

@Patrick66536255 @Steve_Sailer @ageofinfovores @tylercowen The fact that Oswald was killed by a mobster who was then declared insane by a CIA mind-control psychiatrist could make a conspiracy nut out of anyone.

Conspiracy theories @tylercowen believes in:

@walterp_tv @paganpoaetry Stänger aldrig en dörr utan att öppna ett fönster

@j_brostrom @paganpoaetry the lord giveth and the lord taketh away

@darin4really @BoilingPb @RichardHanania Maybe but why would PhDs be so alluring to the neurotics?

@BoilingPb @RichardHanania I guess my competing hypothesis would be something like this. Highly neurotic people are more likely than average to pursue a PhD, and this environment triggers illness, which would have manifest itself eventually. Maybe "just" selection was a poor choice of words.

Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health. A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion criteria, they end up with a sample size of 20,085 individuals. The paper compares PhD students to those who have masters degrees and don't start a PhD program. Before starting a PhD program, people who stop at a masters and those who go on to seek a PhD have similar rates of psychiatric medication use and hospitalization. A few years into a PhD program, however, 40% more individuals are on psychiatric medications, before the number falls off as people leave or finish their studies. You see the same pattern with psychiatric hospitalizations. PhD students are up to 150-175% more likely to be hospitalized after starting a program! These are incredible numbers, too massive to be the result of chance or a flaw in the methodology. This is comparing the same people over time. If you're considering a PhD program, and the terrible job prospects and waste of time aren't enough, here's yet another reason to stay away.

@astralflite @martyrmade Seems like it from reading Human Smoke. There’s a US diplomat talking about it like a month before it happens.

5 books about understand World War 2 This list assumes you know the History Channel version of the war, and are looking to understand it from different angles. None of these authors are dreaded revisionists, and buying these will not land you on whatever lists I'm now on. /1

@Heghoulian Three Days of the Condor as well.

Strongly represented in 70s cinema, most obviously by Pakula’s The Parallax View and All The President’s Men. Also Peter Hyams’ Capricorn One, about a fake Mars landing. Even Scott’s Alien can arguably be considered an example of left-wing conspiratorialism.

@FrogHarmless @ElonBachman Will, yes. From Mansions of philosophy.

@ElonBachman Which Durant is this? The historian?

Monogamy, per Durant: "laying siege to a surrendered citadel"

@vividvoid Keith Jarrett, Terrence Malick, Toshio Tabuchi

Who are the artists doing the highest quality spiritual and religious art today? Let's say last two decades, anything from psychedelia to high Catholic pomp.

@lavitalenta @excesstential This essay dissuaded me from reading it. Would be interesting to see what you think: persuasion.community/p/a-flawed-his…

@excesstential Paradigm shift

My “everything I thought was lindy was wrong” starter pack

@DillGatz @Martposting Seconded and highly recommend

@Martposting Will Durant’s “Age of Faith,” which is volume 4 in his Story of Civilization series. There’s some very good chapters on the birth and ascendancy of Islamic civilization.

What's the best literature for Islamic history? Preferably including philosophy, arts, etc