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@SWarraich01 C

One is Different Choose Wisely ...?

@WildPure_ Roar

No words start with R and end with R. 🤔 Prove me wrong

@ayraa70 Ere

No word starts with’E’ ends with E’

@Rizwanabbasi022 Root 2

Please do it!

@elizai69 Floor

Can you name just one more word with "OO"?

Dostoevsky understood the modern crisis before it became normal. A man can study truth, praise progress, and speak about humanity while still failing to help the child standing in front of him. This is the central wound inside Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. The man had spent years thinking about life, yet he had no strength left to live it. One winter night, after sitting with friends who spoke grandly about truth and progress, he walked home with a revolver waiting in his room. He had decided that this would be his last night. On the way, a little girl grabbed his coat. She was wet, frightened, and begging for help. Her mother was sick. The man understood enough to know she needed him, yet he pushed her away and told her to find the police. When she kept pleading, he shouted at her. She ran off into the cold. He reached his room, sat before the revolver, and prepared to die. Then the girl’s face returned to him. Her fear disturbed him. Her pain followed him into the silence. He wondered why guilt still hurt if life had no meaning. Then he fell asleep. In the dream, he saw himself dead. A bright being lifted him from his grave and carried him beyond the stars to another world. The people there looked human, yet they lived without greed, envy, lies, or cruelty. They loved naturally. They had no need to explain happiness because they lived inside it. Then he corrupted them. One lie led to another. Pride entered. Envy followed. Soon they competed, deceived, punished, and killed. When he begged them to remember who they had once been, they mocked him. They said they had science, knowledge, and the laws of happiness. They believed understanding happiness mattered more than happiness itself. He woke at six in the morning. The revolver still sat before him. He threw it away. The dream had given him a task. He would find the little girl. He would tell people the truth. They would call him ridiculous again, but this time he knew something they had forgotten. A life without love can know everything and still understand nothing. Dostoevsky’s lesson attacks one of the modern world’s favorite lies that knowledge alone can save us. The man in the story has thought about life so much that he has stopped living it. He can judge society, expose hypocrisy, and explain despair, yet one suffering child reveals the poverty of his soul. That is the force of the story. A little girl does what philosophy cannot do. She brings him back to responsibility. The dream shows the same truth on a larger scale. A perfect world falls when deceit enters it, then its people begin to defend corruption. They suffer, yet call their suffering wisdom. They lose happiness, then comfort themselves with theories about happiness. Dostoevsky noticed that a civilization can become brilliant and still become cruel. It can build systems, write laws, praise progress, and lose the simple moral instinct that tells a man to help a child in the rain. His final lesson is severe and necessary. Truth begins with love in action. Love begins with the person in front of you. That is why the ridiculous man becomes wise. He stops studying life from outside and accepts the burden of living it. For more content like this, subscribe to the Culture Explorer… newsletter.thecultureexplorer.com

@indiceconomics Deep Halder?

Tuesday, we'll have a podcast with a scholar whose many a paper we have discussed, regarding a historically infamous topic. It'll be his first appearance on a podcast, first appearance on YouTube (he's had to keep a low profile because of the nature of his research), because even right now, if you search by his name on Google or YouTube, you'll only find his papers and our live streams on them! HINT: In one of his papers, he's thanked @sanjeevsanyal and the late great @bibekdebroy for bringing up this topic in mainstream discourse. He thanked someone else as well, but I'm not giving away that name cuz that'd be a spoiler.

The Gracchi brothers destroyed Rome's property rights in 133 BC, then wondered why their republic collapsed within a century. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus seized private land through legislative force, redistributing it to landless citizens under the banner of "reform." They created the template for every socialist redistribution scheme that followed. Rome's wealthy families had legitimately acquired vast estates (latifundia) through conquest, purchase, and development. The land generated wealth, employed thousands, and fed the empire. The Gracchi saw inequality and decided government theft would solve it. Tiberius bypassed the Senate entirely, appealing directly to popular assemblies who voted themselves other people's property. When senators objected to this constitutional violation, Tiberius had his colleague Octavius deposed. Pure mob rule. The economic consequences arrived swiftly. Landowners stopped investing in improvements, knowing politicians could seize their property at will. Agricultural productivity declined as redistributed plots went to inexperienced farmers who lacked capital for proper cultivation. Food shortages followed. The Gracchi had broken the link between productive effort and reward, destroying incentives across the entire system. Worse than the economic damage was the political precedent. Future demagogues learned they could buy votes by promising to redistribute wealth from productive citizens to political supporters. Marius, Sulla, Pompey, and Caesar all followed the Gracchi playbook, using land redistribution to build personal armies of grateful beneficiaries. Property rights form the foundation of civilization itself. When politicians can seize private property through majority vote, you get warlords fighting over the spoils while your economy burns.

10 underrated classic books: 1) Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

@Mahesh_Babbar @Abhijit_Basak83 Gau Seva Sangh has a lot of potential. We must use this line of logic to ban cow slaughter nationally. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cali…

@unknowncorner @Abhijit_Basak83 Yes .

মোট ১৭৯ টা শাখা সংগঠন আছে তার কয়েকটি মাত্র এখানে আছে। জেনে নিন....

@tathagata2 Sir, use this precedent. California banned horse meat as horses have a connection with the culture of the wilderness in the state. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cali…

গরু জবাই (কুরবানী) কোন ধর্মীয় অনুষ্ঠান নয় । যেহেতু এটি সংখ্যাগুরু হিন্দুদের ঘৃণা উদ্রেক করে, তাই এটি অবিলম্বে বন্ধ করতে হবে। facebook.com/share/v/1A9nTz…

@_its_ishani_ It HAS to remain West Bengal till we annex East Bengal. At that point we can rename the combined entity as Bengal.

• West Bengal should be renamed to "Banga" (বঙ্গ ) . • "West Bengal" emerged after the 1947 Partition while "Banga/Vanga" is the region’s ancient historical identity, mentioned in texts like the Mahabharata and Puranas. 1/2

@DanielSmidstrup Mistral, Alphafold, Leworld, JEPA.

USA has ChatGPT USA has Grok USA has Claude USA has Gemini China has DeepSeek China has Qwen China has Kimi China has MiniMax Europe has?

India shortlisted 3 ageing thermal power plant sites for new nuclear projects. Two sites can host 700 MWe reactors, while one site is being evaluated for 220 MWe units. indianexpress.com/article/busine…

@FreyaQueeni 6

Only for the sharpest minds. What's 'a'?

@aarohiyadav100 India

Name a country without letter "E"

@connorkapoor This and @OSHCutInc and @sendcutsend make me so optimistic.

@connorkapoor In Dallas there was a grocery store opposite where I lived. I used to buy Popular Mechanics and Popular Science there.

I really miss popular mechanics Now would be the perfect time for a revival, coinciding with reindustrialization and the renaissance of hardware companies Imagine the Anduril Fury in beautiful artistic rendering , or starship, or a next gen turbine

@connorkapoor Stunned to hear this is defunct. Is Popular Science still there?