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Forming Minds. Rebuilding the West.

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3 Reasons to stop reading new books and choose old ones instead: 1). Survivorship bias - Bad books don't stay in circulation long, but good books are remembered. We're left with mostly the best books after a few centuries. 2). Ancient authors probably lived vastly more interesting lives than your average modern writer who gets their takes from the internet (see article below). 3). By reading books from many different time periods, you'll identify the commonalities between them. Thus you'll get a good understanding of patterns across history and human nature.
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THE ALCHEMIST
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"Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage." C.S. Lewis
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Show me a more beautiful map than this
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@thinkingwest “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.” — T. S. Eliot
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Human passion and effort will never be truly replicated. We might come alarmingly close with AI and other tools, but it’s clear that even as tech has increased in 50 years, we still can’t do better than these beautiful animations made with the human hand.
Movie Moments Analyst@Movies_analyst

Sleeping Beauty cost $6 million, making it the most expensive Walt Disney Productions film at the time — more than Cinderella and Snow White. Inspired by medieval art, it took nearly a decade to make and became Disney’s last feature hand inked before switching to xerography.

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There’s probably no cooler street view than this
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wood paneling > drywall
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“A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean. At its cradle religion stands, and philosophy accompanies it to the grave." ― Will Durant
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This is the calcification that sets in during a civilization’s late phase. Everything begins to feel stuck, frozen. No innovation, just replication. It’s why there are dozens of Marvel movies and countless remakes yet there hasn’t been a truly iconic film made in a decade. AI will exacerbate this trend 100X
Soda@fredsoda

america feels exhausted to me doesn’t really feel like there’s anything going on not even from a novelty perspective but everything just feels stale and uninspired lethargic, spiritually lethargic

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@GodPlaysCards Well said. You need a framework before you can innovate in a manner that actually produces something beautiful. Too bad we’ve tossed out the framework.
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@thinkingwest The beautiful thing about the renaissance was that it found beauty in proven ideals. The whole notion of "originality" came later, and we are still suffering from it today. Don't get me wrong, Renaissance artists were obsessed with innovation, just within classical frameworks.
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It's like watching people from the Capitol in the Hunger Games novels. No connection to or understanding of the average person, therefore the average person couldn't care less. Once an institution becomes detached from the people it serves, it loses its legitimacy.
The War on Beauty@thewaronbeauty

It’s crazy how growing up the Oscars were such a big deal (kids staying up on a school night to watch, people throwing watch parties etc) and in such a short time no one seems to care about them anymore

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