[jdrc]

"Do not sympathize too much with jesus because you may turn to one of his followers"

I really hate this era of discourse. It's mostly dominated by emotionally-driven americans with juvenile opinions who take twitter and facebook too seriously. A dumbed down elite making dumb meta-arguments using the emotional drivels of the most vocal but equally dumb sample of humans as input data. Meanwhile, european intellectual social commentary has either completely stopped or is hidden deep inside academic meetings and is afraid to meet the public. The UK doesnt seem to have much to offer also, and the bleak russians seem to have decided on collective suicide.

What's left? I guess i will wait for GPT-41 to write an actual intellectully challenging novel

[rich_sasha]

It all goes in waves.

Renaissance, Enlightenment and Modernism were famous for bringing science and reason mainstream, but they were surrounded by the Middle Ages, Counter-Reformation and Romanticism etc. These periods were surely not devoid of intellectuals making great strides, just, as you say, hidden deep inside academic meetings.

I think the stochastic pendulum is clearly thinking about slowly turning around; if it is though, it also means it is currently at an extreme.

[mechanical_bear]

Can it really be considered a pendulum if it’s stochastic?

[ndr]

I hate it too, but in a way it's true.

"Thought contagion" is exactly how memes replicate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme#Memetic_lifecycle:_transm...

In that way it's dangerous to let some people (or ideas/memes) have write-access to your brain.

[leobg]

Tend to agree with your sentiment. What are, in your opinion, three undervalued novels from the last 100 years that you would consider to be among the highest human achievements in fiction?

[ryanobjc]

Dude Finnegans Wake is waiting for you. It’s right there.

No need to pray to god (GPT-41) for enlightenment. It’s already all around you.

[emsy]

I didn’t know this was true for the rest of Europe but it’s certainly true for Germany. At least in the US you have interesting personalities the likes you’ll find on podcasts. On the other hand the discourse in Germany isn’t nearly as extreme. I suspect those things correlate.

[blueflow]

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