The Genealogy of Morals (8/10)
Friedrich Nietzsche’s “On the Genealogy of Morals” is, at its core, a genealogical study o
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The Sale of the Brooklyn Bridge
In the bustling heart of early 20th century New York City, amid a frenzy of rapid progress and unending ambition, existed opportunities not only for honest prosperity but also for remarkable deception.
Chapter 15: The Marriage of Science and Empire (Sapiens)
In the period between 1500 and 1850, the military-industrial-scientific complex blossomed in Europe, but why not in India? Why did countries like Britain, France, Germany, and the US leap forward, while China did…
Week 4: The Persian Mirror
Imagine creating the perfect media channel—unbiased, scientific, truthful, fact-based, insightful. How would it differ from what exists today? Perhaps it would function as an independent body systematically…
Chapter 6: Civilization (21 Lessons for the 21st Century)
Chapter 6: Civilization The ‘Clash of Civilizations’ thesis has been revived by recent events in the world.
Thoughts With Thinkers
Psychology Sigmund Freud The Ideas of Sigmund Freud: Freud is the author of several influential books including [Civilization and its Discontents](https://unearnedwisdom.
Mimetic Desire (Week 30 of Wisdom)
What is behind human motivation? Freud would tell you that all human goals are manifestations of the biological need to reproduce. All our desires, including intellectuality and aesthetic taste, are merely…
Dynamics Chaos and Prediction
Complex systems are made up of many simple components interacting with one another without a central controller, yet they exhibit complex, organized behaviors. These systems are found in nature and society, including…
Law 35: Master the Art of Timing (The 48 Laws of Power)
Law 35: Master the Art of Timing The Patient Hawk* Space we can recover, time never. Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821 Being in a hurry will make it seem that you lack self-control. Don’t rush.
Ch 2: The Pacification Process (The Better Angels of Our Nature)
In the Leviathan, Hobbes explains the logic of violence in a fewer than a hundred words (as good as any explanation you can find today). So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First,…
Law 9: Confront Your Dark Side (The Laws of Human Nature)
The Law of Repression People are not what they seem. Beneath their polite exterior is a dark side filled with insecurities and aggressive, selfish impulses that are repressed and carefully concealed.
Probiotics
Bacteria can also perform this service outside the gut. Yogurt is nothing other than milk that has been predigested by bacteria. Much of the sugar in the milk (lactose) has already been broken down and transformed…