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              Exploring the fringes of culture, online & IRL ┃ ⚔️ × 🎨 × 🐸 × 🌐 × 🌎 × 🔥
              
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           People say there's nothing left to explore, no new places to go. That's wrong. If you go looking for the truth, you will go far, to places where few or no people have gone. And you don't have to go anywhere. You can do it with just your mind and books. 
          
                
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             ON THE ORIGIN OF MARTIAL ARTS How people “learned” to fight is a contentious question. In many cases, it’s very tied into ethnic pride. Here’s a rough sketch of my hypothesis. In short, I think the better question is when people *forgot* how to fight. 1/ 
          
                
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             "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as comedy, the second time as farce." 
          
                
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             The Venice Orient Express is Europe’s most legendary train. The train, which stop in London, Paris, and Venice, isn’t meant for the ordinary tourist—it’s a world-class leisure event with five-star dining included. Travelers stay in authentic, restored Art Deco-era railcars from 
          
                
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             I’m always surprised that this Jimmy Carter anecdote gets overlooked. 
          
                
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             The girl who had sex with 100 guys in 24hr is the logical conclusion of our age's shift toward algorithmic, numbers-based value—what Kierkegaard called "levelling": A "silent and mathematical" process that destroys the embodied and specific individual, and replaces it with 
          
          
                
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