Nico Christo
@FooledByHistory
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Attempting to peer underneath the veil obscuring reality.
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined July 2025
To paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald: a sign of intelligence is the ability to hold opposite opinions simultaneously, and still be able to function. Rather there be an amalgamation of the extremes, than the osmosis of them. Truth is never found in the lukewarm.
Don’t be alarmed. You’re on the right path. Centrism actually is correct—just not the normie kind.
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I’d say the typical person lies more so to themselves than to others. We also have more internal thoughts than we do conversations. But if we take it on a percentage basis I think it probably still holds.
Do humans lie more to themselves, or each other?
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A very interesting difference between conversations and text/emails.
What kids don't realize is conversations with text & emails are bounded closed linear extrapolation. You get more information from conversations because they're not linear. Can go in any direction. You'll always get multi-dimensional information from conversations not linear.
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Thought-provoking tidbit.
Remember it's never what they say; it's what they knowingly withhold. That says everything
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Nassim Taleb: “Talk to no ordinary man over forty. A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.”
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People need a heroic bent. Their soul will begin to degrade otherwise. And given enough time, they will become a husk of their former self.
“A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.” - Carl Jung
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I find this more appealing and more appealing compared to a ‘man cave’ And I grew up with a ‘man cave’
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Even more so with the worsening of the signal to noise ratio. Extra information often confuses rather than adds precision.
They try to convince you that smart is about knowledge accumulation. When in reality, modern smart is about information reduction. The addition is in the subtraction seldom in the addition.
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Not sure why I found this so funny😂
iPad babies can kill without feeling or remorse. They are the NATO super soldiers of tomorrow.
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In general, I do think more grace should be given to Parents to young children than they often get. Especially an outside observer. Particularly from those who don’t have kids themselves
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Maybe an interactive game is the solution. Like a connect 4 with the siblings. Something semi-social. Because I wouldn’t want my kids to implicitly think it’s okay to ignore everybody and be rooted staring at their screen in a social environment. No kids currently but one day
@FooledByHistory I think when you're able to be entertained with something like that, you're old enough to enjoy the situation. But very young kids usually find it very difficult to be entrained for 60-90 minutes at a table in restaurant.
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It was a post of this guy, Zoomer 🧢, complaining that he had been robbed by Nikita Bier😂 @nikitabier Before he deleted it that is. I’d tag him but he blocked me😂
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Just enough of a taste to make the person insatiable. "Fortune punishes the greedy by making him poor and the very greedy by making him rich." - Nassim Taleb.
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A specific example that Rory mentions is the payment of parking tickets. In some places, there’s not even a pay station nowadays…it’s all on your phone. A rather tough situation for Pensioners.
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Nice list and thought process. Scipio has to be there for him being the ‘man of the moment’ The only man to give defeat to the Great Hannibal Barca. A seemingly invincible man. A man who forced the proud Romans to resort to Guerrilla Tactics…
Augustus, then Julius Caesar, Constantine, Hadrian, Justinian. While Roman historians & philosophers were great, like Cicero, I do not think any of them match up to their Greek predecessors. Rome was great because it used power to establish law & order, thus establishing a
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Rory Sutherland talks about the scenario when an option morphs into an obligation. Where originally there’s only upside…it has the potential to morph organically thereafter… For example, cashless payments… @rorysutherland
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He had more than a reasonable distaste of Caesar. Participating in creating the ‘tyrant’ in Caesar he so often cautioned. A tragic self-fulfilling prophecy or vindication?
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If the rule of Augustus wasn’t a success story, would we treat him more harshly for his inability to compromise?
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What’s overlooked about Cato the Younger is his contribution to the Fall of the Late Republic. It was Cato, after all, who pushed the Senate to take the steps they did, pushing Caesar into crossing the Rubicon. An upright and moral man but to a fault…
@RomeInTheEast None of those in your image. The greatest Roman to ever walk on earth was Cato the Younger. Not only he sowed the seed during the republic that later gave the fruits of the Pax Romana during the Empire, but he also solidified the Roman Institutions that carried the glory of
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