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there is a very meaningful sense in which we can describe history as speeding up and slowing down, based on the conceptual distances covered in these century-long spans, and through that lens this is undoubtedly a slow period

we imagine ourselves in an era transcendent, but we overemphasize material technology and an abstracted idea of the speed of history. if i was an author in 1650, commenting on a work from 1550, i would feel so much further apart in history than i currently feel with the 1920s

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it's crazy how little has changed since 1925

how many times do you really need to say "epidermis" when describing brickwork

i guess it makes sense that the framework of european architectural preservation comes from the borderline sexual desires of a 19th century autist but i dunno if i really needed to read that

i was recently thrilled to learn that the first (modern) work to explicitly discuss the psychological impact of classical architecture is an interlude in victor hugo's the hunchback of notre dame. i was less thrilled to learn that victor hugo was extremely horny for the building

i saw someone call this the syphilitic technocracy recently and i think that's apt. it seems like they all get meningitis on the way in and paranoia on the way out

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it used to be easy to blame this on the medium or on habits but now it is obviously the case that most people in positions of leadership are legitimately incapable of even short term planning

i got really mad at the internet yesterday so today i read a book with my wifi off. then i turned it on after and immediately got mad again. everything about the world is so stupid right now even the slightest exposure is toxic

getting the sense that karl mannheim did not like fascists

there are easy superficial explanations, you could blame it on technology or generational changes, but these don't hold up to any level of scrutiny. it's not even the shortness of the interval that's strange here, it's the consistency

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something that eludes me is a good narrative for why liberal societies always need to reinvent themselves every 50 years. why 50? other periods of history show much longer cycles

the oldest work even has just as much abuse of mathematical notation as current work

i've been digging up the origins of technomillenarian belief lately and it's remarkably to me how much of this was laid out in the 1960s. it's only evolved a little bit since then

in previous periods of economic transformation it was fairly common for people whose roles were erased to distance themselves from market economies. but it isn't clear that people even can make that sort of soft exit from markets now

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even if you think they have some chance to come up with a more sensible concept in the future, they haven't done that yet, and the appropriate response to that is to mock them

more people need to embrace the principle of "it looks stupid because it is". not all projects meet the standard for charitable interpretation and engagement! a team that still advertises themselves as building a 4x4km square solar array for leo is well below that standard