Jash Dholani
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In the 1950s, people believed that comic books were corrupting the youth. In the 1990s, moral panic shifted to video games. In the 2010s, the culprit is porn. All three are correct...
Whatever belief you WANT to hold, you will find proof of. You will find friends who reinforce it. You will find an environment that confirms it. The world really is big enough to v...
Byronic Hero🧵 James Bond, Batman, and Nietzsche’s Übermensch can all be traced back to The Corsair (1814) A poem published by Lord Byron on this day, 208 years ago A poem that s...
Catcher In The Rye 🧵 One of the best-selling books of all time (65 million+ lifetime sales) The most banned *and* the most loved book on school campuses On J.D. Salinger’s 103rd...
The French Revolutionaries invented a new Calendar Minutes: 44% longer Days: from 24 to 10 hours The goal? Make time-keeping more “scientific” The result? Total disaster T...
What in the world explains the typewriter's better aesthetics compared to the laptop? https://t.co/GRSqnWKkTE
What are the greatest books of all time? In 1952, Encyclopædia Britannica set out to answer this question With two maverick Professors, Adler and Hutchins, they published 54 Volu...
Julius Evola On Symbolism🧵 In his essay "The Inversion Of Symbols" Evola writes that when a new ideology wins - - It remakes not just politics but also the SYMBOLS of the old o...
The paranoid schizophrenic is more correct than the normie - everything *is* connected
Today I discovered a 135 year old lecture Delivered by a man who advised Kings & Prime Ministers And was nominated 11 times for the Nobel in Literature John Morley has great ins...
First Patrick O'Brian couldn't crack the Royal Naval College entrance Then he was permanently rejected from the Navy due to bad health Using his obsession with the sea He wrote...
George MacDonald is the father of modern fantasy His support made Lewis Carroll publish Alice In Wonderland A “master” to CS Lewis, other fans include J.R.R Tolkien, Orwell, and...