Jash Dholani
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This FORGOTTEN 2500 year old story can teach you: • Why cheap dopamine is the enemy of greatness • How the cost of glory is pain • How many modern problems have ancient solutions...
Discover an old but brilliant book today: Beyond Good And Evil (1886) Learn 11 life-enhancing ideas from Nietzsche 1/ "Under conditions of peace, the warlike man attacks himself....
The Nerd-Jock Dichotomy Is False Let me show you 10 writers who lived like action heroes 1/ Ernst JĂĽnger https://t.co/o88cOBmQtS
James Burnham Thread🧵 The Managerial Revolution (1941) by Burnham nails the world we live in 70+ years ago, Burnham saw that capitalism would die And socialism WON'T replace it...
Oswald Spengler Thread🧵 In 1931, Spengler published one of the most idea-dense books of all time: Man and Technics It packs hundreds of interesting ideas in 52 pages Top 13 ins...
The greatest Sci-Fi writer you've never heard of turns 88 today: Robert Silverberg He: • Wrote 10k+ words a day • Published his first novel at 21 • Swept all Sci-Fi awards there...
Take a Dostoevskian antihero with a God Complex, load him up with Freudian sexual jealousy, and drop him inside a Girardian memetic trap - and you get Noboru, the 14 year old prota...
The Dark Side of Psychology🧵 In 1928, a professor wrote a parenting guide It became a best-seller Then 3 of his 4 kids committed suicide Meet John Watson: the father of Behavio...
Nietzsche: writer of timeless books, philosopher without equal, life coach to many even today In January 1889, he ran across a road, hugged a horse, and went insane What happened...
On the left: Venus of Willendorf (25k years old) On the right: Nefertiti (4k years old) In the CONTRAST of these two images you can see the story of human civilization What does...
Selections from a great book I'm reading: "This book is about trickster figures—Coyote, Hermes, Mercury, and more—and all tricksters are 'on the road.' They are the lords of in-be...
A Girardian take on the internet is that it has sparked off toxic mimetic contests like nothing before in human history, but the democratization of the tools of creation has also g...