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Envy is deadly
Envy is deadly, and as social mobility increases, and the entire world becomes more interconnected via the internet and accessibility to travel, the deadly force ever escalates. Girard took this thesis to its conclusion – his faith in an inevitable third world war. #love #art #beautiful #photography #picoftheday #philosophy #philosopher #read #books #beauty #reading #instagram #read #books #history #reading #love #life #ancient
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What if you really don’t want what you thought you wanted?
What if you really don’t want what you thought you wanted? What if the entire desire to ‘be’ something was something that was instilled in you without your knowledge and uses you towards its own ends? #love #art #beautiful #photography #picoftheday #philosophy #philosopher #read #books #beauty #reading #instagram #read #books #history #reading #love #life #ancient
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Mimetic desire led my attention to Girard
Mimetic desire led my attention to Girard who explained his crucial insights into the nature of mimetic desire itself. #love #art #beautiful #photography #picoftheday #philosophy #philosopher #read #books #beauty #reading #instagram #read #books #history #reading #love #life #ancient
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Getting to the core of an idea is usually deceptively difficult
Getting to the core of an idea is usually deceptively difficult, the illusion of understanding prevents a deep and more comprehensive understanding. This is why it is said that teaching something is a way to truly understand it, since the bandages of illusion fall away when having to describe to novices. #love #art #beautiful #photography #picoftheday #philosophy #philosopher #read #books #beauty #reading #instagram #read #books #history #reading #love #life #ancient
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We use simplifications and axioms to generate ideologies and models that then wind up blinding us
We use simplifications and axioms to generate ideologies and models that then wind up blinding us to the axioms, assumptions and simplifications we used to get there. The road there needs to be traveled all the way back to the origin in order for the vision to be unobstructed. #love #art #beautiful #photography #picoftheday #philosophy #philosopher #read #books #beauty #reading #instagram #read #books #history #reading #love #life #ancient
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Circularity is a common feature of jargon
Circularity is a common feature of jargon, the closer one gets to base truth the more fundamental the questions become, and therefore the more dangerous. #love #art #beautiful #photography #picoftheday #philosophy #philosopher #read #books #beauty #reading #instagram #read #books #history #reading #love #life #ancient
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Escaping the narrow deconstruction of details
The perspective of quantification is alluring and lends itself to rigor, and therefore has crowded out models of reality that refuse the procrustean bed of mathematics. Escaping the narrow deconstruction of details in favor of the whole is an inversion of the direction of the world since the scientific revolution. #love #art #beautiful #photography #picoftheday #philosophy #philosopher #read #books #beauty #reading #instagram #read #books #history #reading #love #life #ancient
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Finance, at its best, is applied philosophy.
If you are so smart why didn’t you make money on the trade? Finance, at its best, is applied philosophy. #love #art #beautiful #photography #picoftheday #philosophy #philosopher #read #books #beauty #reading #instagram #read #books #history #reading #love #life #ancient
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Cracks In The Culture
Getting to the core of an idea is usually deceptively difficult, the illusion of understanding prevents a deep and more comprehensive understanding. This is why it is said that teaching something is a way to truly understand it, since the bandages of illusion fall away when having to describe to novices. #love #art #beautiful #photography #picoftheday #philosophy #philosopher #read #books #beauty #reading #instagram #read #books #history #reading #love #life #ancient
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An Intro To Girard
Mimetic desire led my attention to Girard who explained his crucial insights into the nature of mimetic desire itself. #love #art #beautiful #photography #picoftheday #philosophy #philosopher #read #books #beauty #reading #instagram #read #books #history #reading #love #life #ancient
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The Metaphysical
What if you really don’t want what you thought you wanted? What if the entire desire to ‘be’ something was something that was instilled in you without your knowledge and uses you towards its own ends? #love #art #beautiful #photography #picoftheday #philosophy #philosopher #read #books #beauty #reading #instagram #read #books #history #reading #love #life #ancient
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Finding A Scapegoat
Envy is deadly, and as social mobility increases, and the entire world becomes more interconnected via the internet and accessibility to travel, the deadly force ever escalates. Girard took this thesis to its conclusion – his faith in an inevitable third world war. #love #art #beautiful #photography #picoftheday #philosophy #philosopher #read #books #beauty #reading #instagram #read #books #history #reading #love #life #ancient