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"1) The democratic nation-state basically operates like a criminal cartel, forcing honest citizens to surrender large portions of their wealth to pay for stuff like roads and hospitals and schools.

2) The rise of the internet, and the advent of cryptocurrencies, will make it impossible for governments to intervene in private transactions and to tax incomes, thereby liberating individuals from the political protection racket of democracy.

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3) The state will consequently become obsolete as a political entity.

4) Out of this wreckage will emerge a new global dispensation, in which a “cognitive elite” will rise to power and influence, as a class of sovereign individuals “commanding vastly greater resources” who will no longer be subject to the power of nation-states and will redesign governments to suit their ends.

The Sovereign Individual is, in the most literal of senses, an apocalyptic text."

[via +Bjarne Panduro Tveskov]

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-valley-billionaires-are-prepping-for-the-apocalypse-in-new-zealand?CMP=twt_gu

Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand

The long read: How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies ? written by Jacob Rees-Mogg?s father ? inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific

Åh, hvor er jeg vild med de her tre midaldrende, hvide patriark-mænd i magtpositioner og hepper voldsomt på dem. De tager ytringsfrihed præcis så alvorligt, som den skal tages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWVmDSMl30s

Deconstruction: The Lindsay Shepherd Affair

In November 2017, Wilfred Laurier University teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd was called to a disciplinary meeting by two professors (Nathan Rambukkana an...

Omskæringshumor og let misinformation i let fransk etnisk forviklingskomedie (det er en genre)

https://www.dr.dk/tv/se/bryllupskaos/-/bryllupskaos#!/02:24

Bryllupskaos | DRTV

Fransk komedie fra 2014. (Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu?) Claude og Marie havde håbet, at deres fire døtre ville gifte sig med gode katolske mænd. Men til parrets forfærdelse har de tre ældste piger fundet sammen med en araber, en jøde og en asiat....

Originally shared by Kevin Kelly

My friend (and probably your friend) John Perry Barlow died yesterday. Here is my ode to him.

https://boingboing.net/2018/02/08/john-barlow-mayor-of-the-inte.html

John Barlow: Mayor of the Internet

Barlow (that?s what most of his friends called him) flaunted his complexity. He advertised himself as a Republican Deadhead, as a cowboy hacker, a spiritual rationalist, a womanizing feminist?

Herr Peter Lyberth spurgte engang hvorfor folk kunne lide Joe Rogans podcast. Jeg tror ikke at det er Rogan folk kan lide (han er ikke superkvik eller supermorsom). Men han lader interessante mennesker tale ud. Her fortæller Jordan Peterson fx. hvorfor vi har brug for venstrefløjen uden at blive unødvendigt afbrudt.

https://youtu.be/6T7pUEZfgdI?t=45m

Joe Rogan Experience #1070 - Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and tenured professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_f53ZEJxp8Ttl...

Amerikansk politi: "Ward said the unit’s supervisor, Sgt. Wayne Jenkins, instructed the officers to carry replica guns to plant if they found themselves in a jam. Police recovered a replica gun from the glove box of Taylor’s vehicle after he was arrested last year. The gun, shown to jurors, is nearly indistinguishable from Taylor’s service pistol."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-gun-trace-task-force-gttf-testimony-highlights-20180126-story.html

Forskellige måder at interviewe på. Interessant både for interviewere og interview-forbrugere.

https://twitter.com/stevensnedker/status/954253910834864129

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“Dejligt interview. Doven/uforberedt interviewer sættes konsekvent på plads af gæsten i god ro og orden. Morale: invitér flere kloge mennesker og forbered bedre. https://t.co/U5KzXfbsqM”

Tænk hvad folk ikke gjorde i tiden før Netflix-serier.

https://www.gq.com/story/quincy-jones-has-a-story ⟲

Quincy Jones Has a Story About That

Quincy Jones has run with Frank Sinatra. Michael Jackson. Malcolm X. Prince. Even Tupac. And the 84-year-old music legend has a tale to go with every famous name.

Here are the 52 key points I took from a reading of Seneca's Letters

They are possibly the most useful book of distilled wisdom in the whole of literature inspiring Montaigne and many others. Also highly readable.

If anyone is interested I can create a free PDF with these plus the earlier visuals and other thoughts on Stoicism.

1.Always have clear priorities

2.Seek what is enough, then stop

3.Judge people before you place your trust in them

4.Be able to be both “on” and “off”

5.Improve yourself a little each day

6.Conform to what is natural

7.Limit your desires to reduce fear

8.Share your learning

9.Learn to like yourself

10.Teach to learn

11.Avoid mass crowds

12.To better yourself surround yourself with better people

13.To reduce cravings don’t have wealthy neighbours

14.When fortune smiles on you don’t let that be a snare

15.It is OK to feel your troubles – and then overcome them

16.If you want to be loved, then love

17.You will derive more pleasure from painting than from having completed a picture

18.Set yourself high standards perhaps embodied in someone you respect

19.Die without regrets

20.Develop your body a little but to overdevelop is wasteful

21.Be grateful (a life of folly is empty of gratitude)

22.Remind yourself of your good achievements

23.Perfection of wisdom makes the happy life

24.Prepare yourself to deal with obstacles

25.Slum it occasionally

26.Be OK with obstacles but don’t seek them out

27.Awareness of a problem is the first step to solving it

28.To understand something full go way beyond memorizing quotes

29.Learn to be a teacher one day not just a pupil

30.To create new things, you must be discontent with how things are

31.Speak slowly and clearly

32.Treat others as you would wish to be treated

33.To be happy you must think of others, not just yourself

34.Learn essential things, not just inessential ones

35.Strength comes from hardship

36.Pace yourself – you don’t need to have every experience now

37.Ask yourself: Are you living to your full potential?

38.You are what you think you are

39.To avoid being tired of life, view the variety, majesty and sublimity of the world

40.Seek moderation – if you overdo pleasures they become punishments

41.Wisdom lies beyond books

42.Things aren’t that hard you need a bit of confidence and to just do get going

43.Don’t become a slave to your wealth

44.A good foundation for peace of mind is not to wrong others

45.Life is no soft affair. Expect a few bumps and don’t sweat the small stuff

46.Tame your love of learning

47.Come to learn not just to wear the badge

48.Search out helpful teaching that is capable of immediate practical application

49.Seek your pleasures in things that are easy to come by

50.You might not be able to have everything you want. But you can learn not to want the things you can’t have.

51.Learn not to crave these: Wealth, pleasure, good looks, political advancement

52.Learn not to fear these: Exertion, death, pain, disgrace, limited means