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The Odyssey maximizer. Of the people who claim to have read the Odyssey, I would say at best 15% of them have. And of that 15%, maybe 10% genuinely had the knowledge, familiarity with the time, people, place, technology, wars, cultures and conflicts to have anything of interest extracted and result in knowledge of the material. It’s like they “died with the odyssey” rather than “from the odyssey” Most normal people don’t want to spend a lifetime in the rabbit holes of “why did xyz use this word and not that word” “why did he say this and not that” and so on and so on, forever. How many copies of the book sold last year, maybe at best, I’d guess worldwide - maybe around 200,000 and that’s across all countries, languages, translations and they all seem to those convene on X like it’s the bar on Cheers “Norm!” I have studied in depth Machiavelli, the sources Machiavelli refers to, the Borgia’s, The medicis, the history of Florence, his plays and not just Livy’s histories but the histories he used as source material, so I understand machiavelli’s intention of irony, I understand thr use of cruelty in the shocking death of de orco , I understand his use of numbers and so in and so in. I have read many many academic papers covering the most minute things in his works. I don’t discuss Machiavelli except in passing, I acknowledge “oh you read The Prince (a shorter book usually assigned in schools because it easily fits within the semester)” and then usually disengage. Should a movie be made of any of his works I would see it and if it gets a few people interested in learning more and going to the library that would be great. Likewise, for almost all people - the Machiavelli movie would be enough to have satiated their desire to know ‘who he is and what he wrote and why he wrote it’ I am not a snob. I read just enough Plato to say “I read Plato” and that’s it. Some people want to delve deep into his works. I didn’t - but by definition I have “read Plato” But Plato is easy to read because it’s bite size. The odyssey isn’t bite size. Remarkable that on this platform that exploits a super quick attention span, these same users who can’t make it though an axios article or a 4 tweet thread can flip a switch in their noodle and transform themselves into the Burgess Meredith character in The Twilight Zone. These are the notes I have taken of the things I have read and my own writing to please the cognitive senses👇 (The ones marked “audiobook’d” are so I could also absorb the material by “hearing it in my head”) 👇

The Odyssey maximizer. Of the people who claim to have read the Odyssey, I would say at best 15% of them have. And of that 15%, maybe 10% genuinely had the knowledge, familiarity with the time, people, place, technology, wars, cultures and conflicts to have anything of interest extracted and result in knowledge of the material. It’s like they “died with the odyssey” rather than “from the odyssey” Most normal people don’t want to spend a lifetime in the rabbit holes of “why did xyz use this word and not that word” “why did he say this and not that” and so on and so on, forever. How many copies of the book sold last year, maybe at best, I’d guess worldwide - maybe around 200,000 and that’s across all countries, languages, translations and they all seem to those convene on X like it’s the bar on Cheers “Norm!” I have studied in depth Machiavelli, the sources Machiavelli refers to, the Borgia’s, The medicis, the history of Florence, his plays and not just Livy’s histories but the histories he used as source material, so I understand machiavelli’s intention of irony, I understand thr use of cruelty in the shocking death of de orco , I understand his use of numbers and so in and so in. I have read many many academic papers covering the most minute things in his works. I don’t discuss Machiavelli except in passing, I acknowledge “oh you read The Prince (a shorter book usually assigned in schools because it easily fits within the semester)” and then usually disengage. Should a movie be made of any of his works I would see it and if it gets a few people interested in learning more and going to the library that would be great. Likewise, for almost all people - the Machiavelli movie would be enough to have satiated their desire to know ‘who he is and what he wrote and why he wrote it’ I am not a snob. I read just enough Plato to say “I read Plato” and that’s it. Some people want to delve deep into his works. I didn’t - but by definition I have “read Plato” But Plato is easy to read because it’s bite size. The odyssey isn’t bite size. Remarkable that on this platform that exploits a super quick attention span, these same users who can’t make it though an axios article or a 4 tweet thread can flip a switch in their noodle and transform themselves into the Burgess Meredith character in The Twilight Zone. These are the notes I have taken of the things I have read and my own writing to please the cognitive senses👇 (The ones marked “audiobook’d” are so I could also absorb the material by “hearing it in my head”) 👇

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Somewhere around 25% of the entire Canadian workforce is employed by the government. Another +/- 10% is peripherally employed by the government as school teachers, health workers, NGOs and nonprofit staffers. The entire apparatus of its journalism’s is government funded and sanctioned. Anybody you see saying Canada got a good deal and “wow” is either an idiot or their professional life depends on it

Somewhere around 25% of the entire Canadian workforce is employed by the government. Another +/- 10% is peripherally employed by the government as school teachers, health workers, NGOs and nonprofit staffers. The entire apparatus of its journalism’s is government funded and sanctioned. Anybody you see saying Canada got a good deal and “wow” is either an idiot or their professional life depends on it

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🔎 Search results for Eugene Gu tweeting "die on the streets"

🔎 Search results for Eugene Gu tweeting "die on the streets"

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🌞 Folks, we gotta stay alive. Watch this. 🥤 Dana White is on a water fast and regaining his life.

🌞 Folks, we gotta stay alive. Watch this. 🥤 Dana White is on a water fast and regaining his life.

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🍿🥤 Watch this, cos 😱 Victor Davis Hanson: "Brace Yourself For What's Coming in 2024"

🍿🥤 Watch this, cos 😱 Victor Davis Hanson: "Brace Yourself For What's Coming in 2024"

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The corporate silence on the assassination of Charlie Kirk is deafening 🔇 No flags in profile, no tributes, no pledges of money to Turning Point USA, no demands for "justice", no talk about "inclusion", no company wide 'listening' meetings They want you to forget

837,889 次观看 • 10 个月前

📺 If you didn't grow up with The Partridge Family you don't know, so now you know 🎶 Classic song, ROCKS. 🎚️ Turn up the volume, loud

📺 If you didn't grow up with The Partridge Family you don't know, so now you know 🎶 Classic song, ROCKS. 🎚️ Turn up the volume, loud

54,367 次观看 • 21 天前

🌞folks, we gotta stay alive. Watch this. Dana White is on a water fast and regaining his life.

🌞folks, we gotta stay alive. Watch this. Dana White is on a water fast and regaining his life.

1,946,656 次观看 • 2 年前

🥷 2 assassination attempts later, it's time to (re)watch this: 🍿 🥤 cos 😱 back in November 2023 Victor Davis Hanson warned us to "Brace Yourself For What's Coming in 2024", and here we are...

🥷 2 assassination attempts later, it's time to (re)watch this: 🍿 🥤 cos 😱 back in November 2023 Victor Davis Hanson warned us to "Brace Yourself For What's Coming in 2024", and here we are...

614,374 次观看 • 1 年前

I''ll tell you the moment I knew the education industry was doomed, dinosaur'd. I've been active for years in helping kids graduating high school and in their freshmen year of college - to get internships in some very cool major companies, idea is to direct your edu to what employers anticapte hiring for and to acquire/cultivate advocates withing the companies. So, one day I'm at a meditation retreat - Kadampa in upstate NY. I just got there, put my clothes in the room and I joined the picnic table for lunch. 👇

I''ll tell you the moment I knew the education industry was doomed, dinosaur'd. I've been active for years in helping kids graduating high school and in their freshmen year of college - to get internships in some very cool major companies, idea is to direct your edu to what employers anticapte hiring for and to acquire/cultivate advocates withing the companies. So, one day I'm at a meditation retreat - Kadampa in upstate NY. I just got there, put my clothes in the room and I joined the picnic table for lunch. 👇

224,911 次观看 • 7 个月前

🤔 Here’s Glenn Greenwald defending Hamas and Hezbollah at the 2012 Socialism Conference.

🤔 Here’s Glenn Greenwald defending Hamas and Hezbollah at the 2012 Socialism Conference.

126,687 次观看 • 4 个月前

📺 If you didn't grow up with The Monkees you don't know, so now you know 🎶 Classic song, ROCKS. 🎚️ Turn up the volume

📺 If you didn't grow up with The Monkees you don't know, so now you know 🎶 Classic song, ROCKS. 🎚️ Turn up the volume

16,839 次观看 • 17 天前

🤔 I think about this video from NYC's subway a lot, lotta life lessons. Wilson refused to sit down, wasn't wearing pants, refused to drink (even though he was asked nicely many times) I'm not saying Wilson deserved to get split in half but FAFO 🤷‍♂️

🤔 I think about this video from NYC's subway a lot, lotta life lessons. Wilson refused to sit down, wasn't wearing pants, refused to drink (even though he was asked nicely many times) I'm not saying Wilson deserved to get split in half but FAFO 🤷‍♂️

158,828 次观看 • 8 个月前

🚨 YOU’RE GETTING SERVED FBI is gonna arrest maybe 40 or so of the RICO’ists in Minnesota, maybe a few dozen more from around the country. At most. 🎭 But it’s all a show and politicians and law enforcement are already using the language of theatre - “accountability” “hearings” The fraud clearly involves thousands of people, maybe even tens of thousands across dozens of states 💰 And every politician in those cities and states, and every police officer and every social worker is complicit. As taxpayers we’ve been told, and paid for “community services” to meet the needs of “the community”, yet somehow none of them knew what was happening “in the community” Fukc off. 🚔 If there’s isn’t arrests by Monday morning consider the case closed

🚨 YOU’RE GETTING SERVED FBI is gonna arrest maybe 40 or so of the RICO’ists in Minnesota, maybe a few dozen more from around the country. At most. 🎭 But it’s all a show and politicians and law enforcement are already using the language of theatre - “accountability” “hearings” The fraud clearly involves thousands of people, maybe even tens of thousands across dozens of states 💰 And every politician in those cities and states, and every police officer and every social worker is complicit. As taxpayers we’ve been told, and paid for “community services” to meet the needs of “the community”, yet somehow none of them knew what was happening “in the community” Fukc off. 🚔 If there’s isn’t arrests by Monday morning consider the case closed

91,163 次观看 • 7 个月前

📆 Flashback to August 14, 2017, Trump retweets Jack Poso 🇺🇸 Jack and Tanya Tay Posobiec ☦️ were such kids, wow. History!

📆 Flashback to August 14, 2017, Trump retweets Jack Poso 🇺🇸 Jack and Tanya Tay Posobiec ☦️ were such kids, wow. History!

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Watch this, when he genuinely wants to know "why did you do that". Lotsa lessons in that and that simple question revealed the prankster as a coward

Watch this, when he genuinely wants to know "why did you do that". Lotsa lessons in that and that simple question revealed the prankster as a coward

160,298 次观看 • 1 年前

🍿🥤 Watch: Flashback to June 2021 and this Periscope chat w/Jack Poso 🇺🇸 - author of The Antifa: Stories From Inside the Black Bloc We discuss the DeploraBall, Antifa's capacity for violence, CHAZ and so on... Cos history has happened before, and it keeps happening again

🍿🥤 Watch: Flashback to June 2021 and this Periscope chat w/Jack Poso 🇺🇸 - author of The Antifa: Stories From Inside the Black Bloc We discuss the DeploraBall, Antifa's capacity for violence, CHAZ and so on... Cos history has happened before, and it keeps happening again

114,439 次观看 • 10 个月前

🫂 Not sure why Ray Dalio deleted his tweet and why he made private the YouTube video of his intimate chat with Puff Diddy 🤷‍♂️ Whatever, internet is (still) forever, so here it is 👇

🫂 Not sure why Ray Dalio deleted his tweet and why he made private the YouTube video of his intimate chat with Puff Diddy 🤷‍♂️ Whatever, internet is (still) forever, so here it is 👇

209,313 次观看 • 1 年前

Amy Acton v Vivek gonna be tough. She’s got all the bullets points hammered home, comes across authentic, likable; she has lots of (rhetorical) distance from “the crazy wing of the party” - this halts Vivek being able to associate her with “radicals”. Couple this with other Dems coming into soak up data/micro targeting and then once a Dem primary result occurs they’ll collapse around the pocket and pool all the data and 💥

Amy Acton v Vivek gonna be tough. She’s got all the bullets points hammered home, comes across authentic, likable; she has lots of (rhetorical) distance from “the crazy wing of the party” - this halts Vivek being able to associate her with “radicals”. Couple this with other Dems coming into soak up data/micro targeting and then once a Dem primary result occurs they’ll collapse around the pocket and pool all the data and 💥

83,534 次观看 • 8 个月前

4 minutes of Bush, Cheney, Inc. lying us into the war in Iraq. I lived thru this, every day, for the last 20+ years. So have you

4 minutes of Bush, Cheney, Inc. lying us into the war in Iraq. I lived thru this, every day, for the last 20+ years. So have you

246,681 次观看 • 2 年前

Look at this guys feed.

Look at this guys feed.

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