'If one cannot find a value that transcends oneself, life itself, in a spiritual sense, is rendered meaningless.' Yukio Mishima

Or - any art, religion, or philosophy that is NOT transcendent - is worthless.

Didn't this guy commit suicide?

he was so smart that he talked himself into killing himself - a loser all the way

Well yes, in a spiritual sense

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Milton Friedman was wrong about almost everything. So why is his zombie economics still running the world?

A propos of nothing, a major throughline in the work of political theorist Mahmood Mamdani is that the modern imperial state is distinct from earlier empires in its desire not to eradicate difference, but to shape and define it, and then govern through those hierarchies.

Original sketch of the Radium atom by Niels Bohr (1922).