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  1. May 2021
  2. Aug 2020
    1. Fluidity of memory and a capacity to forget is perhaps the most haunting trait of our species. As history confirms, it allows us to come to terms with any degree of social, moral, or environmental degradation.

      This is depressing. Habituation to sliding life conditions will be the end of civilization.

    1. They reframe the act of refinement over time as a form of waffling.

      interesting because in some ways, the ever-changing theorizing of science makes it fundamentally anti-dogmatic. (except for it's assumption of metaphysical axioms like causation, coherence, etc)

  3. May 2020