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But What For Newsletter – #8 – Practical Thought, Good Omens, Cicero, Blockchain

• stanrivers 6y ago
  "No matter how apparently successful it may seem upon the way, at the end it will wreck itself. It will founder upon the rocks of iniquity and sink headfirst to vanish without trace into the seas of oblivion. Crowly considered this. ‘Nah,’ he said at last. ‘For my money, it was just average incompetence.’" ... "‘I do not reject peace,’ he said, ‘but I am afraid of war disguised as peace.’" ... "I’ve been hearing a lot about blockchain in the last few years. I mean, who hasn’t? It’s everywhere. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who thought: but what is it then, for God’s sake, this whole blockchain thing? And what’s so terribly revolutionary about it? What problem does it solve?" ... "That food was grapefruit, a seemingly ordinary fruit that is, in truth, anything but ordinary. Right from the moment of its discovery, the grapefruit has been a true oddball. Its journey started in a place where it didn’t belong, and ended up in a lab in a place where it doesn’t grow. Hell, even the name doesn’t make any sense."