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We are very much the same animals, biologically speaking, as we were then. With the same built in proficiencies and deficiencies. To me that's one of the great
by ycombinete 3y ago
We are very much the same animals, biologically speaking, as we were then. With the same built in proficiencies and deficiencies.
To me that's one of the great values of these old philosophical/psychological texts. They can reveal what is essential and what is accidental in us.
- namaria 3y agoFor all the convolution Nassin Taleb has published (you really have to put what he publishes in the perspective of a guy who thought up a bet against the grain of the conventional thinking in financial markets, won big and got to live off that and just publish opinion pieces forevermore), I think he hit the nail on the head with the idea that very old books still in print are worth reading. The older the better, precisely because of what you said. I got more insight from reading Gilgamesh than from whole semesters of my college years.