If you’re not paying attention to what is happening in India, my friends, you should. Secular democracy is under threat from ethnonationalist extremists in the world’s second largest country & largest democracy, housing 1/5th of humanity. https://t.co/K9D9PwE7eA
— Iona Italia (@IonaItalia) March 17, 2019
A counter-proposal: the most important things in life are those you neglect in your attempts to appear superficially informed on issues about which you can meaningfully do nothing.
“And while I shall keep silent about some points, I do not want to remain silent about my morality which says to me: Live in seclusion so that you can live for yourself. Live in ignorance about what seems most important to your age. Between yourself and today lay the skin of at least three centuries. And the clamor of today, the noise of wars and revolutions should be a mere murmur for you.”
— Nietzsche, The Gay Science
March 18, 2019 @ 1:40 pm
Hear! Hear!
March 18, 2019 @ 4:46 pm
I’m sure we’ve all had the same thought while browsing the web: “You know what this place needs? A lot more half-baked amateur punditry at high volume, that’s what.”