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"Far more important is the Consolation of the Happy Ending. Almost I would venture to assert that all complete fairy-stories must have it. At least I would say that Tragedy is the true form of Drama, its highest function; but the opposite is true of Fairy-story. Since we do not appear to possess a word that expresses this opposite - I will call it Eucatastrope. The eucatastrophic tale is the true form of fairy-tale, and its highest function." J R R Tolkien ~ On Fairy-Stories https://www.youtube.com/live/X2q63NhPEC0

This is going to be a fun read. Been following Dr Ataie's work for nearly a decade now. Going to be reviewing this new book with Metzger students over the next few weeks 😆

i think the gang is getting ramped up for a new season 🔥

be careful! what we saw last night was not a revolution. red and blue are both part of the same system. the "fuck the government" vote might have won again but the government system still exists. View article →

almost feels like nothing and everything changed in the last decade. View article →

"But even here, the revolutionaries misunderstood their own revolution. They believed they had created an alternative to fiat, a hedge against debasement, digital gold. What they had actually birthed was something far more significant. Once you demonstrate that consensus can be achieved through proof-of-work, you have shown that the political can be replaced by the computational. But once time itself is bound into the system, the distinction between planning and markets dissolves. What both market fundamentalists and central planners failed to grasp was that money was never the scarce resource but merely a proxy mechanism for rationing what actually mattered—access to potentialities. Time remains irreversibly scarce. The question was never who owns what, but what happens next." ~ On Economic Philosophy Beyond Bitcoin View article →

ج م 🕌 have tawaqul in Allah! everything could break apart in your life or it could all end suddenly. what else do you have left if not Allah