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This is very interesting on a number of levels.
From personal experience, this matches up. I have met many people without formal education (probably as many as with) who are well-versed, knowledgeable and always intellectually engaged at a very high level.
Second, the comment about how Marxist ideology tries to refute this is noteworthy. This is the problem with socialism: it tries to create this picture wherein there’s one class with money and privilege who knows everything because of their access to knowledge and another that is exploited by this class. This is insulting and untrue, and it appears this book shows that untruth up.
Finally, the idea that TV and universities have inherently dumbed down society among working people is as true as it is at the top; just look at the lacking quality of modern politicians for an immediate example. Universities are for those who want to get an advanced academic education in order to further a specific field of knowledge, and probably are best not used as a right of passage into adulthood generally, whereby apprenticeships would be a much better way.
I’ll read this. Interesting subject matter.
This was an illuminating read.
The intellectual life or "high culture" was never something that only the elites enjoyed.
In England, there has long existed a widespread, self-directed culture of education among the working class. Coal miners in industrial England read voraciously, many of them self-studying history or even Latin after long shifts underground.
Rose overturns the assumption that the working classes of industrial Britain were largely uneducated or intellectually disengaged. Miners and mill workers in fact built personal libraries and formed societies to study Shakespeare, Dickens, Milton, even Plato.
While elites might have consumed culture for status, ordinary readers engaged with it morally and personally. They saw in Shakespeare and the classics a means of moral development and self-mastery — this revelation directly challenges the 20th-century academic assumption (inspired by postmodernism and Marxist cultural studies) that "high culture" is inherently exclusionary.
Pulling from autobiographies and letters, Rose shows that workers often described reading as a form of inner liberation, citing writers like Ruskin, Carlyle, and Dickens as their moral guides. They read with a degree of seriousness we rarely see today, treating their books as beloved companions in a lifelong pursuit of wisdom.
The rise of mass media and television following WWII caused a preference for reading to slowly give way to one for passive entertainment.
And the democratization of education paradoxically coincided with a lowering of intellectual standards — just as more people than ever attend university today, yet popular culture as a whole is much less intellectually vibrant than it was 50 years ago.
Back in the 80s we all thought these were going to be a thing at the turn of the Millennium so, in other words, the world has been waiting for one of these for 26 years! 🤣 🎉 🚗 ✈️ 🤩 … very well done! They’re here at last!
If you do a number of random things infinitely but with discipline you will find the results pay off. The key is to filter by a mix of intuition and intelligence. You need to be very sharp for that! Good post though, genuinely thought-provoking.
I'm convinced that if you tweet infinite times on X, you will find the opportunity you're looking for, even if you don't yet know what that is. It could be a job opportunity, a client, an investor, a business partner, a good friend, heck or even your wife/husband. It only takes one banger tweet. No strategy, no overthinking, off the cuff, pure retardmaxxing takes. Have fun with it, and stay openminded. You don't need to know where it'll go, you just need to stay in motion.
This is a very important nuance that’s so often lost today. True conservatism is much more liberal than socialism. It believes in the empowerment of the individual, free enterprise, free market, and the right of privacy and autonomy of the individual first and foremost. Until there’s a right wing politician in power who is ready to reduce the size, cost and influence of the State, there can be no true liberalism at all.
My father was much more Liberal, but that's very much closer to being conservative than socialist. He was very independent and didn't believe in being dependent on the state in any way.
So we were brought up with this feeling that, first, it's your bounden duty to take responsibility for your own life. You work for yourself and for your family, and you save, and then you look after the unfortunate. It was our bounden duty to be independent of the state if we possibly could be. If we were really unfortunate, then and only then did we rely on the state.
Naturally, the whole structure of the free society — freedom, the rule of law, the free enterprise society and the generosity to others out of your own efforts — was very much more in keeping with the Conservative Party.
There is one journalist who’s actually doing journalism on the Epstein story right now and that’s @Jay_Beecher. His substack, where you can listen to the weekly podcasts, is well worth subscribing to. This guy is a foreign disinformation agent’s and contingency lawyer’s nightmare, which is exactly the way journalism should be done!
You can sign up to his substack here:
substack.com/@jaybeecher?r=4…
So good to see someone doing proper reporting, especially on this topic, nowadays. Makes me wonder how the Maxwell verdict came in guilty too, when she’s clearly innocent. Something needs to be reviewed there, and in the media’s treatment of Virginia Giuffre and some of the other “survivors” who are clearly, for the most part, mentally unwell people manipulated by money-hungry Florida attorneys.
Very true. This is mainly because doing what greatness requires often leads directly to the consequence of not being great for a very long period, and only after then, once lessons have been learned and time has passed, does greatness come.
I always say as a Brit that Israel is the closest thing to the former British Empire that there is today! Similar small country, excellent intelligence services and military, dynamic, innovative population just doing their thing and growing, and looking to educate the world about higher ways and purposes. This is partly why I’m such a fan of Israel. This will always produce some friction in places, but it’s ultimately bound to be a successful society that reaches Empirical status. It would be nice if Britain got its act back together and did the same, to be honest.
The whole Gaza thing is a bit like the Northern Irish thing, just a more extreme version. When viewed through this lens, it’s clear there’s no ‘genocide’ or any sort of terminal aspect to the Israeli plans for the area; rather it’s about annexation for security purposes. This is an argument many are unwilling to hear right now, but history will judge it so.
Funnily enough this is not so far from the truth. All the cigarette companies nowadays do a big chunk of business partnering with biotech companies who make treatments and cures for various things. They have a lot of chemical knowledge and infrastructure so it’s useful for the biotechs!
While it is fair to expect reciprocity, it is unfair to hold MBS to the same standard as Netanyahu. This is the complexity. MBS has a much more tenuous position as certain factions of Saudi Arabia aren’t thrilled with the changes he’s made (it’s a minority but they’re powerful).
At the same time, MBS’ biggest play probably comes from just doing a deal with Israel at some point and saying, “screw it, we are going all in, and if you don’t like it, so what.”
This is a delicate process internally in Saudi Arabia and needs the right conditions and timing to be in place. I am sure it will come and will be done. Saudi has far more to gain aligned with Israel than it does against it, as today’s barbaric Houthi attacks show.
Bibi’s statement was a class act, 10/10 points for this!
These terrorists in Gaza (Hamas) and Yemen (Houthis) could not be more dumb if they tried! Imagine targeting Israel on Oct 7 and a few years later choosing 11 Oct as your attack date for Saudi. Now, remember, your goal is to divide the Muslim and the Jewish world, but you choose 2 almost identical dates to start terrorist attacks on the only Jewish economy and the largest, if not major, Arab economy’s people.
This goes to show that both Palestine and Yemen are essentially finished as states as we know them. The changes will be enormous over the next 30 years. That goes for Iran as a state too, who is sponsoring all this.
They will see extremist ideology that divides Jews and Muslims fall by the wayside. Those who held out for economic prosperity and hope for peace will prevail.
This is why a deal between Saudi and Israel would make so much sense.
Both are going up, while GDP growth is stronger on the Saudi Arabia side and per capita on the Israeli side. Combine this and it’s an incredible solution!
Capital + Innovation = True Success!
I’ve written about Japanese pharma companies before:
uk.investing.com/news/stock-…
Japanese pharma companies are significantly undervalued right now. The next few major medical breakthroughs will come out of Japan.
Golda Meir was a legend.
The thing that people miss with Israel is the obvious: just like Singapore becoming an independent state (in ‘65), there is no question that the country Israel as an independent nation (‘48) has fared much better off as a result.
It’s really very self evincing. There is no arguing this as it’s an economic fact. I’m surprised not to see the comparison more often drawn given the huge similarities.
Golda Meir, 1970: before the First World War this was not a Palestinian state. It was southern Syria under the Ottomans.
Then a British Mandate. Jews and Arabs.
No Palestinian nation. No country taken from a people that did not exist.
She was right and my god what a leader and woman she was. There is no such thing as Palestine. Stand with Israel. 🇮🇱 🙏💪
I mean … that’s politics 🤣 Literally 99% of people at the top of any profession are exactly the same! What made Lord Archer unusual was that he started out with nothing and rose to the great heights of political influence. Most don’t start with nothing; there’s a nest egg there to propel them along. It would be nicer to see more bottom-up success stories today like his, but I fear that’s not the case.
Every story in the foreign press today about the Russian plague is based on one news story which has essentially been copy-pasted and rewritten. Here it is:
baikal-journal.ru/2026/10/06…
This story is not behind a paywall and free for everyone to read, and represents an example of excellent journalism.
Very sad to see media is smearing the girl who worked at the plague institute, and was clearly a great scientist, so this should also stop. At the same time, many unanswered questions here.
