European intellectual history: literature, philosophy, social & political thought. American expat living in South America.
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Success and wealth creation, when earned through voluntary exchange in a free society, require no apology.
Randall A. See retweeted
The United States needs a Strategic #Bitcoin Reserve.
Claiming to be "on the right side of history" is a hackneyed phrase. It's the secular equivalent of saying "it's God's will."
“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.” Edward Gibbon 1737-1794
“ Bitcoin is the apex property of the human race. There is no property invented in the history of mankind that is better than Bitcoin. Not land, not gold, not silver, not stocks, not bonds, not the giant stone coin of the Yap people, not NTF’s, not art, not baseball cards. Nothing, nothing.”
Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman, MicroStrategy and Bitcoin enthusiast
“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.”
George Orwell 1903-1950
“That would be enough. Even if I never write, complete, publish anything at all, ever, that would be enough. A padded seat and a standard lamp (and of course an open book). That would be enough. Then I would be a part of it.
Martín Amis (1949-2023)
Inside Story
Randall A. See retweeted
Julian Assange's wife speaking at yesterday's European Parliament Press Seminar on the Sakharov Prize for which the publisher was nominated as a finalist: "Julian is suffering profoundly...our children need their father and this injustice must end" @Stella_Assange #FreeAssangeNOW
My life is as simple as I can make it... I almost never go out. I suppose everyone tries to ignore the passing of time: some people by doing a lot...or there’s my way—making every day and every year exactly the same. Probably neither works. Phillip Larkin, 1982
