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No cheese no desert and no manmade cuisine on the planet will be able to surpass…
No cheese no desert and no manmade cuisine on the planet will be able to surpass in taste the simplest food we get after an episode of hunger; and no liquid will ever improve on the taste of water after a prolonged period of thirst. [Chapter 1]
Modernism: The nation-state, top-down invasive governments (indeed this is recen…
Modernism: The nation-state, top-down invasive governments (indeed this is recent), metastatic bureaucracies, compounded iatrogenics, social-science & social engineering (Man playing God), media power, the NYT (yach!), the ludic fallacy, nerd andtloss of heroism, 9-5 jobs, the break with history, linear algebra, Le Corbusier, office buildings, the limited-liability corporation, the agency problem, health club machines,etc. No, the internet may help destroy it
This "hurricane" was all marketing.
This “hurricane” was all marketing.
Le texte intégral (en Français). Les commentaires sont bienvenus. Merci a tous!…
Le texte intégral (en Français). Les commentaires sont bienvenus. Merci a tous!
www.fooledbyrandomness.com/Procruste.pdf
