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Tim on May 27th, 2009
I got into a small debate/discussion about direct versus representative democracy. Via Twitter. While drinking. Not really the place for significant exposition. I thought of the founders of the US discussing the Federalist Papers. And I thought, “what if?” Not “what if the founders were drunk?” but “what if they were limited to tweets?”
I went […]
Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs gave a talk at TED. In it, he mentions two words that I’ve never heard before, but I do like.
anagnorisis - basically means “discovery”. Aristotle defined anagnorisis as “a change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined by the poet for good or bad fortune”.
peripeteia […]