Allen Roberts > Recent Status Updates

“Perhaps saying that wills are unequally demanding suffices to explain the differences in attention that would perhaps suffice to explain the inequality of intellectual performances.” p. 52

Amazing so far!! 🤯

“Coltrane’s study of African and other non-Western music was a mainstay in bolstering his belief that the purpose of music transcends that of mere entertainment, and can actually socially transform its listeners.” p. 112

“…[C]lassical political science depended on the primacy of domestic policy over foreign policy and of public justice over private interests.” p.30

“…Coltrane’s goal was to discover the music that was most ‘essential’ (in his term), pure sound without those intrinsic aspects that tie it to one time or culture; universal music, the song of God.” p.52

Schopenhauer WAS a grumpy fucker, but that doesn’t mean his analysis of human nature was wrong… 😉

“Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.” p. 26

“Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission? If there is not, how can we account for the attraction which submission to a leader has for so many today?” p. 17

”[T]his isn’t merely the age of the abusive outsized platform; it’s the age of the sick, collapsing abusive outsized platform.
It’s the Enshittocene.” p. 10

Some interesting literary discussion of Tolkien so far.

You gotta love those Mongols, baby! 🐎⚔️🔥

Those crazy Mongols are at it again! 🐎⚔️

So emotionally evocative… 🥹

This had better not end the way I think it might…

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This story is dark, pitch dark, and it will be fascinating to see how it ends…

She has transcended her name, but in doing so she has destroyed all that it meant to be Catia. That is the price the gods demand in war. Boudicca closes her eyes. She sees herself taller than any living being. She is a monster with eyes of fire, clothed in robes of blood.

So far, a most entrancing read…

It’s really getting good now, and to compliment the reading, of course I have been listening to a lot of Rush… 🤟