Yuni Amir > Recent Status Updates

Poverty’s no vice!

Ohh! Now the plot is picking up!

The symbolic order-the paper publications, the applause, the job postings, the grants-was not the point. Even the Oxbridge credentials .. were not the point. Those were only instrumentally valuable to secure what Alice really wanted, which was unhampered time and access to the necessary resources to think.

Same Alice. Same.

I can imagine winter

Hell’s punishment: rehabilitation vs. retribution? How does logic work in Hell?

I love how the writer put into words of the unknowns for the unknown.

“The worse the society, the more law there will be. In hell there will be nothing but law, and due process will be meticulously observed”

“Now, there may be some superman somewhere that thinks they know everything going on in their company in every department, in every level, in every country, and every employee. But I think it would be very unrealistic”

Then, no point of paying ginormous salaries and bonuses to CEOs. That is essentially the CEO role. To know every dotted i and crossed t.

I’m annoyed 😒

Cultures with more income inequality have less social capital. Trust requires reciprocity, and reciprocity requires equality, whereas hierarchy is about domination and asymmetry.

I’ve learned my lesson: don’t let reviews shape my opinion of a book, especially a silkpunk fantasy (what even is this genre?)

The first 100 pages are so good!

God, so they believed, wrote his rulings on the human heart.

“Christians who believed themselves endowed by revelation with insights into God’s purposes were a menace to the Church, and to the great fabric of its order, constructed with such care and effort over the thousand years since Christ”

Same across all.

From martyr to the opposite. Repeat this cycle for the next 2,000 years.

“Would she always do the things I was supposed to do, before and better than me?”

He threw his daughter out of the window?!

“Breivik was killing an average of one person a minute”

Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse…