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like that cutting pizza with a sword meme. "oh actually ron chernow style biographies are bad because people don't have beliefs or desires." like writing a letter to the irs that you don't have to do your taxes because parmenides proved reality is a single featureless sphere. (as another book i'm reading this is not exactly convincingly argued but does get fun points for being so charmingly insane.)