I have a diagram for this, but basically, as long as no harm is caused...ethics can be bent for right goals, but, for wrong goals even ethical successes in the means are shunned...and rightfully so.

I struggled to see the opposition here, but I guess natural and necessary vs. unnatural and unnecessary...so I guess it fits.

Not to take too seriously...this is just art from the past....

Do people REALLY have to particularize things to feel special? Can't we stick to the universals?

This is an important supporting quote. He constantly refers to this idea with his quotes and understanding this is the difference between half understanding what he's talking about and fully understanding.

AI: "Otium" is Latin for a specific kind of cultivated leisure — not idleness or laziness, but time deliberately set aside from public/political/business duties (negotium, literally "not-leisure," the root of our word "negotiate") for reading, writing, philosophy, contemplation, or the arts.

Miguel here is great at parties....😁

Generosity is the "virtue" of the privileged....

There is no absolute truth.= paradox, There is an absolute truth.= seemingly consistent. What is truth, absolutely? What is absolute, exhaustively? THAT's the grey area not shown.

The original hustle culture bro....

In the minimal sense that there are those who try to do good things but don't have any real empathetic understanding...I think this sentiment is true...beyond that it's torn apart in two seconds...

...or all the things that happened for a thousand generations that led to you...or the fact that all branches that didn't happen are meaningless to us and we think the one that did happen is so significant. How insignificant we'd feel if we could see all the possibilities with the same significance.

If the system remains truly democratic...

I wish I could get rich...to go on vacations...yeah...but also to see if I could truly maintain a virtuous stand while affected...you think you will...but you don't KNOW....

Localized doesn't have to mean absent a universal. The options don't have to be atomized vs. identity group. What you are before you choose is determined and universal. Simple and not inherently violent or nonviolent.

Progress can be slow, but one can kill another in a matter of seconds....

First thoughts were "Google" and "Yahoo". Then I thought about the Cybertruck. I guess we should remember some things stay foolish.

"It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of capital or merely an article of wealth. Thus, the lathe of a manufacturer used in making things which are to be exchanged is capital, while the lathe kept by a gentleman for his own amusement is not."
- Henry George

See biography for Henry George:
https://civilsimian.com/Henry-George

Read Henry George's work:
https://civilsimian.com/user/241/content

"In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth."
- Xunzi

See biography for Xunzi:
https://civilsimian.com/Xunzi

Read Xunzi's work:
https://civilsimian.com/user/200/content