A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent.
~ Norbert Wiener
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Monthly Archives: January 2025
Campus Life at the
Lakehead University
Campus Life at
the University of Utah
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In the past decade, the hope that the European Union could win some measure of military or financial independence from America has proved illusory. Instead, the continent has slid into ever deeper dependence on the United States. Yet such a drift will accelerate rather than halt the decline European Union leaders bemoan; bulk buying American weapons and energy, for instance, will not make European industry world leading again.
~ Anton Jäger via The New York Times
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Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
~ Milan Kundera
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The Russian revolution was not a socialist revolution, but a managerial revolution. Today Russia is the nation which has, in its structural aspects, advanced furthest along the managerial road.
~ James Burnham
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Campus Life at
the University of Delaware
Campus Life at
the University of Leeds
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We are in an age of politics when every victory is Pyrrhic, because to gain office is to become the very thing—the establishment, the incumbent—that a part of your citizenry will inevitably want to replace. Democrats have been temporarily banished to the wilderness by a counterrevolution, but if the trends of the 21st century hold, then the very anti-incumbent mechanisms that brought them defeat this year will eventually bring them back to power.
~ Derek Thompson
via How Donald Trump Won Everywhere
published by The Atlantic
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A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished.
~ Claude Shannon
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