antiquity

  • In this post, Georgiev opens with Jimmy Carr’s claim, “I don’t believe in generations,” then follows the thread through Peter Turchin’s counter‑elites and into Aristotle’s theory of emotion. He argues that categories flatten people, while real understanding requires noticing how judgement forms through experience, feeling, and self‑interest. Moving from modern commentary to ancient rhetoric, the…

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  • In this one, Georgiev struggles with why history keeps determining our lives when we’re trying to build something new. He goes through different eras and shows that human essence remains unchanged. He points to Marx and Nietzsche and how ideas escaped containment and are moving not through strong minds but desperate ones. He explains that…

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