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If Everyone Believes It, It's Probably Wrong - The Philosophy of Socrates (& Plato)

Pursuit of Wonder · 3 min read

Socrates and Plato left behind a legacy less about settled answers than about disciplined doubt—and that uncertainty still shapes how people think...

SocratesPlatoSocratic Paradox

How Inflation Precipitates Societal Collapse

Academy of Ideas · 3 min read

Monetary inflation—creating new money through the state or central banks—can set off a chain reaction that destroys trust in money, breaks economic...

Monetary InflationRoman CoinagePrice Controls

Will Civilization Collapse?

Academy of Ideas · 3 min read

Civilizations don’t usually collapse because of a single outside shock; they decline when internal strength and moral cohesion erode until external...

Civilizational CollapseInternal CausesGlubb Pasha Lifecycle

Is Humanity Doomed? | Carl Jung on Healing a Sick Society

Academy of Ideas · 3 min read

The central claim is that societies don’t become freer or more authoritarian primarily through laws, slogans, or top-down reforms; they change when...

Freedom vs Anointed EliteJungian PersonalityVocation and Conscience

How to F*** Up Your Life

Pursuit of Wonder · 2 min read

Life is shaped by an endless stream of choices—on average around 800 million decisions over a lifetime—but big decisions rarely come with the clarity...

Decision UncertaintyExistential AuthenticityLeap of Faith

What did you learn at Cohort 12 of Visual Thinking Workshop? Interview with Iwan Hoogendoorn

Zsolt's Visual Personal Knowledge Management · 3 min read

Cohort 12 participant Iwan Hoogendoorn built a tightly integrated workflow in Obsidian and Excalidraw to turn dense reading—especially “The Lessons...

Visual ThinkingObsidian WorkflowExcalidraw Diagrams