No. 3: 2023.08.15

Aristotle/Borges/Dewey/Freud/Hobbes/Locke/Marx/Socrates/Plato/Rousseau

Here's some things people have been writing:

Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Marx, and Dewey would be sad to sees that both the U.S and Chinese states are squashing the individual. Upheaval

Socrates thought that writing would discourage memory, and writing is good. Likewise seasoned command line users disdain graphical interfaces. Jesse Duffield

Freud was keen for 1-on-1 psychotherapy. Mid-century folks viewed group therapy as the next chapter, but after a spike in popularity it still hasn’t stuck. Aeon

Borges was swayed by Piranesi’s 18th century etchings of fantastical prisons. He came to know them through de Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. MIT Press Reader

Plato liked aristocracy, at least in theory. Rousseau thought democracy was best. A 7m video breaks it down. Aeon