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Live Not by Lies: Involvement Increases Investment

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Live Not by Lies: Involvement Increases Investment

Live Not by Lies: Involvement Increases Investment

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 5 minutesIt has been said that politics is a conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. If you do not think this is true, read about the October Revolution of 1917, where Lenin and the Bolsheviks proved that a dedicated minority can gain absolute power over a disorganized, leaderless, indifferent majority.

Truth, Morality, and Anti-Realism (AKA: Somethin’ ain’t right with that boy, I’ll tell you hwat!”)

Truth, Morality, and Anti-Realism (AKA: Somethin’ ain’t right with that boy, I’ll tell you hwat!”)

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutesTruth and morality tend to be tied together; without truth, there tends to be no morality, at least so far as anyone can elucidate as being objectively codifiable. One benefit of backpacking, at least for me, is that I can listen to a variety of bright folks (well, Dr. Jordan Peterson would probably contend that I’m listening to a variety of people with PhDs, among whom some are bright) talking…

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