Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Modern life is too complicated for baseline existence Agree or disagree?
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
Plato's Socrates, when asked why he never spends time in nature, despite loving it: "Pardon me, for a I am a lover of learning. Countryside and trees are unwilling to teach me anything, but the humans in the city are." So, a Socratic version of your question is: Does the modern city obstruct human learning itself?
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