"I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of , elegance, and courage; against modernity’s phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism."
Philistinism

January 1, 1970

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