Join 📚 J'S Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what J's read, .
Niles Eldredge is the cofounder (with Stephen Jay Gould) of the theory of punctuated, stepwise evolution.
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
And so the land is heavily taxed to subsidize an ‘affluence’ that consists, in reality, of health and goods stolen from the unborn.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
The advent of writing (both a cause and a consequence of greater socio-political complexity) was rocket fuel for this new mode of memetic evolution as it dramatically enhanced the “critical self-distancing element of disembedded reflection”.
The Great Disembedding
Roger’s Bacon
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise