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The Fermi Paradox is sometimes known as the Great Silence. The universe ought to be a cacophony of voices, but instead it is disconcertingly quiet.
When you’re a child the world forbears you, allows you your flights of imagination, your feelings of specialness. But sooner or later the privileges are withdrawn, and all you’re left with is a stunned bitterness at the realisation that you’re just the same as everybody else.
Only Forward
Michael Marshall Smith
I avoided the personal because my thoughts on that front are too navel-gazing and too negative. I’ve never felt less “sharp” as a philosopher, and the deficit prompts a measure of shame. I tell myself it’s a function of being too caught up in administrative work, and that the greater part of being “sharp” in philosophy, as in most things, is putting in the time. This is the fabled “growth mindset,” a therapy for “imposter syndrome.” When someone is “effortlessly brilliant,” their brilliance is, in almost every case, the visible 1% of an iceberg of hard work.
Why Bother?
Kieran Setiya
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