And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?---Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground There are certain people of whom it is difficult to say anything which will at once throw them into relief—in other words, describe them graphically in their typical characteristics. These are they who are generally known as “commonplace people,” and this class comprises, of course, the immense majority of mankind. Authors, as a rule, attempt to select and portray types rarely met with in their entirety, but these types are nevertheless more real than real life itself. For instance, when the whole essence of an ordinary person’s nature lies in his perpetual and unchangeable commonplaceness; and when in spite of all his endeavours to do something out of the common, this person ends, eventually, by remaining in his unbroken line of routine—. I think such an individual really does become a type of hi
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NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
Making Sense : The New Religion Of Anti-Racism: A Conversation with John McWhorter and more
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The Biology of Sleep & Your Unique Sleep Needs | And more from Huberman Lab
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Visiting The World's Most Dangerous Country /I Crossed The World's Deadliest Jungle: Darien Gap
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New Rule: Don't Go to College | Real Time with Bill Maher
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Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, Meaning and more | Lex Fridman
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The Death of Europe, MADNESS OF CROWDS: GENDER, RACE AND IDENTITY
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20 Great Articles and Essays by Hunter S. Thompson and more
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The causes and consequences of the Ukraine war A lecture by John J. Mearsheimer
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Hitler’s Favorite Jew: The Enigma of Otto Weininger
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Declaration of Msgr. Carlo Maria Viganò on the Russia-Ukraine Crisis
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