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Twee podcast tips met en over Jonathan Franzen.
https://janvandenberg.blog/jonathan-franzen-over-schrijven/ #DavidPerell #JonathanFranzen #OverSchrijven #Podcast -
You know a typewriter is being used as flimsy filler decoration when it’s sitting on a shelf and simultaneously serving as a book support.A real writer’s typewriter is free and clear so that the carriage can move its full length.
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“Education diffused knowledge and power, so Jefferson saw it as the counterweight to the natural tendency of elites to use their wealth to manipulate laws to create a corrupt and ‘unnatural aristocracy.’”
https://perell.com/essay/saving-the-liberal-arts/
#education #aristocracy #ThomasJefferson #LiberalArts #knowledge #power #literacy
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“The more pressure people feel to have an #opinion on every subject, the more #ChauffeurKnowledge there will be.
“In that state of #intellectual insecurity, people rush to judgment.
“When they do, they abandon the #philosophical mode of thinking. In turn, they become slaves to fashionable ideas and blind to unconscious #assumptions.”
#DavidPerell https://perell.com/essay/how-philosophers-think/