wall street sannyas and service rendered (role of the guru, the other is “not” (heathen activity), solution to evil, charlie munger, ray dalio (debt and credit cycles, on the necessity of cycles), efficient markets, institutional and civilizational decline, zimbardo et al, on the possibility ofd true emancipation for humanity)
“The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.” ― Gustave Le Bon, Psychologie des Foules [The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind] (1895)
“Their philosophical daring remains unequalled to this day; indeed, one has to admit that, 2,000 years ago, India had begun pondering on the great issues which have been raised in the West only in within the last century, and that, in doing so, it did not shrink from the most drastic solution.” ― Gustave Le Bon, The World of Indian Civlization Tudor Publishing Company New York 1974
the other in y words: (1)not, (2)you, (3)again, (4)forever