Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Wanting to appear wise, thoughtful, and possessed of virtuous character paradoxically seems to lead people straight into a specific attractor of unwise, thoughtless, vices. 🤔 I’m not perverse enough to prefer open degeneracy instead, but the posture I trust most is a sort of battered, derelict, unsteady virtue
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Ivy
@ivy
really like this framing, especially the battered part
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