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@monarchist @freepatriot At one level, it is entirely true. We are biological creatures, so everything is ultimately determined by our DNA, but in terms of _potential_. It's like the hard limit.

Within that, we have mental techniques, study techniques, mnemonics, IT, technology etc. that allow us to reach more and more of that potential, and depending on the topic, technology can actually expand on our biological hard limits, for instance, when it comes to how much information we can store.

Well, if we're reduced to one-liners: "Liberty - not the daughter but the mother of order"

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/11/what-happened-to-our-moral-compass/

@monarchist @freepatriot Exactly. That's the thing, if you look at the actions/consequences, it quicky becomes meaningless.

@monarchist @freepatriot Nietzsche is such a gold mine. To me, he always seems to be almost impossibly ahead of his time. For some strange reason, it also seem to me that he is the philosopher that is the least understood, and most often interpreted in the least charitable (or ridiculous) way. =/

I wonder if there are any more modern philosophers of a similar calibre?

That question is tricky, since it seems like history is required to sort the wheat from the chaff.

Wittgenstein is another

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHJ4PDHF

Not according to Jefferson.

Those two words are mutually exclusive 😜

@freepatriot Bitch eat bitch world.

But it is not a Democratic Republic...

@h4890 @freepatriot

Probably a bell curve like anything else, from schizoid to genius.

I also disagree on biological programming. Regular critters can learn too.

The problem is that our ability to learn is biologically determined...

@h4890 @freepatriot

I do not think the phrase is meant as "life is (only) suffering" but more as "life necessarily involves suffering."