GreatInsights Gaetano Mosca: The Transition from the Feudal to the Bureaucratic State ":..Wealth rather than military valor comes to be the characteristic feature of the dominant class."
GreatInsights Modern politicians and becoming a man "... Mature masculinity is artificially induced through culture...."
GreatInsights Hatred and the Death-Wish in 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' 'And who are your enemies?' 'Oh, anyone with over five hundred a year.'
GreatInsights The West and the Decline of Habsburg Spain " ... pessimism and disillusion has gripped the West's own ruling elite and has permeated down to the general population... "
GreatInsights Freud and the Dynamics of the Unconscious "... the mind is an arena, a sort of tumbling-ground, for the struggles of antagonistic impulses..."
GreatInsights Love, Lies, and Fiction in the Soviet Union "... a perfect example of what fiction does - illustrate reality in a way a series of facts cannot..."
GreatInsights Ozymandias, King of Kings "... I have occasionally imagined Ozymandias fully aware of the joke..."
GreatInsights GreatInsights Twitter Archive This page is an archive of posts made from the GreatInsights Twitter account.
GreatInsights Yanis Varoufakis on Techno-Feudalism "... Capitalism has already evolved out of itself. It has been transformed into another system..."
GreatInsights Balaji Srinivasan on the Three Types of Bitcoin-States Bitcoin trifurcates the world into three kinds of states: Bitcoin atheist, Bitcoin monotheist, Bitcoin polytheist.
GreatInsights James Burnham on Machiavelli "... The desires of mankind are immense, and insatiable..."
GreatInsights Satoshi Nakamoto's insights on the nature of Bitcoin "... Proof-of-work is essentially one-CPU-one-vote..."
GreatInsights Carl Jung on the disadvantages of pioneer work "... one stumbles through unknown regions; one is led astray by analogies..."