Alexa O'Brien Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Dante’s Inferno is real. https://t.co/nB0rS7VB9N

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Great little interview with Bessel van der Kolk, author of 'The Body Keeps the Score', on trauma and the political community (victims of racism, sexual violence, veterans of war, etc.) https://youtu.be/BJfmfkDQb14

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2010 called, and wanted its old idea smashed. @elonmusk sometimes things are not what they appear at first, second, or third glance (ie soda straw, fun house mirrors)— that said— appearance, persuasion v. reality. ((c) Plato’s Gorgias) https://t.co/bAQt69Ajip

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Who else has TBS and The Shadowbrokers on their mind every time there is an announcement by Anonymous of a leak re: Russia?

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@NatlSecCnslrs @jguipre It’s a joke riffing on Oeconomicus by Xenophon— Socratic dialogue ostensibly about household management/agriculture, but really about ruling, war/peace, and philosophy— is the philosopher the best farmer, understand true nature and conditions— way to grow and educate souls

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Decentralization *by itself,* one could argue, is what gives rise to factionalism and war (in the extreme) (and not a solution *in itself* to deeper political questions)-- take, for e.g. Medici Italy, the subject of Machiavelli's The Prince.

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A street photographer took this of my Mom (and kids, that’s me she is holding) and stuck in a book about old Seattle. (at Pike Place Market) https://t.co/9J2eJUjVnN

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This new book “Espionage” by @KristieMacrakis looks amazing. https://t.co/wXGw3r4XIF

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I'll show my hand: The aim of a philosophic education about politics (in the fundamental sense of that word as regard to "human matters about the most important things," for Plato’s Socrates) was to temper the forces in the souls of citizens, esp.those, who rule or have power.

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Want to see this... MILAN KUNDERA: From the Joke to Insignificance https://t.co/WuHexEvRdJ