Mitch Horowitz & Richard Smoley on Archons of the Mind and Materiality
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The Crazy Wife and the Attic of Western Thought
The most famous and revolutionary philosophic upheaval took place in the 18th century when David Hume said, well, you know, I don't see causation as a quality inherent in anything. You could say that causation itself is one of the archons. We're just a bunch of shnooks sitting around holding an archons conference. This is what it means to be intellectually successful when the more intellectually lose it culturally.
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