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Starmer or Reeves boarded? The boarding is the point.
I reject that. It's the network that's more important. I always found the concept of boarding school odd but that's neither here nor there.
It is like failing fast for people. It looks cruel but in the long run is more honest.
That is not to say the networks from exclusive day schools do not help, they do.
> [Holmes] battles with drug addiction, loneliness and depression. His genius thrives in part because of these vulnerabilities, not despite them. If there was a pill for that, how many masterpieces like the Sherlock Holmes books would never be made? The products of misery have always been the devil's advocate's best arguments. If Doyle had not sympathized with Holmes' afflictions, he could not have written him. Or if…
For every tortured genius whose passion comes from pain, there's a hundred who never get started because they lack the energy to get out of bed half the time, are slowly killing themselves with alcohol and other substances, and so on. But a pill alone doesn't fix that -- hell, current research shows most of those pills do no better than a placebo -- so the mythology of the nobility of suffering will continue for some…
What bulletproof word choice. Robert Harris called Cicero the first modern politician, and that looks right.
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I reject that. It's the network that's more important. I always found the concept of boarding school odd but that's neither here nor there.
No the whole experience makes or breaks people, which is the idea. It is like failing fast for people. It looks cruel but in the long run is more honest. That is not to say the networks from exclusive day schools do not help, they do.
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> Too much psychology talk in every day life I'm curious to hear how often do you hear it in every day life outside of the internet.
It definitely does feel like every American I know "has a therapist", sometimes.
> [Holmes] battles with drug addiction, loneliness and depression. His genius thrives in part because of these vulnerabilities, not despite them. If there was a pill for that, how many masterpieces like the Sherlock Holmes books would never be made? The products of misery have always been the devil's advocate's best arguments. If Doyle had not sympathized with Holmes' afflictions, he could not have written him. Or if…
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No the whole experience makes or breaks people, which is the idea. It is like failing fast for people. It looks cruel but in the long run is more honest. That is not to say the networks from exclusive day schools do not help, they do.
It's actually a terrible idea. You're giving the people who "fail fast" no real incentives to fix themselves up and try again, and the people who "succeed" no incentives to do even better in the future. Even aside from how cruel it obviously looks, it's really a recipe for pervasive incompetence and a failed society.
Again the Brits had their biggest empire when led by this caste of people, which is why their boarding schools get so much overseas business today. To paint that as incompetence or a failed society is wishful thinking - they were the peak of what they could be.
Not from Doyle, but the film, "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution", presents Holmes as very vulnerable. Especially given the amazing cast, it is an excellent portrayal. That Holmes would encounter Sigmund Freud seemed to me at the time as a wild use of artistic license. Since then though I have come to believe that there were a lot fewer people on the Earth in general than I could really appreciate at the time, and some of…
Luminaries also were concentrated in but a few spots of the world at the time: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21859771
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I neither like the taboo nor the opposite. Too much psychology talk in every day life, everyone is traumatised and has unresolved issues etc. That may be, but I wish we would handle it all more privately...
> Too much psychology talk in every day life I'm curious to hear how often do you hear it in every day life outside of the internet.