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Trying to Understand the World
Personal blog · aurelien2022.substack.compoliticsphilosophy
Trying to Understand the World is a personal blog at aurelien2022.substack.com about politics and philosophy. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
A newsletter devoted not to polemic, but to trying to make sense of today's world.
What Hacker News says?
No, I think that's a hopelessly reductive interpretation that mistakes stupidity for malice. Since arguably the 1940s the people running the United States have been consistently trading power over the domains they consider illegible and confusing for power over the domains they consider tractable and familiar, under elite job market conditions where they are incentivised to know as much as possible about abstract co…
Comment linking /p/starting-from-zero
on “'They shot all their weapons; they trashed their ships; they ran out of money'”Submitted Read “Gravity’s Rainbow” fifty years later as a story · 32 points
HN discussionI think it's because people no longer have the foundational belief that things ought to work. I read a long essay recently that agreed with my viewpoint that was written with far more literary effort than I muster for almost anything, so I'll link it: https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/the-cult-of-cant
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on “Why doesn't anything work anymore?”Submitted The Cult of Can't – You Just Can't Assume Anything Will Work as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted They Don't Care as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beyond the Appearances: The joys of an Ideal world as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Politics Of Destruction: Incorporating the destruction of politics as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We're all alone with our thoughts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Wrong Stuff as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ukraine in NATO Would Be a Disaster as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Round Two? There Is No Round Two as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If We Had More Than a Hammer as a story · 1 points
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