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@screwlisp

FYI, I have finally published the actual source of my 2014 essay "Whither Original Thought" to my web site. It links to the audio from your radio show a month ago when I had read it aloud for the first time.

nhplace.com/kent/Writing/Whith

A variant on the famous sculpture by Rodin called The Thinker, but in this case the thinker is seated in a rolling office chair, staring at a computer screen, his wastebasket full of wadded up paper. Except it's a statue, so all of this is cast into carved marble.
nhplace.comWhither Original Thought by Kent M PitmanA 2014 essay, with accompanying audio, reflecting upon the cultural legitimacy of original thought.
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@sz_duras In #LTI, The Language of the Third Reich, Victor #Klemperer shows how everyday language, official #discourse, and small habits of #thought insidiously transform the perception of #reality. #Fascism, according to him, does not impose itself solely through #violence or #terror, but through the slow permeation of minds, the trivialization of #ideology in #language, and the internalization of new norms, until the #exception becomes the #rule.

How to understand things via Big Think [Shared]

True intelligence isn’t just about raw ability — it’s about the discipline to investigate things creatively and directly rather than settling for shallow explanations. In this essay, writer and entrepreneur Nabeel S. Qureshi explores how great thinkers developed their insights by testing ideas from multiple angles, refusing to fool themselves, and being unafraid to look stupid.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/05/23

#think#Thinking#thought