At home we pay respects to two remarkable men: Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), India's first prime minister post-Gandhi, and G.I. Gurdjieff (c. 1869-1949), saint of tough wisdom.
Gurdjieff said: "Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West—and then seek." That is what these unacquainted men did.
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for my Substack, I did not expect for The New York Times to notice it and write about it. I certainly did not expect it to trigger mass psychogenic illness on the dissident right.
The responses have generally been utterly hysterical and consist of people insisting our podcast was part of some elaborate, we…
in the long run, It's always cheaper to do the right thing than to do the wrong thing. Raising criminals and anarchists due to poverty, car society much more money to lock them up in prison for example. The policies the right wingers proposed will bankrupt America completely. Capitalist healthcare, the trickle down theory, no minimum wage and no social spending. If America votes for the right wingers again, I'm just going to fiddle while Rome Burns this time!