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22 sats \ 20 replies \ @Coinsreporter OP 13h \ parent \ on: What's the biggest sign that someone is truly wise? AskSN
Absolutely.
Could you please help us identify some of the wisest people of our time?
Not to blow smoke up their butts, but @k00b and @elvismercury are amongst the wisest people I regularly encounter. In general, though, one of my favorite things about SN is that I get to interact with a bizarrely wise group of people.
Two public intellectuals (for lack of a better term) whose wisdom I've benefited from are Lew Rockwell and Jordan Peterson. I no longer follow either of them closely, but they provided some formative input to me that I often reflect on.
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Thanks.
bizarrely wise group of people.
So rightly coined. I'd say SN is a perfect station of wisest people among all online forums.
I've read about both of your other recommendations while I was studying. I accept I never read them whole heartedly because while studying literature only poetry and satire, especially from the middle ages, interested me. Bacon and Milton used to be my favourite but my taste is slowly tilting towards politics amd psychology in recent times. I guess as we age we start choosing seriousness over humour and satire.
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Have you read any Vonnegut? He's my favorite author by a mile (there is no second best) and an amazing satirist.
He slipped my mind, because I read all of his books many years ago.
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O my.... I've been a literature student and them a teacher for the same so you can assume that I've come across most (or all) of them. Kurt is definitely one big name but TBH he is still not given a place in academia here. I remember I've read some of his short stories and I've one of his books gifted to me but I've never read.
I'll bring that out tommorow.
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Cat's Cradle is my favorite work of his, but he has many great ones.
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Thanks for the recommendation. I think I've been gifted The Sirens of Titan. I'll see if I can find his other books at the local booksellers. Or, I'll have to get them online or from New Delhi when I visit there next.
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