I was listening to that part where he says no one reads primary sources, only secondary sources, because primary sources are merely text, whereas secondary sources are “knowledge”

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The river would flood in the spring, and large carp would get caught in pools shrinking in the baked evaporating heat. We would shoot them with BB guns, spear them with sharpened sticks, try to bash them still with rocks tossed down from overhead. Repositories of unthinking feral movement, bloodletting action for no purpose other than avoiding being rooted in passive resignation with clean hands and clammy chastity.

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Also: The moral arc of the universe tends towards more and more power getting ceded to corporate HR departments