"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

22 April 2021

Precisely.


You can define a free person precisely as someone whose fate is not centrally or directly dependent on peer assessment.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, from Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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