it’s 10 o’clock

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fresh spinach
fresh parsley
roma tomatoes
crush and peel the garlic
some white wine or better yet vermouth
a bunch of ancho chili powder
plenty of butter
some kind of big fat fancy whole wheat pasta
worthwhile locatelli or parmesan cheese

cook it right, i’m too tired to tell you how

To the standard list of problems, add the
plight of the newspapers, organs so crucial to the operating system of
democracy that they may fairly be said to be as eyes are to the brain.

– somebody has been reading neal stephenson

Q: Suppose you have to get up and go to work now. How would you do?

A: I don’t think I’d even care.

Q: Well, suppose the place were on fire?

A: It would seem funny.

Alan Charles Kors

George H. Walker Endowed Term Professor of History

• First, tribes: tough life.
• The defaults beyond the intimate tribe were violence, aversion to difference, and slavery. Superstition: everywhere.
• Culture overcomes them partially.
• Rainfall agriculture, which allows loners.
• Irrigation agriculture, which favors community.
• Division of labor plus exchange in trade bring mutual cooperation, even outside the tribe.
• The impulse is always there, though: “Kill or enslave the outsider.”
• Gradual science from Athens’ compact with reason.
• Division
  of labor, trade, the mastery of knowledge, plus time brought surplus,
  sometimes a peaceful extended order and, rules diversely evolved and,
  the cooperation of strangers - always warring against the fierce
  defaults of tribalism, violence, and ignorance.
• No one who teaches you knows what will happen.