Power x style
So much fun: I now drive a Fiat 500 Abarth. Here is the great historian of the motor car, Jay Leno, discussing the Austrian engineer Carlos Abarth and throwing around one of his cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywmtrrFf4xo
Are we still Baroque?
V&R Chapter 6 discusses one of my absolutely favourite philosophy books: Homo Ludens by Huizinga. This is a book I think largely true. He identifies the Baroque as an intensely playful period and points to the strange fact that during the Baroque the West expanded its intellectual and commercial footprint all the while its adventurers were…