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We've been spinning our wheels for a century! On the other hand, compare Wilamowitz' widely accepted but, perhaps, feeble, defense of Pericles' shocking assertion that "we Athenians have left imperishable memorials of good and bad things," with Nietzsche's terrifying 1/
celebration of Athens as "carnivore, the roaming blond beast splendidly craving loot and triumph...." Which is more real?
Always better in the original:
Das Raubtier, die prachtvolle nach Beute und Sieg lüstern schweifende blonde Bestie
μνημεῖα κακῶν τε καὶ ἀγαθῶν 2/
ἀίδια ξυγκατοικίσαντες.

Wilamowitz' historical justification of Pericles, I think, would fail to convince anyone not socialized to assume he always wore a halo. 3/
NB: Wilamowitz signed on the notorious "German intellectuals'" defense of slaughter in neutral Belgium. Max Weber, I'm glad to say, did not. The Ungern-Sternbergs have written forcefully and well on this. Talk about Raubtier!

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Opened this up and found it hard to put down. Packed with info well-framed for non-specialists about the roles of Hastings, Macaulay, and other figures in setting the standards of education in India, with refs, useful in other fields like classics, to discussion of 1/
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Who among us has been to Unye, which seems paradisal, Seinfeldian...

Chasing Anchovies on Turkey’s Black Sea Coast
By ROBYN ECKHARDTDEC. 14, 2012
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“SO you’re here for anchovies,” said the bartender at Sehrazade, a shadowy spot in Unye, Turkey, a smile playing at 1/
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With his boxer’s nose and stern mien, the beefy man looked more gangster than barkeep. But when I told him why I’d come to this small town on Turkey’s Black Sea coast, he showed a softer side. He nodded slowly and reached into his pocket for a phone.2/
Twenty minutes later a uniformed schoolboy burst into the bar (397A Hukumet Caddesi) with an aluminum baking pan. My new friend took the pan and placed it before me, removing its lid with a flourish and releasing a plume of steam. Inside was a little over a pound of lightly 3/
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Oddly or predictably, this coincides with a just-out pub by 2 from Warwick on the USA 2016 election, one of many possible angles. The build on a basic Kahnemann and Tversky distinction from 1981: we often opt for risk aversion in choices involving gains and risk seeking 1/
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Homolar & Scholz apply this aperçu to the 2016 American election but it works equally well for Brexit:

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