If you are wondering how one of the best players in the world can blunder with 27.c5?? in #CarlsenNepo it is worth remembering that Magnus did this to him.
The Strong weaken the weaker.
It happens all the time.
I wrote about it in The Moves that Matter:
"The strong weaken the weaker because strength is ultimately a function of the will, and in a context where there is no escape, one side's will ultimately yields to the other..." #CarlsenNepo
"The strength of really strong players lies precisely in their ability to make other strong players play below their strength." - The Moves that Matter p74 #CarlsenNepo
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“Metamodernism is a feeling, and all that constitutes the feeling and flows from it. When we consider the mystery of consciousness and the human drama playing out on this charming anomaly of a planet, feelings are far from trivial – they have cosmological significance…
…The metamodern feeling co-arises through the perception of our context writ large; it is aesthetic in nature, epistemic in function, historical in character, and it serves to call into question the purpose of the world as we find it, and the meaning of life as we know it.”
.@Perspecteeva just posted 11 great videos from The Realisation Festival in early July.
Only 30 people attended due to COVID restrictions, so we are all the more grateful for the excellent work of @saintgiles and Charlie Moore and Alex Townley.
First, an overview of the Festival, and promissory note for future years where it will be larger.
The philosophical background concerns Perspectiva & St Giles House's shared connection to #Bildung.
We call it "A Festival of Unlearning and Reimagining".
Second, Perspectiva did our inaugural public antidebate at the festival. This process is still in development, and seeks a hybrid form of dialogue and debate.
The question we alighted on and examined was:
"Is Masculinity the Problem?"
Just back from a private dinner on climate finance. It was Chatham House Rules so I can’t say who was there or what they said, but I can say there was a lot of power and influence in the room. I was there as maverick philosopher to offer the occasional lateral perspective.
I was also there because a few years ago I wrote this report:
Money Talks: Divest Invest and the battle for climate realism. thersa.org/discover/publi…
The main thing I felt tonight is the same thing I have felt at similar meetings before. Of all climate ‘levers’ the finance lever is biggest. And yet the financial world is parochial, and mostly unaware of its role as social actors who send important political signals.