Sure, the closing of the Strait of Hormuz is a great big deal, and it resulted directly from US bellicosity, hubris, and incompetence. But we haven't yet seen even a fraction of the change avalanche that's coming.

Baldur Bjarnason reflects on the paradigm-changing impact of the US's colossal self own:

"The closing of the Hormuz strait is a bigger event than portrayed by most mainstream media.

Not only did the US fail to beat a much smaller nation – one that has been operating under crippling economic sanctions for years and plagued with internal turmoil – into submission, they effectively sabotaged the world market, destroyed all of their alliances in Asia, and destabilised the petrodollar bargain all at once."
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old-world-of-tech-is-dying/
#Technology #StraitOfHormuz #USPolitics #Hubris #Nemesis

The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

¡Feliz #ViernesDeMitologíaGriega !

Como el Molusco sigue enfadado porque Helena de Esparta es negra, podría rescatar el hilo que le dediqué a ella, pero hoy voy a hablar de otro mito muy conocido y que nos habla de hubris y de la censura al artista: #Aracne.

La historia de este mito es curiosa, porque no se conservan fuentes griegas y la única que tenemos que relata el mito completo es #Ovidio en #LasMetamorfosis . Lo que sí tenemos es a otros autores hacer referencia al mito griego, pero sin desglosarlo. Por ejemplo, Virgilio, anterior a Ovidio, ya hablaba de "la araña, que odia a #Minerva".

¿Qué nos cuenta Ovidio de Aracne?

Esta era una habilidosa tejedora de Lidia que desafió a Atenea (la Minerva romana) a un concurso de tejer un tapiz. Recordemos que Atenea es la diosa de la sabiduría, la estrategia militar y las artes plásticas.

Vamos, puro #hubris que, quienes seguís este hilo, muy bien no sale.

El tema del tapiz era los dioses. Atenea los retrató en sus tronos, mientras que Aracne los retrató como animales acosando a muchachas normales, lo cual le sentó a Minerva como el culo. Atenea enfureció y persiguió a la muchacha, quien, desesperada, se ahorcó en un árbol. La diosa se compadeció de la joven y la transformó en una araña (en griego, arakhnês).

Como ya sabemos, el hubris es el desprecio a los dioses, considerado una falta muy grave para los griegos, porque si vas en contra del cosmos que compone el mundo, te comes consecuencias. Bajo una mirada helénica, este mito nos advierte del hubris y las limitaciones humanas.

Pero Ovidio quería contar otra cosa.

#mitologíagriega #mitologíaromana #culturagrecorromana #culturagriegaantigua

@KathyLK #Hubris will always get in the way of reality until it is too late. youtu.be/JRnoi3repjo What Satellite Images Reveal About Iran's Attacks on US Bases

The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris.
-- Larry Wall (Perl "Camel" Book)

#Wisdom #Quotes #LarryWall #Laziness #Impatience #Hubris #Perl #Programming

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A quotation from Horace

To know all things is not permitted.
 
[Nec scire fas est omnia.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Odes [Carmina], Book 4, # 4, l. 22 (4.4.22) (23 BC)

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1952/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #comprehension #divinelaw #hubris #humannature #ignorance #information #knowing #knowledge #limitation #meme #prohibition

https://theconversation.com/a-new-exhibition-explores-empire-love-and-loss-through-paintings-of-flowers-from-1900-281787. "Each #artist has chosen their particular #flowers to #paint, exerting #control over #nature showing a particular fascination, atmosphere, idea that they want to impart though this choice." Why exactly would they want to "exert control over nature"? What is it about #humans, not just #artists, that must "exert control over nature"? This #hubris WILL be punished. We must learn to show its opposite before #Gaia, sophrosunē (humility).
A new exhibition explores empire, love and loss through paintings of flowers from 1900

The curators of this new exhibition at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge have achieved a complex yet complementary arrangement.

The Conversation
How long can the giant keep its golden goose; can ‘big donors’ continue the steal in plain sight and not pay for the feedback from more war, terror, assassinations, genocide, purges, censorship, and inflation as if reducible to a zeta function? No Emperor and King can whitewash the failure of their ecocide programme! No complex conglomerate or any simulation greater than 1, transcends the dialectic principle! #TheBigDonorLie #hubris #CaptiveMarkets #AbsoluteBeing #AbsoluteIdea #philosophy https://simplywall.st/markets/gb
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