JA Westenberg3d ago

Four hundred years ago, the people Andreessen imagines were blissfully unselfconscious were reading Augustine and Montaigne and arguing about Stoic philosophy. They were writing diaries and letters that examined their own motives with considerable care. They were not, in fact, just moving forward without asking where they were going.

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Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection

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@Daojoan

wait i thought the whole reason we were taught Hamlet in high school is that the English modestly take credit for one of them (William Shakespeare) having invented introspection... & there was some debate about whether it sapped the will

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be that as it may, i'm pretty sure introspection existed from at least the cave dwelling days, after all, those folks had the whole winter to do nothing but gaze into the fire, hibernate, & introspect...

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