okay im going very rogue and very inarticulate

its performative

whats your name?

isaac

god being the centre magnet

ahnaf is it worth reading all those books

plato

what do you think my name is

plato

which magnetises chains of pins

no i haven't really read anything

what do you mean

was it worth it

i don't really want to be associated with that one for some reason

i really havent

like first name

abrar?

not their contents

you cannot feed someone truth

its good

isaac newton

this is possible in mazelike research sprints on the internet

there is a distinction between western-modern pedagogical systems that's like text-based as in a legal method but there is an idea of "pathshala" or "guru shissho"/ "porompora" i mean how masters relayed knowledge to the student by (oral) transmission often by memorising books. so what was taught was always interactive. knowledge was interactive, you spoke with people rather than read texts.

as in

my watchlater reached its limit years ago and now i have to create a playlist for each new topic im interested in but it is incredibly hard to create the taxonomy of knowledge because everything seems to be everything else because at the end it is what you get from it that matters not what is given

the only things i have read are just excerpts and 1 dialogue by plato fully and mcluhan's medium is the massage but it cannot be considered a book

⚠️ Live Document Forever ⚠️

ahnaf is it worth reading all those books

so an active mazelike process