“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.” — Nassim Taleb

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We live in modernity. It’s the period when humans work soulless 9-5 jobs , taint their beautiful bodies with garbage food and sedentary lifestyles, consume parasitic news and entertainment, produce pseudo-science as knowledge and walk around ugly architecture.

Modernity is anti-human and is a blip in our existence. Human history is rich and inspiring. In this newsletter, I’m going to explore who we were in essays. The goal is to inspire us with who we are. Please join me in this exploration.

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