A complete citizen

Citizen & privileges

“the children of kings are generally instructed in

  riding and warlike exercises; and thus Euripides says:

“… No showy arts Be mine, but teach me what the state requires.”

No showy arts

Private versus public life

Labor of your hands

Become a man of consequence

Calm. Stoic calm.

Less information or just enough information ?

Man’s duty is towards himself

Just keep waiting
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“The domestic employments of each of them are also different; it is the
man’s business to acquire subsistence, the woman’s to take care of it”

Excerpt From
Politics: A Treatise on Government
Aristotle

Mans duty to acquire , woman’s job to take care of it

Neither slaves nor free men

Boys are different from men

They are citizens though imperfect ones 

The mechanics were either slaves or foreigners

The best regulated states will not allow mechanics to be a citizen 

Only upgrade it once it actually breaks? 

Mechanics and hired servants, 

Virtue and dignity

Virtue — cannot achieve it as a mechanic or a hired servant

Good man , excellent citizen

Man is an animal naturally formed for society ***

Domestic government

Physic – , gym gymnastic exercises 
Wrong principles

City: community of Free men

Supreme Power

Democracy is for only the poor

The sake of being as happy and independent as possible

Public entertainment to promote friendship

The Love of sociability is friendship itself 

Perfect independent life

For the sake of living well and happily

Music and poetry

Acquire honors

Architect to the mason

Bliss ,, nirvana

To me the sun is Nirvana?

The philosophy of the politician

The greatest landed property

Noble birth — fountain of virtue

Justice is a virtue

Stronger richer and better

Lions versus the hares

Better to show off your gym in your body then your car? Assuming you’re not taking steroids

virtuous showing off

we all seem to have a small inferiority bias… What if it were virtuous to have a superiority bias? 

For example, the only reason why you would ever be annoyed by seeing other people‘s cars which are more impressive than yours, or seeing their homes which seem more superior to yours, or lifestyle and clothes etc.… Is because in fact you feel some sort of inferiority ?

superior body superior kid

The funny thing is now i’m sure anybody who is childless, they’re kind of invisible or don’t exist to me anymore. Before I had a kid, I felt that somehow… All these other guys were trying to size me up or whatever, but now that I have a son, they’re kind of invisible or inconsequensial to me. They have no consequences.

the ethics of comparing your kids with other kids

No eagle would ever brag that their offspring is superior to a hare. In a similar vein, I think also… To compare contrast or to brag or to reign some sort of superiority is to equivalize. 

So if you simply do believe that you and your kids and your family is a different breed, don’t compare contrast, or rink. You’re like in a different category.

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Superior valor

Don’t restrain or banish those who are too great

Private utility, public good

Elected tyranny

Heroic times 


Hereditary generalship

Judge particulars 

Let two together go

Philosopher warrior king

King Leonidas

Aggression, modern-day aggression?

Warrior King

The politics of bitcoin

Kingly power 

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Start to measure things in bitcoins, not USD 

What that then means is kind of ignore the US dollar price of bitcoin, but rather the more intelligent strategy is to figure out how to accumulate and acquire more bitcoins? 

Submit

Administered by the best Men

Excel in virtue 

Meat PR

Artificer

The dignity in which they live

Losers versus winners 

Your own personal oasis

Macro vs micro decisions

Disregard or don’t worry too much about the micro , focus on the macro.

Think and consider your whole family ecosystem