This is KZU, Stanford.

This is KZSU, Stanford.

Welcome to entitled opinions.

My name is Robert Harrison, and we takes the form of dancing rather than plotting.

Comrade Nietzsche,

and those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane

by those who could not hear the music.

If you're tuned into entitled opinions,

you can hear the music resounding through the underworld of KZSU,

and poured we libations unto the dead,

first mead, then sweet wine, water mixed with white flour.

Our topic today is the philosophy of inaction.

We live in a world that exalts the idea of action, especially action that would change

the world or overturn its political order.

Ancient philosophy was all about cultivating the soul.

Modern philosophy is all about taking charge of nature and transforming the status quo.

Descartes, I quote,

As soon as I had acquired some general notion of physics,

I perceived it to be possible to arrive at knowledge that is very useful in life,

and that in place of the speculative philosophy usually

taught in the schools to discover a practical philosophy by which, knowing the force and actions

of fire, water, air, stars, the heavens, and all the other bodies that surround us, we could

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