Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free