Review and Quotes from Talking to My Daughter by Yanis Varoufakis

Quotes from Yanis Varoufakis’ Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism

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Quotes from Yanis Varoufakis’ Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism:

Every employer’s dream, after all, is not a society in which no one needs work, profit is meaningless and each enjoys equally a commonwealth serviced by machines designed and directed by other machines. Their dream is having replaced all their workers with androids but no one else having done the same, allowing them to accumulate the profit and power unavailable to their competitors…

– Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism

Debt, as Doctor Faustus shows us, is to market societies what hell is to Christianity: unpleasant yet indispensable.

– Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism

The worst slavery is that of heavily indoctrinated happy morons who adore their chains and cannot wait to thank their masters for the joy of their subservience.

– Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quotes from Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Quotes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

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Here are five quotes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality:

It is by the activity of our passions, that our reason improves: we covet knowledge merely because we covet enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a man exempt from fears and desires should take the trouble to reason.

– Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, “This is mine,” and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.

– Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

With the poet, it is gold and silver, but with the philosopher it is iron and corn, which have civilized men, and ruined mankind.

– Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

I dare almost affirm that a state of reflection is a state against nature, and that the man who meditates is a depraved animal.

– Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

There is scarce any inequality among men in a state of nature, all that which we now behold owes its force and its growth to the development of our faculties and the improvement of our understanding, and at last becomes permanent and lawful by the establishment of property and laws.

– Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Review of the Lebanese Wine called Musar Jeune Rouge

Lebanese Wines: Chateau Musar Jeune Red 2020

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Name: Chateau Musar Jeune Red 2020
Type: Red Wine
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cinsault, Syrah
Year: 2020
Country: Lebanon
Region: Bekaa Valley
Date Consumed: May 4, 2025

If you’ve never tried a Lebanese wine before and you make the Chateau Musar Jeune your first, I’d consider it a good start.

Here we have a full-bodied blend with strong tannins and notes of black fruits, cassis, olive oil, and spices. It’s a wine with a strong personality. Every sip is as assertive as the one preceding it, almost as if one is pushed to turn his sips into swigs. And then, by the time the second glass is emptied, one can taste in every swig the promise that the next one will be richer, fuller, and much more satisfying.

A warning, then: When one bottle is uncorked, many bottles may follow. So, when you open a Chateau Musar Jeune, make sure that you have a second one on the bench… just in case.