Link to YouTube Video The Exaltation of Inanna. Nin me Ε‘ara in Sumerian. Sometimes translated: Lady of all the divine powers. Sometimes: Queen of all the me. Sometimes simply: The Exaltation. 153 lines. Written around 2300 BCE. Found in multiple copies across Mesopotamian archaeological sites,…
Link to YouTube Video Plato and Aristotle opposed each other for 2,400 years. They built two of the most complete philosophical systems in Western history. They disagreed on almost everything fundamental: the nature of reality, the direction of truth, where knowledge lives, what the world…
Link to YouTube We know the role that Enheduanna was given. She was a political appointment. Her father’s tool. High Priestess of Nanna at Ur, a role designed to consolidate the empire, not develop a person. We know what the role required. Presence. Ritual performance.…
Link to YouTube Video There is a particular kind of education that is so thorough, so rigorous, so complete in its ambition, that it accidentally produces the very thing it was designed to prevent. It gives you every tool. Every method. Every tradition of inquiry…
Link to YouTube Video We know the role that Enheduanna was given. She was a political appointment. Her father’s tool. High Priestess of Nanna at Ur, a role designed to consolidate the empire, not develop a person. We know what the role required. Presence. Ritual…
YouTube Link His name appears in English as Raymond Lully or Raymond Lull. The man’s actual name was Ramon Llull. Catalan. Pronounced closer to “yool” than “lull.” That gap between the anglicized name and the real one is your first clue about who he was:…
YouTube Video Link Enheduanna was Akkadian. Her father’s people. The conquerors. Semitic language. Northern Mesopotamia. Sumerian was not her language. It was the language of the people her father had conquered. A language so different from Akkadian that linguists today classify them in entirely separate…
Link to YouTube Video There is a question underneath every system question. Why does anything hold together at all? Donella Meadows spent her career answering the question of how systems work. Gregory Bateson spent his answering the question above with something closer to philosophy than…
Link to YouTube Video 2,300 BCE. Mesopotamia. To understand who Enheduanna was, you first have to understand who her father was. And what he built. And the problem that building it created. Because Enheduanna doesn’t exist without Sargon. The role she was placed in, High…
Link to YouTube Video There is a specific kind of loneliness that comes not from being alone, but from knowing something that the world around you has no container for. This is not a secret or a belief. It is a knowing. And once you…