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Mill

Mill's crucial refinement is that pleasure divides into short-term pleasure and long-term happiness, so what feels good now is not necessarily good for life.

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Political-philosophy interpretation stated on 2025-05-08

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Mill's crucial refinement is that pleasure divides into short-term pleasure and long-term happiness, so what feels good now is not necessarily good for life.

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The Island That Had To Innovate

2025-05-08, day precision · Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia!

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"Pleasure isn't like, okay, whatever makes me happy. Because there are different types of pleasure. There's short -term pleasure and there's long -term pleasure,..."

The Final Days of the U.S. Empire

2026-04-21, day precision · The Final Days Of The U.S. Empire! – Full Interview w/ Professor Jiang

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"...all the time. Um, but you know, in 1950s, C. Wright Mills wrote a book called the power elite, and he described the structure..."

Collapse Is Engineered

2026-03-31, day precision · Game Theory #17: The Great Reset

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"...good okay and this is from bentham and then john stewart mills will make some we'll make some adjustments to it okay but this..."

The Apocalypse Needs A Headquarters

2025-12-18, day precision · Secret History #END: Pax Judaica

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"...discussed in the last class about John Locke, David Hume, Bentham, Mill, Marx, Darwin, okay? These were all thinkers sponsored by Britain. To propose...."

Modernity Needs A Scapegoat

2025-12-16, day precision · Secret History #27: Empire of Evil

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"...idea of the world. All right. So this is John Stuart Mill and this is Jeremy Bantham. Okay. And not only that, but once..."

Modernity Needs A Scapegoat

2025-12-16, day precision · Secret History #27: Empire of Evil

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"...is emphasizing the limitations of British philosophy, right? Law, Hume, Bantham, Mill, they're all limited. And so what the British need is for the..."

The Island That Had To Innovate

2025-05-08, day precision · Civilization #50: Rule, Britannia!

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"...this theory of utilitarianism, so along comes his disciple, John Stuart Mill. And John Stuart Mill is considered the most significant political philosopher of..."

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