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The Cynodictis Project is either A.] an ingenious plot to 1.) corner the world market on organometalic compounds and semi-precious elements then 2.) threaten civilization with a crippling shortage of manganese and tungsten or B.] it's something about dogs. "Hey, civilization! You want your manganese? You come to me!"
But if it's really about dogs, why does it have that sinister name?
"Ibn Khaldûn, the immortal Tunisian historian, says events often contradict the universal idea to which one would like them to conform, that analogies are inexact, and that experience is deceptive."
The great A.J. Liebling once quoted the fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn, author of The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History in a collection of essays on boxing (above).
Khaldûn expresses the fundamental tentativeness of all knowledge, the deep skepticism achieved by Arab historians and gin-scented journalists alike.The Muqaddimah is a monumental work of social history and analysis. Regimes come and go, Khaldûn wrote, based on their ability to appeal to 'group feeling' - a sort of extended tribalism, based on social class, a political party, religion or a major advertising campaign.
The Muqaddimah is a narrative encyclopedia that explores the foundations of several fields of knowledge including economics (and the pivotal role of specilized crafts in society), sociology, ethnography and the philosophy of history. It's worth reading today 700 hundred years after it was written.
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The Cynodictis Project.
This is where we'll dicuss manganese and tungsten in your dog's daily life. Learn about the secret mental judgements that dog's are constantly making on their owners. Is that a look of pity? Does your dog think you're a twit? Find out now!
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