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title: On tar pits (or, the second about)
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
-date: April 24, 2016
+date: April 29, 2016
---
Humans' understanding of the universe is terrifyingly limited. Yet from
office.
In the same category lies a tar pit uniquely attributable to man, that
-creature more widely (although more and more narrowly) known as ζῷον
-πολιτικόν. It, like the Boltzmann constant itself, is also difficult to
+creature more widely (although more and more narrowly) known as Zōon
+Politikon. It, like the Boltzmann constant itself, is also difficult to
grasp, but you might know it as that feeling which (naturally!) keeps
you from aspiring to become *more* human. It is laziness; it is
stagnation; it is tiredness, and it is ultimately death.
(Note: the previous [about page][about] was left online for historical
reasons.)
-[about]: about.html
+[about]: ./about.html