Why are some people (like many American men) obsessed with gadgets? Perhaps because tools connote ability, and ability connotes status. This goes way, way back. Tens or hundreds of thousands of years. Your value to society is measured by your ability to get things done. Your are what you can do. It’s the mandate . . . → Read More: Gadget obsession
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If what you are doing must be done, and must be done by you, then do not hesitate. Do it perfectly. But if you have not yet decided what to do, then by all means stop to reflect and choose wisely. Do not waste perfection on that which is not worth doing at all. Two thoughts for today: (1) This one pretty much straight from Wittgenstein. Adjectives like “this,” “that,” and “other” have obvious practical utility and one can easily imagine their arising in the natural circumstances surrounding linguistic evolution. When the nouns they describe are commonplace — this rock, that apple — we have few problems. So far, . . . → Read More: This and that Education is too important to be taken seriously. Suppose there were a private militia that went around killing a certain number of people each year. The militia employs the same number of people, at the same salaries, as the tobacco industry. The group provides absolutely no benefits to society other than employment. Now suppose someone presses for the dissolution (at the very least) . . . → Read More: Smoking |
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