[W]hy do we love myth, religion, literature, philosophy, so dearly and pursue history, science, and the various grammars (logics) of calculation with such reluctance? The method of communication is experiential in the first and not so in the second. Our mythology promises opportunities to free ride. The truth does not.
Form: Aphorism
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Wishful Thinkers as Hosts for Deceit
[W]ishful thinkers all, we are easy prey for the literature of deceit whose plots promise free riding in a universe whose red queen we struggle to race. We long for suggestion. We long for entertainment. We long for respite that our Myths, Religion, Literature and philosophy provide for us. But we must not confuse fantasy with reality. When the curtains close, and the house lights rise, nature still awaits us.
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Wishful Thinkers as Hosts for Deceit
[W]ishful thinkers all, we are easy prey for the literature of deceit whose plots promise free riding in a universe whose red queen we struggle to race. We long for suggestion. We long for entertainment. We long for respite that our Myths, Religion, Literature and philosophy provide for us. But we must not confuse fantasy with reality. When the curtains close, and the house lights rise, nature still awaits us.
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GREENFIELD SELF GRATIFICATION AND MAINTENANCE AS PUBLIC SERVICE Developers want
GREENFIELD SELF GRATIFICATION AND MAINTENANCE AS PUBLIC SERVICE
Developers want greenfields.
Architects want greenfields.
Politicians want greenfields
Bureaucrats want greenfields.
Everyone wants a greenfield.
What we want from them is Maintenance.
Public Servants are maintenance workers.
Civic Society Groups are welcome to produce change.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-24 05:35:00 UTC
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URBAN PLANNING It’s not complicated. Build walls Build transportation. Build sac
URBAN PLANNING
It’s not complicated.
Build walls
Build transportation.
Build sacred parks and monuments.
That’s the end of it.
Find something else to congratulate yourself for.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-24 05:16:00 UTC
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In the future, if you cannot program, meaning, that if you cannot employ strict
In the future, if you cannot program, meaning, that if you cannot employ strict existential constructions, then you will be treated the same way we treat people who speak in religious metaphor today.
Perhaps that will be the next line of demarcation: those with the mental ability to construct verbal proofs as we construct mathematical or logical proofs.
This will harden the IQ barrier thats somewhere above 105.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-24 04:13:00 UTC
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Americans themselves do not understand that Jefferson’s Constitution starts the
Americans themselves do not understand that Jefferson’s Constitution starts the movement to strict construction – law as Operationalism.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-24 04:10:00 UTC
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A new Rodin works in his studio, sells nothing, and says nothing. A new Picasso
A new Rodin works in his studio, sells nothing, and says nothing.
A new Picasso works in public, sells everything, and speaks incessantly.
There is no comparison between their works.
There is much comparison between our awareness of them.
What makes the greater artist?
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-24 03:37:00 UTC
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On this one point, Locke was Wrong and Hobbes was right: as a member of a polity
On this one point, Locke was Wrong and Hobbes was right: as a member of a polity, man is reducible to a ‘mechanical’ engine fed drugs by his genes as reward and punishment for advancing their interests. And those interests are advanced through acquisition, retention and reproduction of all sorts of things.
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t enjoy the fulfillment of our genes interests. It’s the whole purpose of existence.
To make the most of it.
😉
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-24 03:30:00 UTC
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The feeling of love is our reward for insuring one another
The feeling of love is our reward for insuring one another.
Source date (UTC): 2016-03-24 03:27:00 UTC