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avevale_intelligencer) wrote2011-06-08 08:57 pm
avevale_intelligencer) wrote2011-06-08 08:57 pm
The things we take as truth
Comments to my post about the Wall Street Journal article have been unanimous on one point; the world today is no darker or grimmer than it ever has been. That it seems that way is simply because we know more about it.
I disagree, because it seems to me that the fact that we know more about it is in itself an enabling factor. I don't see how it can fail to be so. The map is not the territory, but knowledge of the map conditions how we interact with the territory.
More on this, possibly, later; computer time is limited.
I disagree, because it seems to me that the fact that we know more about it is in itself an enabling factor. I don't see how it can fail to be so. The map is not the territory, but knowledge of the map conditions how we interact with the territory.
More on this, possibly, later; computer time is limited.