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September 7, 2009 at 2:06am
by Ian A variation on an old adage ”Writing is easy, but editing is harder.” (It will take me half an hour to prepare a one hour presentation, but a couple of days to prepare a 15 minute talk, etc … ).
A condescending thought maybe (relevant to wisdom), but it is interesting in the blogosphere, particular development blogs, for the (relatively) young and inexperienced, learning their own lessons. Nothing new under the sun, but learning beats teaching nevertheless.
When taking stock I noticed that I started this Blog 2 days after September 11th 2001.
The lines of thought here had been keeping me awake at nights long before 9/11 woke the world. Nothing in this Blog has anything directly to do with those events, but I'm not alone in being awoken to the power of the Blog by their information aftermath. Perhaps in some small way the idea that western rational arrogance, which dogs progress in so many aspects of life, can be influenced by my puny efforts to bring alternative philosophies into the mainstream. Many greater people than I have tried before and failed over three millennia, so I'm not holding my breath. If 9/11 brings anything new to this ancient debate, apart from its awful significance, it is the fact that the antidote to classical logic is sure as hell not a flight from reason.
That way lies only evil.
The words "creative destruction" can never again be used lightly.
The Lights Went Out On Broadway.
There's something solid forming in the air,
Fly On A Windshield.
Copyright Peter Gabriel 1974
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
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#1. Sam Norton 09.07.2009
I think it was George Bernard Shaw who once wrote to a friend ‘please forgive the length of this letter; I haven’t had the time to write a short one’.
#2. Ian 09.07.2009
That rings a bell Sam … as I say it’s a very old meme that new people learn every day.
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