Day: September 18, 2018, 11:30 AM

Ember

Chill Regular-ass Post

I was reading this today, and made me think about that the stupidest fucking thing many academics do — and I don’t know why this happens — is that they believe if you can’t draw clear boundaries around something and locate it specifically, it doesn’t exist.

This is not the way the world works! A species is a human construction. So is a generation. Or even a star, or a galaxy. These things are not in the world; they are in our minds.

I don’t know what to call this tendency as it’s not quite reductionism. It’s a very strange mindset since when you examine it closely enough, what completely discrete phenomenon even exists in this universe? Above the quantum level, zero. This universe is one of continuous gradations, of unclear boundaries. This ridiculous fantasy that something must have an extremely clear border to be able to discuss it is something so inane and witless that I don’t know how anyone can believe this, much less “educated” people.

Roam the Funway

Chill Uncategorized

I shouldn’t complain so much about the harm and uselessness of smartphones. In the meta sense, they are to my advantage.

They make people both more anxious and stupider, more prone to be less attentive in public, less able to exercise self-control, and also less able to use a real working tool — a full computer.

So, in other words, it makes the smartphone-addicted far less competitive in the job market and their disadvantages accrue to me as advantages as I am not and never will be wedded to my smartphone, nor beset by FOMO or anxiety from its various beeps, exhortations and cries for attention.

I don’t even know where my phone is right now, and that is not uncommon. If I didn’t need it for work, I’d throw it away.