02 OCT 2013 by ideonexus
Our Natural Tendency is to Doubt Ourselves
am enthusiastic over humanity's extraordinary and sometimes very
timely ingenuities. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are
gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes
along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that
the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top.
I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting
yesterday's fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for
solving a given proble...And leave the big decisions concerning civilization to others.