X-Message-Number: 20924
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:21:51 -0800
From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #20888 Quantitative vs. qualitative progress 

>>From K. Watson:

>> > We are in a time saturated society and quantitative progress has  
> taken all
> 
>> Either it has or it hasn't.  So what?  What do I do differently
>> in either case?  Lobby my Congressman?  Choose different
>> investments?  Change careers?  Cancel my cryonics arrangements
>> (fat chance)?  Learn tensor calculus?  Worry?  
> 
> what about making something in the material world? drilling, melting/casting 
> metal, poorring concrete and so on? The fact that you don't even think at 
> such activities is a proof that we live in an artificial world disconnected 
> from reality.
> 
Those activities are subsumed under "change careers", and
none of them seems to have anything to do with progress,
either qualitative or quantitative.  You seemed to be
complaining that we were making quantitative rather than
qualitative progress.  I was asking in my turn how I
could make qualitative progress rather than bellyaching
about it.

-- 
May you live long and prosper,
Kennita
--
Kennita Watson          | Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
     |   None but ourselves can free our minds.
http://www.kennita.com  |           -- Bob Marley, "Redemption Song"

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