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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God?(Emerson)
HDTVs aren't horse flesh: you pay more for less in the gizmo game.[Boing Boing Gadgets]
Conscientious and intelligent professionals tend to mislay the habit of independent judgment, the ability to think apart from conventions, to wander outside of the box. Trained to concentrate on the means, they are ignorant of ends, driven by a self-imposed blindness to drop context and belittle any exception.
They [are] vivid examples of what Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson had warned might happen in an overspecialized modern society, where "the minds of men are contracted and rendered incapable of elevation" --but now at the top of society rather than the bottom.
[How The Scots Invented The Modern World, Arthur Herman, 2001; p. 353]
Minds contracted and rendered incapable of elevation.
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
-- Hamlet (Shakespeare)
No sooner have you turned your back that they indulge in calumny. Someone leaves them and they immediately launch into false accusations (I witnessed it). The accusations serve no purpose other than to injure one's reputation. They're not only false, they don't solve any problem, they're evil for its own sake. They spring from a malicious core, a mind so steeped in misrepresentation, that deceit and slander are its coins. The character that permanently intrigues against others is inhuman.
