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(A linked pair of writing dictums: “Don’t make things happen for no reason” and “Having made something happen, make it matter.”)
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
Growing up before smart phones meant that an image like this could inform my aesthetic inspiration for like, up to a month https://t.co/JAloVYOnqj
How each generation’s struggles evolve, building on predecessors’ sacrifices, and why future comfort is luck, not spoilage.
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They just move on to worrying about higher order problems that were previously deemed not urgent enough to worry about by the earlier generations. And so one generation worries about how to get food and shelter. The next doesn't have to worry about food and shelter, but they fret about security and safety.
The next generation has security, but they
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“The computer was not made in the image of the person. The computer was made in the image of the formal manipulations of abstract symbols. And the last 30 years of cognitive science can be seen as attempts to remake the person in the image of the computer.” — Edwin Hutchins, 1995