Want to know an amazing realization? Realizing that some of your actions are a hypocrisy. Realizing that you are guilty of a similar mindset and similar actions of those who you judge harshly. Does this happen often? I don’t know, I can’t recall it happening too often – if at all – to myself. I recall…
There are a couple of typical theories of how Value is given to economics goods. One is the Intrinsic Theory of Value, where the value of the good is intrinsic to the good itself. Meaning all value is contained within the economic good itself. This theory of value is more often seen when using fundamental…
Astrid: It’s a mess. You must feel horrible. You’ve lost everything. Your father, your tribe, your best friend… Hiccup: Thank you for summing that up. [silence] Hiccup: Why couldn’t I have killed that dragon when I found him in the woods? Would’ve been better, for everyone… Astrid: Yep. The rest of us would have done…
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate’er it touches – Shelley, Queen Mab III (Quote at start of chapter 1) What turns men into monsters? Why does power “pollute what’er it touches”?
Recent discussion has often been along the lines of authority and how we obey authorities and what authorities to obey. Having found a few more relevant quotes in They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer I’d like to return to that theme once again. Pg 290 – November 9th, 1948 at The Trials in…
The Economical Engineer 