Comments on: In or Out? (Long Philosophical Ramble #1)

By: H.

H. — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:12:57 +0000

…and Louis MacNeice’s poem “Entirely.”

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Are You In? Or Are You Out? « Focus — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:59:43 +0000

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By: dstrasser

dstrasser — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:09:22 +0000

I’ll repeat something you told me a few posts back. “At least you know what stake you’re tied to.”

And you’re quite right about the math, although I was trying (unclearly) to be poetic-metaphorical-thing-type-symbolic-ish.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:23:07 +0000

I think you’re forgetting the economic math of our profession, although you did mention the term “cost-benefit analysis”…not sure if you mean it literally. If you believe that humans make decisions based on economic motive, which I think is at least partially true, then that must be considered in the motivational mathematics. But anyway…

This is something I struggle with deeply. I still think that I do mostly good, even in the face of massive piles of garbage. And then you work to get those piles smaller, at least that’s what I’m trying to do. I think you give up hope if you don’t, and that leads to numbness.

I continue to worry about the people that don’t realize they are even in the pile in the first place. Perhaps it’s that that maintains the system. Look at politics right now. Massive change is happening as people are starting to wake up from the numb slumber.

What the hell do I know though…