X-Message-Number: 20888 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 10:18:30 -0800 From: Kennita Watson <> Subject: Quantitative vs. qualitative progress Yvan Bozzonetti wrote: > We are in a time saturated society and quantitative progress has taken all > our time. 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? I think my impatience with discussions of this kind comes from a feeling that they spend an inordinate amount of time attempting to answer questions whose answers are totally irrelevant to how I live my life, and, what's more, failing. I'm looking at a pile of bills to pay and wondering why people engage in these sorts of woolgathering, navel-contemplating arguments. If it's for entertainment, maybe you should get out more. (end rant) -- 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" Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20888