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And from George Bernard Shaw: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore
by bobbiechen 6y ago
And from George Bernard Shaw:
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
- taurath 6y agoWhich is a distinctly western sort of thought, that insists on a person being somehow outside and not of the world in which he inhabits.
- dragonsngoblins 6y agoI disagree that it insists on that. You can be part of the world but the world is still external to you.
- chadcmulligan 6y agoI always say the world doesn't care about humans, what people call the 'real world' is just a bunch of made up rules people have decided on so we all get along, and a (different, smaller) bunch of people can make money out of.
- quotemstr 6y agoWell, yeah. We, uniquely among life on earth, shape our world rather than suffer it. That's a good thing.
- LeonB 6y agoA beaver with his blueprint for a new dam would like a word.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoTermites, Crocs, ants. No doubt others.
- alt219 6y agoPerhaps quotemstr should’ve written “architect” instead of “shape”. A beaver for example could never conceptualize, engineer or build the Taj Mahal—indeed any structure whatsoever other than what the beaver’s biological imperative demands of it.
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