Entirely inevitable that Scarry retired to Switzerland? I think there might be a moralizing lesson here about the Old Continent being not as supportive of the

Entirely inevitable that Scarry retired to Switzerland? I think there might be a moralizing lesson here about the Old Continent being not as supportive of the SW industry, CH being interesting because of the well maintained balance between ag, traditional industry, tech, finance, SMEs,MNCs, etc. I don't want to extend the analogy to algebra/syntax (vs geometry or analysis or diagrams) but one can certainly go there. As the Russian saints of XXe & XIXe siecle might agree, the problem with unreasonable effectiveness is that it gives certain intellects more effectiveness than their reason (native(/social? holocratic?) cognitive abilities) can handle. Putting the human housecat amongst human flightless birds? At the end of the story the housecat still gets to starve to death or be shot. The nerd may become the jock, and the jock may become the nerd, but ultimately more value is extracted from the whole than is returned to it.. The second law of cognitodynamics? Contact with equuids, or CH culture being very outdoorsy certainly helps to remind the housecat that the pigeons are not as dumb as they think, and more than deserving to be more-than-kept-alive, and (in the economic context), "squeezed for their non-cognitive value* but otherwise neglected" Sorry to sometimes state that TK was a saint, but without him, I wouldn't have understood the message of the Russian saints/Grothendieck (who overemphasized the role of what seemed to be traditional religion) (To me TK is like Woland (the smith?) in Mastr i Margarita) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_the_Smith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_the_Smith (Somehow apotheosized by the Greeks to an actual deity) I am starting to think that mandatory (ie of the fiducial duty) constant close contact with your peers' toddlers needs to be reified as the core abstraction of the kibbutzim that needs to be kept alive, at all costs. (With the difficulty, of course, in having a good working definition of "peer". I know what bad definitions are though: fellow officers, aristocrats, software engineers, founders..)