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The world has gone from substance to optics. You see it in every industry or field.
by jbverschoor 1y ago
The world has gone from substance to optics. You see it in every industry or field.
- lores 1y agoHeh, optics have been important since the dawn of man, and probably even before. Ziggurats are all about optics, and so are mating displays. A cynic might say "more important", but that's hard to ascertain.
- potato3732842 1y agoAnd somehow along the way every institution seems to have forgotten the meaning of the phrase "even the appearance of impropriety".
- vkou 1y agoThe legal system, for millienia, has always been a hodgepodge of very peculiar and esoteric rules about both substance and optics. That's why lawyers exist, by the way. Outside of small claims court, laymen aren't equipped to navigate it without stepping on every possible rake imaginable.