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> People should get to grips with the reality of their mortality and make peace with that. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable o
by ben_w 1y ago
> People should get to grips with the reality of their mortality and make peace with that.
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.
- George Bernard Shaw
- lupusreal 1y agoThat's nice, but you're still going to die. We all will, and the world is better off for it because progress happens one funeral at a time.
- ben_w 1y agoThat mistakes academic personal power for all power: If funerals were in general the only way progress happened, every genocide would cause scientific/technological/economic revolutions. Recessions are sufficient to clear bad leadership in the private sector; elections in democratic governments.