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Note: When reading dry political theory, such as the texts you will find on the following pages, it may be useful to apply the Exclamation Point Test from time to time, to determine if the material you are reading is actually relevant to your life. To apply this test, simply go through the text replacing all the punctuation marks at the ends of the sentences with exclamation points. If the results sound absurd when read aloud, then you know you're wasting your time.


CrimethInc.


#exclamation-points #history #reading #life

The language of mathematics differs from that of everyday life, because it is essentially a rationally planned language. The languages of size have no place for private sentiment, either of the individual or of the nation. They are international languages like the binomial nomenclature of natural history. In dealing with the immense complexity of his social life man has not yet begun to apply inventiveness to the rational planning of ordinary language when describing different kinds of institutions and human behavior. The language of everyday life is clogged with sentiment, and the science of human nature has not advanced so far that we can describe individual sentiment in a clear way. So constructive thought about human society is hampered by the same conservatism as embarrassed the earlier naturalists. Nowadays people do not differ about what sort of animal is meant by Cimex or Pediculus, because these words are used only by people who use them in one way. They still can and often do mean a lot of different things when they say that a mattress is infested with bugs or lice. The study of a man's social life has not yet brought forth a Linnaeus. So an argument about the 'withering away of the State' may disclose a difference about the use of the dictionary when no real difference about the use of the policeman is involved. Curiously enough, people who are most sensible about the need for planning other social amenities in a reasonable way are often slow to see the need for creating a rational and international language.


Lancelot Hogben


#mathematics #life

Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works.


Daniel J. Bernstein


#because #just #just because #mean #works

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.


Jacques Lacan


#formative #function #i #mirror #psychoanalytic

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.


Lactantius


#divine #give #homer #human #information

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.


Jhumoa Lahiri


#breathe #certain #characters #conveying #enabling

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#breathe #certain #characters #conveying #enabling

The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.


Joseph Lancaster


#adapted #books #containing #education #expensive

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.


Jaron Lanier


#engaging #engineering #impossible #information #information technology

It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.


Franklin Knight Lane


#democratic #democratic party #estimation #found #great






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