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One of Leibowitz’s favorite stories was about a donkey placed equidistant from two bundles of hay.
In the story the donkey can’t decide which bundle of hay is closer to him, and so dies of hunger. “Leibowitz would then say that no donkey would do this; a donkey would just go at random to one or the other and eat.
It’s only when decisions are made by people that they get...
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And then he said, ‘What h...
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country when a donkey makes the decisions that people are supposed to make you can rea...
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“When someone says something, don’t ask yourself if it is true. Ask what it might be true of.”
‘There is nothing we can do in philosophy. Plato solved too many of the problems. We can’t have any impact in this area. There are too many smart guys and too few problems left, and the problems have no solutions.’”
by undoing the mistakes of others. As it turned out, other people had made some other mistakes.
