As it happens, standing still and blinking is a perfect illustration of a certain principle of philosophy. It’s a paradox, thought up by Zeno. Zeno was an ancient Greek philosopher who ended up being tortured by people who didn’t like his ideas. Nowadays philosophers are hardly ever tortured, because most people ignore them completely, and it’s hard to say which is the worse fate for philosophy and the people who practice it, being tortured or being ignored.
