the title is a brilliant phrase uttered on the intertubes by AdamSelene @ theoildrum.com. this space accumulates other such short, poetic, and found-elsewhere insights into the limits of human cognition. it is a project dedicated to Wes Jackson’s vision of an “ignorance-based worldview.” a brilliant phrase uttered by his friend Wendell Barry in a letter.
Archive for the basic problem
April 18, 2009 at 1:15 am · Filed under meta, the cloud and tagged: intentions, the basic problem, this blog
i found the phrase “the universe will not be controlled by the likes of us” here. what a poetic and concise summation of the basic problem! these are the two criteria i want to stick to: poetic and concise. everything else is allowed. philosophy, art, comments on my activity, pictures, things overheard – but all leading in a particular direction: toward Something As-Yet Unknown.