Hosea's Patio: September 2018

Quotes

“ Any philosophic explanation of Quality is going to be both false and true precisely because it is a philosophic explanation. The process of philosophic explanation is an analytic process, a process of breaking something down into subjects and predicates. What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word ‘quality’ cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.” - Robert Pirsig, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Thursday, September 6, 2018

"Celine's laws"?

Yesterday I was looking up something totally legitimate and work related in Wikipedia, and after a couple of follow-on clicks found myself in an article that really wasn't … but that lists three "laws" framed by a fictional character written by Robert Anton Wilson. Maybe you know these laws by heart, but yesterday was the first time I ever saw them.

Part of what amuses me about them is that the first and third are quirky and funny (which I expected) … but the second is such an obvious piece of straightforward (but routinely ignored!) organizational advice that it ought to be burned into the flesh of anyone promoted into management.

Herewith:

National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity.
Accurate communication is possible only in a non-punishing situation.
An honest politician is a national calamity.

And the article is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celine%27s_laws.

For your edification and amusement ….