& BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2022-01-20 Th: Any kind of useful psychological theory is—at least today—crystallized narrative, whether fictional or nonfictional narrative. There may some day be other kinds of psychological theory useful for shedding light on how to accomplish the tasks of organizing humans, but at the moment we are not there yet.... The very sharp Adam Gurri... accuses humanists of being technocrats, with the only difference that being that the humanist technocrats they choose—people like Homer, Hume, and Hofstadter—claim to have a different kind of knowledge then do the high priests of engineering and cost-benefit analysis.... But their knowledge.... The kind of thing that can lead someone to say that wall reading Benjamin Graham on principles evaluation was very useful for their financial sector job, reading analysis of texts written about mediæval witchcraft was even more valuable...
Patrick Henry? " With respect to that part of the proposal which says that every power not granted remains with the people, it must be previous to adoption, or it will involve this country in inevitable destruction. ... Among ten thousand implied powers which they may assume, they may, if we be engaged in war, liberate every one of your slaves if they please. "
I always told my engineer father that engineers just thought they were smart because they solved all the easy problems.
Patrick Henry? " With respect to that part of the proposal which says that every power not granted remains with the people, it must be previous to adoption, or it will involve this country in inevitable destruction. ... Among ten thousand implied powers which they may assume, they may, if we be engaged in war, liberate every one of your slaves if they please. "