On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:35 AM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:44 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Michael Brady < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I've been preoccupied lately by two ideas that I believe are related: >>> >>> Error >>> Quality >>> >>> >> As far as I am concerned, once there is no such thing as error, there can >> be no such thing as quality. >> > > Let me rephrase what I previously said: > > - ...Once people start believing that there is no such thing as error, > then that's the beginning of the end of quality. > The 21st-century has lost sight of the notion of deviation and transgression. In fact, they seem to have become the what is now euphemistically called "the new normal": - *It is perfectly easy to be original* by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. Oliver Wendell *Holmes*
