How clearly this emerges as we try to drink from the informational
firehoses every day. Two thoughts:
1) To trust certain people with the culling tasks is to empower them.
In the social framework, culling can be the enemy of choice.
2) Surrender may be inevitable and necessary, but the fabrics of
information are interwoven so richly and finely that many works inform
each work we read. The traces of Aristotle lie latent in most of what
we read in the West. We need not read Euclid's Elements to gather its
meaning, because most published mathematical works use its paradigms.
And the few who read one obscure scribbler may find in their reading
what will inform all that they write, which in turn whole worlds may
read. Surrender, in the end, becomes a joyful swim in the great seas of
knowledge.
On 4/19/2011 7:43 AM, Alicia Henn wrote:
Culling is easy; it implies a huge amount of control and mastery.
Surrender, on the other hand, is a little sad.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/04/18/135508305/the-sad-beautiful-fact-that-were-all-going-to-miss-almost-everything
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