I don’t wish it on anyone

by Ben Atlas on 04.20.2010.7:24am · 0 comments

When people say “I don’t wish it on anyone” what they really mean is “I hope you all get it, so you know how I feel”. And here is one of the two major flaws of the unintelligent design. First is that people think in terms of patterns, like “Germans in WWI came around here and they were so nice and polite, why we need to run?”. But even in the small things people tend to operate, decide and advise based on a pattern, they chart the past to erroneously assume that the pattern persists. They even confuse wisdom with the memorized patterns.

And the second flaw is the inability to understand without an experience. In the past years I recognized how dramatically experience changes our perception and how imperfect is the abstract knowledge, but I don’t wish it on anyone.

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