The Importance of not Thinking too Much

http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire080103.asp

by byrneseyeview • 19 years ago

12 5 19 years ago

mattmaroon• 19 years ago

"Recall learning to drive a car, when you actually did have to think through what you were doing: "Depress clutch... OK, bring up slowly while releasing handbrake and depressing gas pedal slightly... look in mirror..."

What is a clutch?

davidw• 19 years ago

Some kind of phallic symbol installed in European automobiles.

BristolStoolMan• 19 years ago

The one thing that separates the men from the boys.

neilk• 19 years ago

And while writing this article, the author took his own advice.

bayareaguy• 19 years ago

My point is that a field of knowledge can endure a "crisis of foundations," in which the most fundamental issues are opened up for inquiry and deconstruction, without causing any permanent harm to the field.

I would push even further and assert that any field of knowledge which doesn't regularly experience such crises is stagnant.

The Importance of not Thinking too Much

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