#wisdom

This post by JA Westenberg is about the 'middle path' which they equate with the Buddha, but which I'd associate with Aristotle:

We talk about the boring middle. The lazy middle. The compromised middle. But I put it to you that our obsession with picking the extreme and laughing at moderation is little more than cope. It’s our obsession with tribalism, with extremism, with feeling over thinking, with belonging over being. It’s destructive, unhelpful, and soul-destroying.

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If you find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go along with him, overcoming all dangers, pleased at heart and mindful.

But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.

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I love it when people share the accumulated wisdom of their life so far. Yes, it’s often very similar in content, but the way that it’s expressed matters. And also, the fact that these kinds of things are often similar shows that there’s truth at the centre.

From The Salmon of Doubt:

We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

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