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A quotation from Pratchett, Terry
“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.”
“It’s a lot more complicated than that –”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”
“Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes –”
“But they starts with thinking about people as things …”
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Carpe Jugulum [Granny Weatherwax, Rev. Mightily Oats] (1998)
#quote #quotes #quotation #dehumanization #evil #sin #objectification #vice #fundamentals #immorality #othering #people #simplicity
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/pratchett-terry/46945/
Talk the talk
Keep going until silence sets in.
Jung’s Tower: simplicity and the inner life
Recent news of technological incursions into consciousness itself (virtual reality and altered memories); almost daily revelations about NSA spying; suggestions that social media “isolates people from reality;” it’s enough to make you want to unplug all the gadgets – at least for a while!
Renowned psychologist, Carl Jung (1875-1961) did just that, for months at a time, in a tower-house complex he started building in 1923 and continued to work on for the rest of his life. He often spent months each year living as simply as possible, without electricity or running water. It’s easy to think he lived in a simpler time and couldn’t have imagined modern complexity, but consider these words he wrote in his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, published in 1961, the year he died:
“We rush impetuously into novelty, driven by a mounting sense of insufficiency, dissatisfaction, and restlessness. We no longer live on what we have, but on promises, no longer in the light of the present day, but in the darkness of the future, which, we expect, will at last bring the proper sunrise. We refuse to recognize that everything better is purchased at the price of something worse; that, for example, the hope of greater freedom is canceled out by increased enslavement to the state, not to speak of the terrible perils to which the most brilliant discoveries of science expose us.
………………………
…new methods or gadgets, are of course impressive at first, but in the long run they are dubious and in any case dearly paid for. They by no means increase the contentment or happiness of people on the whole. Mostly they are deceptive sweetenings of existence, like speedier communications which unpleasantly accelerate the tempo of life and leave us with less time than ever before.”
Ten years before starting the tower, Jung had a painful break with Freud that precipitated a period of disorientation and a huge uprush of the kind of unconscious contents he had witnessed in schizophrenic patients. Feeling that his experience was purposeful, he chose to submit to the unconscious with writing, art, and the effort to understand. Out of this phase of turmoil and uncertainty, his unique psychological insights were born. Paper and ink, he said, did not seem “real” enough to represent his discoveries, so in 1922 he purchased land on Lake Zurich for a “representation in stone” of his “innermost thoughts.”
Jung wrote at length of the parallel developments of his inner life and the tower, over more than three decades, saying things like:
“At Bollingen I am in the midst of my true life, I am most deeply myself”
“At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons.”
“I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!”
In a seminar in 1939, Jung said:
“We have no symbolic life, and we are all badly in need of the symbolic life. Only the symbolic life can express the need of the soul – the daily need of the soul, mind you! And because people have no such thing, they can never step out of this mill – this awful, banal, grinding life in which they are “nothing but.”
The Bollingen Tower became a vital way for Jung to live the symbolic life, but he would have been the first to insist that we don’t need to carve stone or build houses to find it for ourselves. All we need is the hunger. And the will to begin.
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team, team, team team…
In Germany, everyone is his/her own team, there are only one-man, one-woman teams.
teams not necessarily help each other
the best “help” you can get from another “team” is “it is somewhere in the (incomplete, outdated, no body cares) dokuwiki”
often they also work against each other
so actually there are no teams
without social skills and development as human being
the only interface that still exists is text and money
“give me that, here the money”
a “helpful” “community” isn’t it?
which reminds me of:
have no problem with that, just please do not raise any expectations that it might be otherwise.
“we are a hip, cool and fun company” (no)
just say it out loud: “we are a boring company, our systems are a grown mess and we are about to lose control, want to fix it?”
well if you read & understood K.I.S.S (simplify, simplify, simplify, standardize, automate) it could be fixed over the course of several years, if not: no.
to ignore K.I.S.S means: leaving behind an badly documented mess, either for others to fix or to die (delete & restart).
Any newcomer’s motivation will die fast, when being stuck without help and with outdated documentation.
Aka: the company is doomed to die in a self made mess. (Don’t tell me i did not warn ya)
Some will ride the rainbow, until it dies.
You just killed your own company and your job, but not in the way McIlroy envisioned it:
“As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.”
(probably quoting JFKennedy)
PS: those guys at ubuntu surely also never have heard of K.I.S.S
the only reason ubuntu is still a thing, is that it is based on K.I.S.S respecting Debian
also: systemd has become “creepware” (it used to do startup, now it also does network config, WHY? WHY? (because it want’s to rule them all)
#linux #gnu #gnulinux #opensource #administration #sysops #team #teams #it #crowd #company #germany #error #mistake #unix #kiss #simplify #simplicity #rant
Originally posted at: https://dwaves.de/2021/11/10/rant-system-philosophy-it-that-ignore-unix-k-i-s-s-will-die-in-germany-there-are-only-one-man-teams/
system philosophy: IT that ignore UNIX K.I.S.S will die - in Germany there are only one man teams
team, team, team team…
In Germany, everyone is his/her own team, there are only one-man, one-woman teams.
teams not necessarily help each other
the best “help” you can get from another “team” is “it is somewhere in the (incomplete, outdated, no body cares) dokuwiki”
often they also work against each other
so actually there are no teams
without social skills and development as human being
the only interface that still exists is text and money
“give me that, here the money”
a “helpful” “community” isn’t it?
which reminds me of:
have no problem with that, just please do not raise any expectations that it might be otherwise.
“we are a hip, cool and fun company” (no)
just say it out loud: “we are a boring company, our systems are a grown mess and we are about to lose control, want to fix it?”
well if you read & understood K.I.S.S (simplify, simplify, simplify, standardize, automate) it could be fixed over the course of several years, if not: no.
to ignore K.I.S.S means: leaving behind an badly documented mess, either for others to fix or to die (delete & restart).
Any newcomer’s motivation will die fast, when being stuck without help and with outdated documentation.
Aka: the company is doomed to die in a self made mess. (Don’t tell me i did not warn ya)
Some will ride the rainbow, until it dies.
You just killed your own company and your job, but not in the way McIlroy envisioned it:
“As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.”
(probably quoting JFKennedy)
#linux #gnu #gnulinux #opensource #administration #sysops #team #teams #it #crowd #company #germany #error #mistake #unix #kiss #simplify #simplicity
Originally posted at: https://dwaves.de/2021/11/10/system-philosophy-it-that-ignore-unix-k-i-s-s-will-die-in-germany-there-are-only-one-man-teams/
Losing the spirit of simplicity generates a shallow practice.
The only thing we should remember in our practice is how easy it is to forget the ‘just’ in ‘just sitting’.
https://notesandsilence.com/2022/02/16/just
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When facing the radical simplicity of Christ,
Nothing can resist.
https://notesandsilence.com/2021/12/27/radical-simplicity
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#healing #spirituality
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A quotation by Richardson, James
Our lives get complicated because complexity is so much simpler than simplicity.
James Richardson (b. 1950) American poet
“Vectors: 56 Aphorisms and Ten-second Essays,” Michigan Quarterly Review, # 7 (Spring 1999)
#quotation #quote #complexity #disorganization #life #simplicity
More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/richardson-james/48710/