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Tragedy of the Commons. Hardin
If you’ve never read Garrett Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons” (1968), let me recommend it as worth having under your belt. (6 pages) https://www.hendrix.edu/uploadedFiles/Admission/GarrettHardinArticle.pdf Roughly, Hardin describes how rational individuals acting in their own self interests will deplete a shared resource at the expense of a collective’s interests. Hence a hurdle to collective action problems,… Continue reading
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‘Mom-advice’. You take a little cringe with the good.
Some parental advice is worth keeping, some not. Here’s a not. Mom used to tell me, You can’t get married until you can put your hands in hot water. By this warning she figured she could get me to wash the dishes without having to nag. And she was right. Time and again, I took… Continue reading
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Cephalus On Ageing
Cephalus, in answer to Socrates’ question of whether life is harder towards the end, “For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many.” (3) Plato, Trans. Benjamin… Continue reading
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Sweet Revenge.
It is very sweet to do a just action which is disagreeable to those we do not like. Victor Hugo. By Order of the King. (Or, The Man Who Laughs.) The Valjean Edition of the Novels of Victor Hugo. New York: P.F. Collier & Son. (1912?) The Waif Knows Its Course, p 391. Continue reading
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Thoreau Quote with Photo, On Evil
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. —… Continue reading
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It’s for these moments…
Some people think I miss the world by viewing it through my camera lens. I disagree. Rather, through my lens I become very intimate with the world. And I capture wonderful moments as in the photo below. Continue reading
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Hobbes on Consensus
If ‘x’ is true, then ‘x’ is true independently of whether one man [sic] or all men believe ‘x’ is true. But no one man’s reason, or the reason of any one number of men makes the certainty, no more than an account is therefore well cast up, because a great many men have unanimously… Continue reading
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