Random Observations on the Internet: Order and Chaos

Do you sometimes long for the S**t talking era of the internet? Where you could talk about the Pauli-exclusion principal in one breath and segway into Schopenhauer the next, and, yet, like reading your first book on chaos, competing themes had a sort of harmony?

The past few years of the internet, in a general sense, reminds me of a riddle posed to John Locke, which involves a blind man from birth can distinguish a sphere and cube; suddenly given sight, can the person tell the sphere from the cube without touching?

Molyneaux first posed the question in a letter to Locke, who replied that no, the once-blind, now-sighted man wouldn't be able to differentiate between the shapes by sight alone.

What was that train of thought, again? Anyways...


The lovely internet: the great modern opinion regurgitation machine. Maybe it could do with some advice from Johnny Mercer?