"Ultimately there are people who want to live, not in a world of reconciliation, but in a world without repercussions... ...It takes a lot to “cut a parent (or a sibling) off.” Usually it’s a question of safety, whether psychological or physical. And even then (and here I’ll speak from personal experience) we keep trying … Continue reading A World Without Repercussions
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The Vatican is the Oldest Computer in the World
Francis Spufford once said that Bletchley Park was an attempt to build a computer out of human beings so the credit for this metaphor belongs to him. But it can be generalised to any bureaucracy. They are all attempts to impose an algorithmic order on the messiness of the world, and to extract from it … Continue reading The Vatican is the Oldest Computer in the World
