Fraser Fuite

I was thinking of an old line of thought. That Occam's razor is often understood to mean that the simplest explaination is the one that you should favour; and is probably true.

I see here an interesting relationship between this line of thought, and the notion of the thought-terminating cliche.

"It is what it is" is the most simple statement possible, and it can be said with absolute certainty at any time. But when you say it, you signal you are closing yourself to more complexity.

I propose: instead of having cupboards for dishes, people just have 2 dishwashers. One is the clean dishwasher, one is the dirty one--and they just trade places when you run out in the former "clean" dishwasher.

Should be practical and affordable for small households.

In many respects, staying in Québec is emotionally difficult for me. Because here is a society that was the most Catholic in the world--but this, my religion, instead of reinventing itself for life, died instead, within the span of a single generation.

I have rejected conservativism in my own life. And I do pray less than when my mind was weighed down by conservative lead. Still--I value times like today, when I remember that my own faith is not dead--though it is often sleeping.

On y va!

@Jeremy@nwt.social I would appreciate your advice on who to follow! And I will be slow to do things. But I will eventually.

I shall hereby begin to microblog!

Maxim 6: many stones are not-thrown in politics, because everyone lives in a glass house. If you can build the only brick house in town, you can throw a fucktonne of stones.

Maxim 5: in the human world, obeying the rule of law, it is easiest to maintain something that already exists. Destorying something is hard--and building something new is even harder.

I think this is probably as a reaction to the natural ease of destruction in the world. The law is designed to counter destruction, because this force is never far away from us. However, the idea of opportunity--creating something new and unneccessary--is not so strong a motivator. And so, new creation is hard.

Maxim 4: in the physical world, it is easier to destroy something than to create it.

(eg, a thriving human life takes many years to build--but it can be ended by a ten-cent bullet).

Maxim 3: running out of money can indeed lead to creativity--and solving the problem better. (I am at a loss for applying this force in a systematic way).

Maxim 2: often, you can get like 20% of the performance, for 5% of the price. And this is often plenty good enough.

Maxim 1: the world is full of trade-offs.

(This can cause disagreement, and political delay, if factions form based on their tendancies to care about one side of this trade-off).

However: a hell of a lot of trade offs are just ridiculously tiny on one side--and thus, the decision should be clear

(and the opposition should be ashamed for making mountains out of molehills).

I need to write down a series of political maxims, I will keep returning to. Might as well be here.