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2022-09-04 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by BrerRabbit 2022-09-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 I remember this in our English essay text book from soooo long ago. Gave you a sense of wonder for human industry, a gestalt of the constant... business of progress.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-04 03:38|| 2022-09-04 03:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Today, things be like...

Posted by Dron66046 2022-09-04 03:38|| 2022-09-04 03:38|| Front Page Top

#3 I may not read a greater truth today.

None of the Robespierres of the world knew how to make a pencil, yet they wanted to remake entire societies. How utterly preposterous, and mournfully tragic! But we will miss a large implication of Leonard Read’s message if we assume it aims only at the tyrants whose names we all know. The lesson of “I, Pencil” is not that error begins when the planners plan big. It begins the moment one tosses humility aside, assumes he knows the unknowable, and employs the force of the State against peaceful individuals. That’s not just a national disease. It can be very local indeed.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-04 04:46|| 2022-09-04 04:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Theres an interesting book by Henry Petroski titled simply, The Pencil. Pencils are the first precision made commercial product ever sold. The amount of technology that goes into making a simple #2 wooden pencil is more complex than many realize. Plus the "lead" in that pencil is the result of one of the first government sponsored industrial research projects.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2022-09-04 19:47|| 2022-09-04 19:47|| Front Page Top

#5 All Petroski's books are worth reading.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-04 19:50|| 2022-09-04 19:50|| Front Page Top

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