Saturday, December 20, 2025

To invent solutions


 
I try to imagine objections to this aphorism.  What about cancer, poverty, and global warming?  To this I reply: Have the attempted solutions to these problems make things better?  If anything, the solutions have broken souls.  Problems are to be lived, not solved.
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