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My friend Mr. Toop sent me this today. It relates to a few online debates I'm having in various places, but it also adds a deeper dimension to what I'm trying to express.

If you plan to build a ship
then do not gather people in order to
find wood and prepare tools,
do not distribute responsibilities
and try to make work more pleasant.

rather, teach them to have
a longing for the wide, endless sea

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I love how poetry (mythos) can more precisely express what logic (logos) tries in vain to categorize and explain.