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Apr 27
We're all surrounded by clutter, and it's not particularly our fault, it's a historical phenomenon, downstream of the Industrial Revolution and the Consumer Value System. Nevertheless it is our problem.
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Look, I love a set of best practices as much as the next guy. Hell, my whole thing is like "Material Culture Best-Practices for Convivial Post-Apocalypse Living."
But best practices are always a bandaid. They're a least-worst type thing. A fallen condition.
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Science gave us many gems of useful heuristics, and now the bureaucratic apparatus looks to science to minimize its exposure to bad events as a sort of "best practices."
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"Oh, well, the guy with the papers and the credentials told me it was the best thing to do, so I did it, *so it's not my fault.*"
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But people get very defensive if you suggest that their value is imaginary.
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