X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fneither-as-plea-nor-as-despair.md;fp=content%2Fdrafts%2Fneither-as-plea-nor-as-despair.md;h=d3fd314595794d40889cd6561b78d232b6e7e95f;hb=db41107d702d1fab04c522b986c88f5c25bfeb4d;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hpb=286f720b47fde525815fcba6c428ae75535eff7c;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/content/drafts/neither-as-plea-nor-as-despair.md b/content/drafts/neither-as-plea-nor-as-despair.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d3fd314 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/neither-as-plea-nor-as-despair.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Title: "Neither as Plea nor as Despair" +Date: 2017-09-22 +Category: other +Tags: Atlas Shrugged, cathartic +Status: draft + +Basically the question is, do you want to be Dagny Taggart in the school play at an all-boys school, or do you want to be Eddie Willers in the school play at your actual high school + +Both schools deserve to exist (I mean, your actual high school doesn't deserve to exist, but its analogue in a nearby alternate universe that puts on _Atlas Shrugged_ as its school play, probably does) + +In an infinite universe of infinite space and infinite time, all possible configurations of matter are instantiated infinitely many times—but not at the same rate, frequency, density, [_measure_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_problem_(cosmology)) + +[...] + +When everything exists and everything happens, choices between alternatives become rather a question of how we allocate measure between them, the definite answer to which is no less determinate than if there were only one of you + +I don't know what you want to do with your measure; that's not for me to decide + +I'm putting most of mine on Eddie Willers, and frantically correcting all the _blatant lies_ in the playbill + +It's not the _most_ fun I could be having, but it's still pretty fun overall + +And you know, I like Eddie Willers + +He's honest