Finally someone who understands me. Whatever becomes measurable, becomes controllable, which is the antidote to freedom, wildness, life (to some extent)..

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sdenton4 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

My favorite Samuel Delany story is about a woman in a village who invents writing, and teaches it to all the children. She makes a rule that you're never allowed to write down people's names, as it will inevitably lead to keeping records comparing people, and thus leading to strife...

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booleandilemma 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

There's a good Ted Chiang story about how writing conflicts with a village's tradition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...

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le-mark 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I haven’t read that one, do you know of a collection that has it?

	▲	sdenton4 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I believe it's in Tales of Neveryon, 'the tale of old venn.' The whole series is extremely incentive and goes on some very different directions... The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals in 'Flight from Neveryon' was also particularly mind blowing.

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supportengineer 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’m ethically torn whether to upvote this

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dylan604 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Being able to have simplicity of working on a task until it is done when society didn't have these per hour scheduling concepts. I remember hearing this referenced when learning about Amish and Native American cultures. Essentially, this is what were doing. When it is finished, we move on to next. No arbitrary start/stop time because some hand on a dial is pointing at a certain number.