What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
There are some things that can be said in 140 characters or less; for everything else, there’s WordPress. In keeping with Heinlein’s wise advice, this blog is a way for me to figure out what are the facts: to analyze some of the implications of ideas and see whether the real world looks anything like that, or whether we might get it to look like that, and whether we’d like the looks of it if we did. Expect the essays and excursions herein to be conducted on the principle that 20% of a vague truth is better than 100% of a precise falsehood.
Of course, Heinlein also said that writing should be done in private and you should wash your hands afterwards. Still, nowadays people do publicly and online all sorts of things that might be better done in private.
Oh, I almost forgot: cuardach is Gaelic for “quest,” the quest being of course one for understanding. (In the interests of sanity, there will be no more Gaelic on this blog, ever again.)
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