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Submission + - Amathia: The Blindness of the Soul in an Age of Knowledge (vividcomm.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: The term amathia appears frequently in classical Greek philosophy, most notably in the works of Plato. It is often translated as “ignorance,” but this rendering does not capture its nuance. Amathia is not the innocent ignorance of lacking information; it is, as Socrates implied, “the ignorance of not wanting to know.” This form of unknowing is tied to character, disposition, and moral orientation. It represents a failure of the whole person, not simply a failure of intellect. The amathic individual lives in a state where beliefs are accepted without examination, where truth is subordinate to desire, and where learning is resisted because it threatens identity or comfort.

Comment Re: We fear change. (Score 1) 522

by cashew76 (#64885207) Attached to: EVs Are Just Going To Win
Every Dollar spent on Electricity gets us closer to a Green Grid. BEV is much simpler, instantly charged when you wake up in the morning like your cell phone. Don't use the Whatabout-ism of clean when comparing to oil.

Comment 100mb Fast Ethernet DOS at the Hospital (Score 2) 73

One day i was called to the hospital to troubleshoot an old DOS computer which stopped working. Some critical system, they couldn't just make it go away. I booted to the F8 menu and stepped through the Config.sys and Autoexec.bat and found the system crashed a few seconds after loading the NIC drivers. Repeated the sequence, and found it occurred and completely correlated with the first network driver layer. Asked if anything changed recently - like the switch? "Oh yeah last night actually." Please reconfigure the switch port to 10meg. Lets see if the buffer doesn't overflow and crash out. Fixed. Pfew. Ancient DOS system lived for another day.

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"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." -- Bernard Berenson

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