User:Fasten/YHVH/Dictionary/digital
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digital: "You want to dig (understand) it all", not: "You want to dig all [the gold]".
digital watch: "You want to watch that everybody understands it ¹)"., not: "You want to watch how much your neighbour earns".
¹) The necessity of altruism, environmentalism and ethics or the Categorical Imperative.
[edit] Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy
- Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
- This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. ²)
- And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
²) This suggests that money is irrelevant but in a world where money has the importance it has today the distribution of money is one of the more significant problems. You can't tune the whole society to respond to money and then try to ignore it and try to solve problems without it. With money in the important position it has today the problem to solve is either how to push back it's importance or how to build a fair economy with money.
