Filters Quote by Garrett Hardin

“The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?” quote by Garrett Hardin — Download Open image

“The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?”

Garrett Hardin

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Ecological differentiation is the necessary condition for coexistence.

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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask,…

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Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

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“Individualism is cherished because it produces freedom, but the gift is conditional.”

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The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep…

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Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

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The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.

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Value is a relative concept: the value of each action is determined by comparing it with other possible actions.

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I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a…

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You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.

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Between Twitter and Facebook I have nearly 70,000 followers, so my colleagues receive the responses. They show some of them to me, and I am always interested to read what people have to say. I filter all the information that reaches me, from letters in the newspaper, to conversations. There are many influences that shape my decisions, and often people…

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Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so…

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The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they…

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The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just…

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Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't…

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It is impossible to estimate full influence of the reading of the Word in a home day after day and year after year. It filters into the hearts of the young. It is absorbed into their souls. It colors all their thoughts. It is wrought into the very fiber of their minds. It imbues them with its own spirit. It’s…

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The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think…

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Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter out all else or never learn of alternatives. Thus they narrow their options, and magnify each other's prejudices and misconceptions. This trend leads to blind spots in decision making and to extreme behavior, even terrorism.

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