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Zhuangzi understands virtue as manifested by living in accordance with nature. Corruption occurs, according to Zhuangzi, only when one deviates from nature’s path. If nature determines that a person has one arm, splayed limbs or a hunched back, the person can embrace these changes and harmonize with them. As Zhuangzi says, “Virtue [takes] no form.”
Opinion | Was This Ancient Taoist the First Philosopher of Disability?
nytimes.com
The overarching logic of all industry metrics is exactly the same as GDP; the only thing that matters is growth, growth, growth, no matter the collateral damage along the way. Unrestricted scaling is a vision of infinite growth based on identifying previously unrealised forms of enclosure, and also a claim to forms of knowledge that will reach beyond human understanding.
Decomputing as Resistance
Dan McQuillan
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something that must be abolished, is the [supreme idiocy], in a general sense a real disaster in its consequences … almost as stupid as the will to abolish bad weather.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
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