SUO: Re: VOFIOTI
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Arisbeans,
Experience -- once again, of that sadder-yet-wiser variety --
informs me that one of the very first obstacles that I may
need to address in this enterprise, even if, especially if,
it doesn't appear to show its face right off at the outset,
is the pernicious effect of a subtle "progressive fallacy" --
it is not discernible in its onset from the garden variety
"progressivist fallacy", but it grows much worse with time --
that was especially prevalent throughout the depth and the
breadth of the Late Great Twentieth Century, and so to the
necessities of a certain prophylactic measure must I first,
unfortunately turn.
I find it rather surprising, especially in this day and age,
that I would find myself forced to bring the matter of such
a resistant strain of indisposition up, since the practical
unavoidability of backtracks in algorithms, that is, should
it come to any non-trivial job or truly significant problem,
well, that is all but common knowledge nowadays, and so how
could anybody miss the near inevitability of the likelihood
that a backtrack in our intellectual history will be forced
upon us every now and then?
But, of course, even those who admit to the possibility that progress
is not always such a monotonely straightforward matter as many desire
to believe -- well, I guess that even such sophisticated observers as
these would find many points on which to disagree, when it comes down
to the nitty-gritty particular details of where and when and just how
far back the track must go to find what was lost, perhaps, on the way.
So let us take a break to let that sink into our awareness or our oblivion,
as the case may be, and then I will return to defend my recommendations of
what I think that we are in dire need of recovering from our own histories.
Until Then,
Jon Awbrey
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