Internet (Evidence)

billydalto:

When I was last in New Orleans I noticed several of these signs around the city. They remind me of an important Karl Popper quote posted by Mills.

(I vaguely recall DHK mentioning this but can’t find his post. This photo is from here.)

I recently went to a presentation on co-ops as an alternative business model.  Another participant who came along brought everyone a package which detailed her plan to transform the local economy based on her own bartering system, etc.  She also revealed a certain predisposition towards living in an earthship, among other pecularities.

Later I quipped to my boss that I wasn’t sure which planet her Earthship had arrived from.  And he looked at me and said, she may seem like a nutjob now, but every idea we take for granted was once the idea of a nutjob just like her.  This reminded me of a famous Bertrand Russell quote:

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”