Nice post. I got there though recommendation from the "The Sample". I write the "sad" newsletter. So I though your newsletter name is also cool. :) About the topic...I like the idea of getting over the "obsession with real and unreal, rational and irrational". But I am not sure about the thinking in terms of utility. Maybe I will add contexts and situation matter. For example, in lots of countries you hear philosophy, language, and literature departments in the colleges and universities are closing. Because they do not serve a certain utility as the way math and science does. So I see a slippery slope there.
Interesting name for a newsletter man. Quite clever. Yes, that's true about liberal arts courses, even intellectuals like David Perrel (I am assuming you know him), are concerned about it. But I share a different view, and I think it is quite inevitable that liberal arts will lose its relevancy over time as it fails to be an employment-generating course. However, as a philosophy enthusiast, I don't want that to happen.
It's highly subjective to consider that utility of social constructs change. In some cases it's true, in others we cannot say for sure. For instance the idea of currency is one that has proven to be helpful consistently for a vast timespan—5000 years!
I'm not sure whether it's going to be the same way for the next 5000 years, but I strongly believe that currency (in any form, digital or physical) is Lindy!
On the other end of the spectrum, there are a lot of religious ideas that became extinct recently.
Nice post. I got there though recommendation from the "The Sample". I write the "sad" newsletter. So I though your newsletter name is also cool. :) About the topic...I like the idea of getting over the "obsession with real and unreal, rational and irrational". But I am not sure about the thinking in terms of utility. Maybe I will add contexts and situation matter. For example, in lots of countries you hear philosophy, language, and literature departments in the colleges and universities are closing. Because they do not serve a certain utility as the way math and science does. So I see a slippery slope there.
Interesting name for a newsletter man. Quite clever. Yes, that's true about liberal arts courses, even intellectuals like David Perrel (I am assuming you know him), are concerned about it. But I share a different view, and I think it is quite inevitable that liberal arts will lose its relevancy over time as it fails to be an employment-generating course. However, as a philosophy enthusiast, I don't want that to happen.
I like the post. But if we deep, we can find utility in itself is not real. It can change with seasons and the level of consciousness of a society
It's highly subjective to consider that utility of social constructs change. In some cases it's true, in others we cannot say for sure. For instance the idea of currency is one that has proven to be helpful consistently for a vast timespan—5000 years!
I'm not sure whether it's going to be the same way for the next 5000 years, but I strongly believe that currency (in any form, digital or physical) is Lindy!
On the other end of the spectrum, there are a lot of religious ideas that became extinct recently.
Nice post mate!
Thanks Neeraj. 🙌