A human is an expanding equation, A Human Strategy, Matt Berry, aphorism 295

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A human is an expanding equation.  We tend to think a lot of ourselves, and so this equation usually totals up to more than what we actually are.  However, in the aftermath of a great disaster, the error is usually discovered.  We reduce and simplify the equation, in human fashion, that is to say, to the extreme.  Our equation is then less than our actuality ... which is also to say that our actuality is then more than our equation.  Existing now well beyond our own definitions, we become the objects of our own wonder, so how could we then settle for such a small, inadequate equation of ourselves?  The equation expands.




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