The activity of doing your own mental work is often the worthier part of any intellectual pursuit. It is in this process of doing that we develop our personal abilities and independent insights. For this, there is no possible replacement.
The activity of doing your own mental work is often the worthier part of any intellectual pursuit. It is in this process of doing that we develop our personal abilities and independent insights. For this, there is no possible replacement.
Whence cometh the experts expertise? They had to do the work to get there.
I can, and I do benefit from other people’s skills and efforts. That is the content of society.
Our culture trains us to value only the output of our work and regard the process as nothing but liability—but for the results, an abject waste of time and resources. And so, the masters of our society attempt to eliminate every expenditure that does not yield an immediate return. So they extinguish the light of human culture, which is the expression of our creative activities.