Linked by Emmanuel Marty on Mon 5th Aug 2002 05:58 UTC
I've always been curious about how things work. When I was little, I annoyed my parents with millions of
questions. Why is the sky blue? How does water come out of the tap when you open it? Maybe I was born without the
mental switch that lets you be happy with using something, without trying to figure out how it works.
Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Perhaps there is something deeper than just education, entertainment, and extra thin crust pizza?
You've felt it all your life. Your sense of powerlessness. It is what drives you to create your own operating system. So you can be in control. Or more likely, so you can feel like you are in control.
For a moment when your creation is running -- living -- you feel a sense of power, of freedom. You are building something free from the fetters of the outside world.
You have to put your creation aside, yet you long for that feeling. You create reasons to go back to your creation. Oh yes, the mind can create story. Humans have no shortage of "reasons". Untrained minds can't live without them.
Follow the white rabbit.
#m