People that give advice and technical value are the people we need. People crowding the distribution pipe and trying to ignore fans and artists have no value. This is a perfect system. Jon Radoff, the CTO and co-founder of Web site content management company Eprise. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
The rise of deeply paranoid or supernatural preoccupations in our culture, whether they're over spontaneous human combustion, chain letters, or the aliens on The X-Files , results from our unwillingness to embrace the technologies and abilities we have already developed. When we negate their intrinsic empowerment and retreat from the overwhelming moral conundrums they impose, we fall into hopelessness, paranoia, and delusion. We have trained ourselves over centuries to relinquish our access to technology and entrust our spiritual dilemmas to elites who supposedly know better. As presidents resign and priests abuse children, we become aware that these elites are no better prepared than we to tackle the future. This forces us to face the inevitable.