SLOTH

SLOTH 290801 0734 I LIKE SLOW. 030901 0058 Since youth I have called myself as lover the slowest hand in the west. i think some people dont get it, not touching slow, and therefore being bad lovers, or unable to touch at all --- healthy people touch slowly. There is a skill of suspension of movement in progress, whatever one is doing 8altho not in every operation, of course9, but typing too fast for ones capacity leds to errors like these. I love the movements also of the gibbon, its grace in the sense I just now considered. You see, to give you that succinct word, which saves yo utime, I paused to let myself consider. And as we talk, altho we now are not talking, we hear in echo what we say, are about to say, have said, and even in reverberation --- this is basic to good acting, for example. I suggest some people maybe have difficulty psychologically in just precisely this matter, perhaps from early childhood being rushed in by hysterics (people who cannot control their pace).

120901 2108 Airline safety needs the sloth as role model; not in the sense commonly intended (meaning messyness etc), but in the sense of deliberation --- the same “scripting” operative in rush-hour herd behavior turning folks into hippos unsafe at any speed, is institutionalized when the airline has to decide where to spend money and how to pander to the cheapness of potential customers. We say “greed” --- but it is not that: it is myopia: the catastrophe yesterday (you surely know (even if you are reading this a century in the future) what happened yesterday) did not contribute to wealth.

130901 2248 Indeed, a friend told me that his adviser at Harvard said that the purpose of a college education is to teach one to sustain ambiguities. This sounds valid and also very like a sloth --- indeed, i note in friends who lack education, the very inability , or lack of habit, of so seeing wide and considering circumspect etc; they barge ahead and trample the seedlings and tread on mines to rush to grab booby-traps.

2307 Philosophy is the art of thinking slowly.

061001 2008 Sloth constructively construed includes avoiding jumping to conclusions, as well as learning how to sustain ambiguities --- sort of asking oneself what else, or RFK not going back via the infamous kitchen (there seems to be something in male USA politicians that leads them away from circumspection --- sort of a rutting bull complex). Especially when tired; there should be a profession of Slothists, to admonish against dangerous haste especially when exhaustion etc makes leaders susceptible to Sirhan or Monica (Clinton´s mother had recently died).