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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 20:58 UTC

Differences between nations, so long as they do not lead to hostility, are by no means to be deplored. Living for a time in a foreign country makes us aware of merits in which our own country is deficient, and this is true whichever country our own may be. The same thing holds of differences between different regions within one country, and of the differing types produced by different professions. Uniformity of character and uniformity of culture are to be regretted. Biological evolution has depended upon inborn differences between individuals or tribes, and cultural evolution depends upon acquired differences. When these disappear, there is no longer any material for selection. In the modern world, there is a real danger of too great similarity between one region and another in cultural respects. One of the best ways of minimising this evil is an increase in the autonomy of different groups.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-23), “Control and Initiative: Their Respective Spheres,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 5, BBC Radio

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/840…

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 20:58 UTC

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

Differences between nations, so long as they do not lead to hostility, are by no means to be deplored. Living for a time in a foreign country makes us aware of merits in which our own country is deficient, and this is true whichever country our own may be. The same thing holds of differences between different regions within one country, and of the differing types produced by different professions. Uniformity of character and uniformity of culture are to be regretted. Biological evolution has depended upon inborn differences between individuals or tribes, and cultural evolution depends upon acquired differences. When these disappear, there is no longer any material for selection. In the modern world, there is a real danger of too great similarity between one region and another in cultural respects. One of the best ways of minimising this evil is an increase in the autonomy of different groups.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-23), “Control and Initiative: Their Respective Spheres,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 5, BBC Radio

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/840…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #autonomy #culture #difference #diversity #evolution #nations #regions #similarity #uniformity #variety

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 20:58 UTC

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

Differences between nations, so long as they do not lead to hostility, are by no means to be deplored. Living for a time in a foreign country makes us aware of merits in which our own country is deficient, and this is true whichever country our own may be. The same thing holds of differences between different regions within one country, and of the differing types produced by different professions. Uniformity of character and uniformity of culture are to be regretted. Biological evolution has depended upon inborn differences between individuals or tribes, and cultural evolution depends upon acquired differences. When these disappear, there is no longer any material for selection. In the modern world, there is a real danger of too great similarity between one region and another in cultural respects. One of the best ways of minimising this evil is an increase in the autonomy of different groups.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-23), “Control and Initiative: Their Respective Spheres,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 5, BBC Radio

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/840…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #autonomy #culture #difference #diversity #evolution #nations #regions #similarity #uniformity #variety

#evolution #culture #quote #diversity #regions #quotes

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 20:58 UTC

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

Differences between nations, so long as they do not lead to hostility, are by no means to be deplored. Living for a time in a foreign country makes us aware of merits in which our own country is deficient, and this is true whichever country our own may be. The same thing holds of differences between different regions within one country, and of the differing types produced by different professions. Uniformity of character and uniformity of culture are to be regretted. Biological evolution has depended upon inborn differences between individuals or tribes, and cultural evolution depends upon acquired differences. When these disappear, there is no longer any material for selection. In the modern world, there is a real danger of too great similarity between one region and another in cultural respects. One of the best ways of minimising this evil is an increase in the autonomy of different groups.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-23), “Control and Initiative: Their Respective Spheres,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 5, BBC Radio

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/840…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #autonomy #culture #difference #diversity #evolution #nations #regions #similarity #uniformity #variety

#similarity #uniformity #variety #difference #nations #autonomy

Tim Chase @[email protected] · 2026-03-30 · 17:53 UTC

Just read an article¹ lamenting the uniformity of user-interfaces

> Where’d the variety go?!

I've lived through the variety. The Kai's Power Tools that didn't follow any of the user-interface guidelines for a platform. The Adobe Flash days where UI controls failed to behave like system ones (oh, you expect the scroll-wheel to work in this scrolled Flash control?). Software using non-standard controls that accessibility tools couldn't manipulate.

For a brief glimmer, the web offered that. You put a <button> element in there and it looked like every other button your OS showed you. You used a drop-down, it behaved exactly like every other drop-down in the operating system. It worked in dozens of different browsers from command-line lynx/links/w3m, to DOS graphical browsers like Arachne, to outdated browsers like Netscape and IE, to lightweight graphical browsers like Dillo, to the most modern web-browser engines. Sites respected the preferences for font-face, font-size, text color, etc that I set in my browser's configuration.

But then the Variety folks got hold of it. They wanted custom buttons that looked nothing like system buttons. They used links as buttons. They broke keyboard searching of drop-downs. They overrode how things scrolled. They changed how menus presented and behaved.

To which I say no.

I **want** uniformity. I **want** to apply all the knowledge I have regarding how other things work to know how this new thing works.

So please give me #uniformity, not cognitive load.

⸻
¹ https://jordanreger.com/blog/ui-conformity/

#uniformity

Tim Chase @[email protected] · 2026-03-30 · 17:53 UTC

Just read an article¹ lamenting the uniformity of user-interfaces

> Where’d the variety go?!

I've lived through the variety. The Kai's Power Tools that didn't follow any of the user-interface guidelines for a platform. The Adobe Flash days where UI controls failed to behave like system ones (oh, you expect the scroll-wheel to work in this scrolled Flash control?). Software using non-standard controls that accessibility tools couldn't manipulate.

For a brief glimmer, the web offered that. You put a <button> element in there and it looked like every other button your OS showed you. You used a drop-down, it behaved exactly like every other drop-down in the operating system. It worked in dozens of different browsers from command-line lynx/links/w3m, to DOS graphical browsers like Arachne, to outdated browsers like Netscape and IE, to lightweight graphical browsers like Dillo, to the most modern web-browser engines. Sites respected the preferences for font-face, font-size, text color, etc that I set in my browser's configuration.

But then the Variety folks got hold of it. They wanted custom buttons that looked nothing like system buttons. They used links as buttons. They broke keyboard searching of drop-downs. They overrode how things scrolled. They changed how menus presented and behaved.

To which I say no.

I **want** uniformity. I **want** to apply all the knowledge I have regarding how other things work to know how this new thing works.

So please give me #uniformity, not cognitive load.

⸻
¹ https://jordanreger.com/blog/ui-conformity/

#uniformity

Tim Chase @[email protected] · 2026-03-30 · 17:53 UTC

Just read an article¹ lamenting the uniformity of user-interfaces

> Where’d the variety go?!

I've lived through the variety. The Kai's Power Tools that didn't follow any of the user-interface guidelines for a platform. The Adobe Flash days where UI controls failed to behave like system ones (oh, you expect the scroll-wheel to work in this scrolled Flash control?). Software using non-standard controls that accessibility tools couldn't manipulate.

For a brief glimmer, the web offered that. You put a <button> element in there and it looked like every other button your OS showed you. You used a drop-down, it behaved exactly like every other drop-down in the operating system. It worked in dozens of different browsers from command-line lynx/links/w3m, to DOS graphical browsers like Arachne, to outdated browsers like Netscape and IE, to lightweight graphical browsers like Dillo, to the most modern web-browser engines. Sites respected the preferences for font-face, font-size, text color, etc that I set in my browser's configuration.

But then the Variety folks got hold of it. They wanted custom buttons that looked nothing like system buttons. They used links as buttons. They broke keyboard searching of drop-downs. They overrode how things scrolled. They changed how menus presented and behaved.

To which I say no.

I **want** uniformity. I **want** to apply all the knowledge I have regarding how other things work to know how this new thing works.

So please give me #uniformity, not cognitive load.

⸻
¹ https://jordanreger.com/blog/ui-conformity/

#uniformity

Tim Chase @[email protected] · 2026-03-30 · 17:53 UTC

Just read an article¹ lamenting the uniformity of user-interfaces

> Where’d the variety go?!

I've lived through the variety. The Kai's Power Tools that didn't follow any of the user-interface guidelines for a platform. The Adobe Flash days where UI controls failed to behave like system ones (oh, you expect the scroll-wheel to work in this scrolled Flash control?). Software using non-standard controls that accessibility tools couldn't manipulate.

For a brief glimmer, the web offered that. You put a <button> element in there and it looked like every other button your OS showed you. You used a drop-down, it behaved exactly like every other drop-down in the operating system. It worked in dozens of different browsers from command-line lynx/links/w3m, to DOS graphical browsers like Arachne, to outdated browsers like Netscape and IE, to lightweight graphical browsers like Dillo, to the most modern web-browser engines. Sites respected the preferences for font-face, font-size, text color, etc that I set in my browser's configuration.

But then the Variety folks got hold of it. They wanted custom buttons that looked nothing like system buttons. They used links as buttons. They broke keyboard searching of drop-downs. They overrode how things scrolled. They changed how menus presented and behaved.

To which I say no.

I **want** uniformity. I **want** to apply all the knowledge I have regarding how other things work to know how this new thing works.

So please give me #uniformity, not cognitive load.

⸻
¹ https://jordanreger.com/blog/ui-conformity/

#uniformity

Tim Chase @[email protected] · 2026-03-30 · 17:53 UTC

Just read an article¹ lamenting the uniformity of user-interfaces

> Where’d the variety go?!

I've lived through the variety. The Kai's Power Tools that didn't follow any of the user-interface guidelines for a platform. The Adobe Flash days where UI controls failed to behave like system ones (oh, you expect the scroll-wheel to work in this scrolled Flash control?). Software using non-standard controls that accessibility tools couldn't manipulate.

For a brief glimmer, the web offered that. You put a <button> element in there and it looked like every other button your OS showed you. You used a drop-down, it behaved exactly like every other drop-down in the operating system. It worked in dozens of different browsers from command-line lynx/links/w3m, to DOS graphical browsers like Arachne, to outdated browsers like Netscape and IE, to lightweight graphical browsers like Dillo, to the most modern web-browser engines. Sites respected the preferences for font-face, font-size, text color, etc that I set in my browser's configuration.

But then the Variety folks got hold of it. They wanted custom buttons that looked nothing like system buttons. They used links as buttons. They broke keyboard searching of drop-downs. They overrode how things scrolled. They changed how menus presented and behaved.

To which I say no.

I **want** uniformity. I **want** to apply all the knowledge I have regarding how other things work to know how this new thing works.

So please give me #uniformity, not cognitive load.

⸻
¹ https://jordanreger.com/blog/ui-conformity/

#uniformity

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2026-03-21 · 13:00 UTC

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

------------

Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2026-03-21 · 13:00 UTC

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

------------

Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2026-03-21 · 13:00 UTC

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

------------

Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2026-03-21 · 13:00 UTC

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

------------

Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2026-03-21 · 13:00 UTC

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

------------

Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity

John Griogair Bell @[email protected] · 2026-02-26 · 14:27 UTC

“Know then, o my Son, that all Laws, all Systems, all Customs, all Ideals and Standards which tend to produce Uniformity, being in direct Opposition to Nature’s Will to change and to develop through Variety, are accursèd. Do thou with all thy Might of Manhood strive against these Forces, for they resist Change, which is Life; and thus they are of Death.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/02/26/know-then-o-my-son-that-all-laws-all-systems-all-customs-all-ideals-and-standards-which-tend-to-produce-uniformity-being-in-direct-opposition-to-natures-will-to-change-and-to-develop/ #accursed #against #aleisterCrowley #allCustoms #allIdeals #allLaws #allSystems #book #book111 #change #death #develop #directOpposition #forces #know #liberAleph #liberCxi #Liberא #life #manhood #might #natureSWill #produce #quote #resistChange #son #standards #strive #tendTo #TheBookOfWisdomOrFolly #uniformity #variety #withAll

#accursed #against #aleistercrowley #allcustoms #allideals #alllaws

Inautilo @[email protected] · 2025-12-15 · 18:05 UTC

#Design #Approaches
Design your website like a nice restaurant · “Don’t be afraid to leave an impression.” https://ilo.im/168l50

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#Ambiance #Personality #Conformity #Uniformity #Usability #VisualLanguage #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

#design #approaches #ambiance #personality #conformity #uniformity

Inautilo @[email protected] · 2025-12-15 · 18:05 UTC

#Design #Approaches
Design your website like a nice restaurant · “Don’t be afraid to leave an impression.” https://ilo.im/168l50

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#Ambiance #Personality #Conformity #Uniformity #Usability #VisualLanguage #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

#design #approaches #ambiance #personality #conformity #uniformity

Inautilo @[email protected] · 2025-12-15 · 18:05 UTC

#Design #Approaches
Design your website like a nice restaurant · “Don’t be afraid to leave an impression.” https://ilo.im/168l50

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#Ambiance #Personality #Conformity #Uniformity #Usability #VisualLanguage #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

#webdesign #uidesign #uxdesign #productdesign #visuallanguage #usability

Inautilo @[email protected] · 2025-12-15 · 18:05 UTC

#Design #Approaches
Design your website like a nice restaurant · “Don’t be afraid to leave an impression.” https://ilo.im/168l50

_____
#Ambiance #Personality #Conformity #Uniformity #Usability #VisualLanguage #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

#design #approaches #ambiance #personality #conformity #uniformity

Paul L @[email protected] · 2025-12-12 · 12:40 UTC

@CultureDesk @THR indeed this is a big move.
It will make #genAI-produced things even more #mainstreammedia . I am sure this will contribute to more undesirable #uniformity...

#genai #mainstreammedia #uniformity

Paul L @[email protected] · 2025-12-12 · 12:40 UTC

@CultureDesk @THR indeed this is a big move.
It will make #genAI-produced things even more #mainstreammedia . I am sure this will contribute to more undesirable #uniformity...

#genai #mainstreammedia #uniformity

Paul L @[email protected] · 2025-12-12 · 12:40 UTC

@CultureDesk @THR indeed this is a big move.
It will make #genAI-produced things even more #mainstreammedia . I am sure this will contribute to more undesirable #uniformity...

#genai #mainstreammedia #uniformity

Paul L @[email protected] · 2025-12-12 · 12:40 UTC

@CultureDesk @THR indeed this is a big move.
It will make #genAI-produced things even more #mainstreammedia . I am sure this will contribute to more undesirable #uniformity...

#uniformity #mainstreammedia #genai

Inautilo @[email protected] · 2025-11-19 · 13:38 UTC

#Design #Challenges
In the sea of sameness · Let’s find ways to make designs more authentic! https://ilo.im/168jcw

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#Craft #Authenticity #Creativity #Uniformity #Workflows #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Trends

#design #challenges #craft #authenticity #creativity #uniformity

Inautilo @[email protected] · 2025-11-19 · 13:38 UTC

#Design #Challenges
In the sea of sameness · Let’s find ways to make designs more authentic! https://ilo.im/168jcw

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#Craft #Authenticity #Creativity #Uniformity #Workflows #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Trends

#design #challenges #craft #authenticity #creativity #uniformity

Inautilo @[email protected] · 2025-11-19 · 13:38 UTC

#Design #Challenges
In the sea of sameness · Let’s find ways to make designs more authentic! https://ilo.im/168jcw

_____
#Craft #Authenticity #Creativity #Uniformity #Workflows #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Trends

#trends #webdesign #uidesign #uxdesign #productdesign #workflows

Inautilo @[email protected] · 2025-11-19 · 13:38 UTC

#Design #Challenges
In the sea of sameness · Let’s find ways to make designs more authentic! https://ilo.im/168jcw

_____
#Craft #Authenticity #Creativity #Uniformity #Workflows #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Trends

#design #challenges #craft #authenticity #creativity #uniformity

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2025-11-16 · 13:00 UTC

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

------------

Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2025-11-16 · 13:00 UTC

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

------------

Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2025-11-16 · 13:00 UTC

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

------------

Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2025-11-16 · 13:00 UTC

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

------------

Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity

Inautilo @[email protected] · 2025-10-26 · 01:05 UTC

#Design #Trends
The web has gone grey · Let’s make the web a more colorful space! https://ilo.im/167ry2

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#Uniformity #Greyscales #Colors #Websites #Blogs #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #VisualDesign #WebDesign

#design #trends #uniformity #greyscales #colors #websites

Inautilo @[email protected] · 2025-10-26 · 01:05 UTC

#Design #Trends
The web has gone grey · Let’s make the web a more colorful space! https://ilo.im/167ry2

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#Uniformity #Greyscales #Colors #Websites #Blogs #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #VisualDesign #WebDesign

#design #trends #uniformity #greyscales #colors #websites

Inautilo @[email protected] · 2025-10-26 · 01:05 UTC

#Design #Trends
The web has gone grey · Let’s make the web a more colorful space! https://ilo.im/167ry2

_____
#Uniformity #Greyscales #Colors #Websites #Blogs #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #VisualDesign #WebDesign

#webdesign #visualdesign #uidesign #uxdesign #productdesign #blogs

Inautilo @[email protected] · 2025-10-26 · 01:05 UTC

#Design #Trends
The web has gone grey · Let’s make the web a more colorful space! https://ilo.im/167ry2

_____
#Uniformity #Greyscales #Colors #Websites #Blogs #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #VisualDesign #WebDesign

#design #trends #uniformity #greyscales #colors #websites

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2025-09-25 · 16:12 UTC

🚀👨‍💻 Breaking news: The Element team has finally synchronized their apps for a user experience only a designer could love. 🤔✨ Now your Web and Desktop apps can be as "Element X" chic as your mobile - because who doesn't want #uniformity in their tediously boring productivity tools? 🙄🔧
https://element.io/blog/new-element-web-and-desktop-apps-have-distinct-element-x-vibes/ #ElementX #UserExperience #ProductivityTools #DesignChic #HackerNews #ngated

#uniformity #elementx #userexperience #productivitytools #designchic #hackernews

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2025-09-25 · 16:12 UTC

🚀👨‍💻 Breaking news: The Element team has finally synchronized their apps for a user experience only a designer could love. 🤔✨ Now your Web and Desktop apps can be as "Element X" chic as your mobile - because who doesn't want #uniformity in their tediously boring productivity tools? 🙄🔧
https://element.io/blog/new-element-web-and-desktop-apps-have-distinct-element-x-vibes/ #ElementX #UserExperience #ProductivityTools #DesignChic #HackerNews #ngated

#uniformity #elementx #userexperience #productivitytools #designchic #hackernews

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2025-09-25 · 16:12 UTC

🚀👨‍💻 Breaking news: The Element team has finally synchronized their apps for a user experience only a designer could love. 🤔✨ Now your Web and Desktop apps can be as "Element X" chic as your mobile - because who doesn't want #uniformity in their tediously boring productivity tools? 🙄🔧
https://element.io/blog/new-element-web-and-desktop-apps-have-distinct-element-x-vibes/ #ElementX #UserExperience #ProductivityTools #DesignChic #HackerNews #ngated

#ngated #hackernews #designchic #productivitytools #userexperience #elementx

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2025-09-25 · 16:12 UTC

🚀👨‍💻 Breaking news: The Element team has finally synchronized their apps for a user experience only a designer could love. 🤔✨ Now your Web and Desktop apps can be as "Element X" chic as your mobile - because who doesn't want #uniformity in their tediously boring productivity tools? 🙄🔧
https://element.io/blog/new-element-web-and-desktop-apps-have-distinct-element-x-vibes/ #ElementX #UserExperience #ProductivityTools #DesignChic #HackerNews #ngated

#uniformity #elementx #userexperience #productivitytools #designchic #hackernews

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2025-07-14 · 13:00 UTC

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

------------

Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2025-07-14 · 13:00 UTC

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

------------

Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2025-07-14 · 13:00 UTC

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

------------

Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity

WordofTheHour @[email protected] · 2025-07-14 · 13:00 UTC

#uniformity : resemblance to itself at all times

- German: die Einförmigkeit

- Italian: uniformità

- Portuguese: uniformidade

- Spanish: uniformidad

------------

Thank you so much for being a member of our community!

#uniformity

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-05-30 · 19:00 UTC

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

On every hand are the enemies of individuality and mental freedom. Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. Our first questions are answered by ignorance, and our last by superstition. We are pushed and dragged by countless hands along the beaten track, and our entire training can be summed up in the word –suppression. Our desire to have a thing or to do a thing is considered as conclusive evidence that we ought not to have it, and ought not to do it. At every turn we run against cherubim and a flaming sword guarding some entrance to the Eden of our desire. We are allowed to investigate all subjects in which we feel no particular interest, and to express the opinions of the majority with the utmost freedom. We are taught that liberty of speech should never be carried to the extent of contradicting the dead witnesses of a popular superstition. Society offers continual rewards for self-betrayal, and they are nearly all earned and claimed, and some are paid.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious Society

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #uniformity #religiousintolerance #conformity #groupthink #intolerance #orthodoxy #regulation #religion #selfbetrayal #society #suppression #tyrannyofthemajority

#quotes #quote #religion #intolerance #suppression #regulation

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-05-30 · 19:00 UTC

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

On every hand are the enemies of individuality and mental freedom. Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. Our first questions are answered by ignorance, and our last by superstition. We are pushed and dragged by countless hands along the beaten track, and our entire training can be summed up in the word –suppression. Our desire to have a thing or to do a thing is considered as conclusive evidence that we ought not to have it, and ought not to do it. At every turn we run against cherubim and a flaming sword guarding some entrance to the Eden of our desire. We are allowed to investigate all subjects in which we feel no particular interest, and to express the opinions of the majority with the utmost freedom. We are taught that liberty of speech should never be carried to the extent of contradicting the dead witnesses of a popular superstition. Society offers continual rewards for self-betrayal, and they are nearly all earned and claimed, and some are paid.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious Society

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #uniformity #religiousintolerance #conformity #groupthink #intolerance #orthodoxy #regulation #religion #selfbetrayal #society #suppression #tyrannyofthemajority

#quotes #quote #religion #intolerance #suppression #regulation

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-05-30 · 19:00 UTC

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

On every hand are the enemies of individuality and mental freedom. Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. Our first questions are answered by ignorance, and our last by superstition. We are pushed and dragged by countless hands along the beaten track, and our entire training can be summed up in the word –suppression. Our desire to have a thing or to do a thing is considered as conclusive evidence that we ought not to have it, and ought not to do it. At every turn we run against cherubim and a flaming sword guarding some entrance to the Eden of our desire. We are allowed to investigate all subjects in which we feel no particular interest, and to express the opinions of the majority with the utmost freedom. We are taught that liberty of speech should never be carried to the extent of contradicting the dead witnesses of a popular superstition. Society offers continual rewards for self-betrayal, and they are nearly all earned and claimed, and some are paid.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious Society

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Friedrich Wilhelm Grafe @[email protected] · 2025-04-27 · 07:55 UTC

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in a way:
with scientific, else technological predictions [deterministic or probabilistic ones] we rely on kind of an assumption of the #uniformity of nature [again: in a deterministic or in a probabilistic coining] .

perhaps the first, who prominently challenged such presupposition, was C.S. #Peirce. shortcut -> in suggesting that such uniformity - as far as it exists at all - might better be ranked as a spatiotemporally local phenomenon.

[may be astrophysics have a share here ... ask the experts ...]

already for this faint(?) possibility [that uniformity might deform as time goes by, and/or as distances increase] it might seem good style to cultivate and support #plurality of theories and explanations, viz. as a #resilience factor.

#uniformity #plurality #resilience #peirce

Friedrich Wilhelm Grafe @[email protected] · 2025-04-27 · 07:55 UTC

CW: #WordSalad /2 [ turns flooded ]

in a way:
with scientific, else technological predictions [deterministic or probabilistic ones] we rely on kind of an assumption of the #uniformity of nature [again: in a deterministic or in a probabilistic coining] .

perhaps the first, who prominently challenged such presupposition, was C.S. #Peirce. shortcut -> in suggesting that such uniformity - as far as it exists at all - might better be ranked as a spatiotemporally local phenomenon.

[may be astrophysics have a share here ... ask the experts ...]

already for this faint(?) possibility [that uniformity might deform as time goes by, and/or as distances increase] it might seem good style to cultivate and support #plurality of theories and explanations, viz. as a #resilience factor.

#peirce #uniformity #plurality #resilience

Friedrich Wilhelm Grafe @[email protected] · 2025-04-27 · 07:55 UTC

CW: #WordSalad /2 [ turns flooded ]

in a way:
with scientific, else technological predictions [deterministic or probabilistic ones] we rely on kind of an assumption of the #uniformity of nature [again: in a deterministic or in a probabilistic coining] .

perhaps the first, who prominently challenged such presupposition, was C.S. #Peirce. shortcut -> in suggesting that such uniformity - as far as it exists at all - might better be ranked as a spatiotemporally local phenomenon.

[may be astrophysics have a share here ... ask the experts ...]

already for this faint(?) possibility [that uniformity might deform as time goes by, and/or as distances increase] it might seem good style to cultivate and support #plurality of theories and explanations, viz. as a #resilience factor.

#uniformity #plurality #resilience #peirce

Friedrich Wilhelm Grafe @[email protected] · 2025-04-27 · 07:55 UTC

CW: #WordSalad /2 [ turns flooded ]

in a way:
with scientific, else technological predictions [deterministic or probabilistic ones] we rely on kind of an assumption of the #uniformity of nature [again: in a deterministic or in a probabilistic coining] .

perhaps the first, who prominently challenged such presupposition, was C.S. #Peirce. shortcut -> in suggesting that such uniformity - as far as it exists at all - might better be ranked as a spatiotemporally local phenomenon.

[may be astrophysics have a share here ... ask the experts ...]

already for this faint(?) possibility [that uniformity might deform as time goes by, and/or as distances increase] it might seem good style to cultivate and support #plurality of theories and explanations, viz. as a #resilience factor.

#peirce #resilience #plurality #uniformity

Friedrich Wilhelm Grafe @[email protected] · 2025-04-27 · 07:55 UTC

CW: #WordSalad /2 [ turns flooded ]

in a way:
with scientific, else technological predictions [deterministic or probabilistic ones] we rely on kind of an assumption of the #uniformity of nature [again: in a deterministic or in a probabilistic coining] .

perhaps the first, who prominently challenged such presupposition, was C.S. #Peirce. shortcut -> in suggesting that such uniformity - as far as it exists at all - might better be ranked as a spatiotemporally local phenomenon.

[may be astrophysics have a share here ... ask the experts ...]

already for this faint(?) possibility [that uniformity might deform as time goes by, and/or as distances increase] it might seem good style to cultivate and support #plurality of theories and explanations, viz. as a #resilience factor.

#uniformity #plurality #resilience #peirce