Happy birthday anniversary, Bertrand Russell. You don't look 150 (well, yes, you sorta do)

[Darah Kehnemuyi]

 One of my favorite poems... The Second Coming ... And what rough beast, its hour come at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born.As for Russell, Principia Mathematica was a solid work in its time.                D.
    On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 07:16:35 AM EDT, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 That's a prose version of Yeat's great poetic lines. 
"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity."

As Ludwig Wittgenstein told "Mad Dog" ---that's an Against the Day allusion--Bertie, after he, Bertie, got Cambridge to give him a PhDdespite Ludwig refusing to follow the rules, even take the orals, "Russell, you STILL don't understand my work!"....      Bertie, second-hand thief....poor Bertie, who never got his emotions and mind in sync.....


On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 7:05 AM Darah Kehnemuyi <darahk1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

 "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."  Bertrand Russell

    On Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 05:38:58 AM EDT, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to
make it precise." Precisely.
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