"If a society requires excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it's an exalted activity, it will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy, neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water"
-John Gardner
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So what you are saying is we can't think and we are swimming in poop?
Perhaps we are.
I'd take good plumbing over philosophy any day of the week!
Humble!? The plumber charges a lot more by the hour than the philosopher! ;)
herobill,
I guess plumbers charge more than philosophers because of the old "supply and demand" theory.
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