A QUESTION FROM OTHERWISE · VOLUME I + II
Can a useful idea become dangerous because it works?
The ideas most likely to acquire authority are often the ones that genuinely help. Usefulness creates repetition; repetition creates vocabulary; vocabulary creates insiders; insiders eventually acquire reasons to preserve the frame.
Keep asking what the tool must never be allowed to decide merely because it has been useful elsewhere.
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