LOTS of excellent, thoughtful comment on my current NRO piece about the
importantce of not thinking too much. It is hard to pick out the best from
such a good bunch, but this one I particularly liked, from a NCATWHIWTHHNUON
reader (no clue at to whether he is willing to have his name used or not):
“Derb: As the foundations of math were questioned, the crisis was at a peak
in ‘31. We would still be searching for the foundations of math today, but
Godel proved they could not be found. It wasn’t like the ‘fundamentalists’
just gave up the ghost willingly. Godel destroyed them. The idea that ‘we
shall come to our senses and stop trying to analyze and deconstruct our
society down to the bitter end’ will never happen unless someone or
something (like Godel) kills the opposition (or the opposition destroys
itself by violating natural law one too many times). Just don’t bet on the
’fading away’ theory. It didn’t happen in mathematics. It won’t happen in
Western society, either. Wars don’t end that way.”