The media are going bananas over the Government’s under-estimate of the number of east European immigrants..but we love the pretty Polish girls in our local coffee shops don’t we, hey? (And the Treasury can’t get enough of their contribution to the UK’s economic growth in 2005 & 2006).We want to have our cake, and eat it!
Taking a bite out of the world’s largest cake at the 2005 Las Vegas Centennial.
I thought Clay Shirky’s Spring 2005 article of this name (
) was worth reading, if only to come to this choice section:
“It comes down ultimately to a question of philosophy. Does the world make sense or do we make sense of the world? If you believe the world makes sense, then anyone who tries to make sense of the world differently than you is presenting you with a situation that needs to be reconciled formally, because if you get it wrong, you’re getting it wrong about the real world.
“If, on the other hand, you believe that we make sense of the world, if we are, from a bunch of different points of view, applying some kind of sense to the world, then you don’t privilege one top level of sense-making over the other. What you do instead is you try to find ways that the individual sense-making can roll up to something which is of value in aggregate, but you do it without an ontological goal. You do it without a goal of explicitly getting to or even closely matching some theoretically perfect view of the world.”