It’s Sunday. It’s quiet. I’ll just clear the decks of my philosophy faux-infographics jokes. It’s not just trolleys. Some months back I considered it seriously:
“Nietzsche’s key design insight: complex, esoteric ideas, appreciable only by the few — perhaps only by the One! — can be conveyed via simple, conventionalised iconography, suitable for delivering simple, readily understandable ideas to the many.
Naturally, as this insight made no sense, no one had any notion what Nietzsche was on about …”
But that’s no reason why it didn’t happen!
I’m a genius, admit it!
{ 4 comments }
MisterMr 07.16.23 at 6:28 am
But where are the blonde beasts in this scheme?
I ressent the absence of blonde beasts, or at least wigs.
John Holbo 07.16.23 at 6:59 am
The blonde beasts are there! What I actually left out that definitely should be in there is the science. Not just the workers and solders. I needed, like, some test tubes.
MisterMr 07.16.23 at 10:28 pm
I see some people fighting each other in 400 b.c., but they don’t look blonde (ok the ones with the horns might be).
Steven t johnson 07.17.23 at 3:40 am
I read some Nietzsche once
In memory it feels very much like reading
Lyn Marcus aka Lyndon Latouche.
Comments on this entry are closed.