# locke (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover locke. Page: Feed: --- ## [(untitled)](https://philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2026/08/random-quote-museums-function-like.html) _2026-08-19 · HbdW · Philosophy by the Way_ Random quote Museums function like homes of the nobility to which the public at certain hours are admitted as visitors. The class nature of the ‘nobility’ may vary, but as soon as a work is placed in a museum it acquires the mystery of a way of life which excludes the mass. John Berger, photographer (1926-2017) ## [Causation in action](https://philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2026/08/causation-in-action.html) _2026-08-16 · HbdW · Philosophy by the Way_ Taken by me at the Strassenindustriemuseum-in Ennepetal, Germany We have seen in my blog last week that causation is not only in the mind, as Hume thought, but that it is also something real. Moreover, according to Hume, causation requires repeated observations of correlations among events. This would exclude the possibility of causes that occur only once. However, we have seen that the Belgian… ## [Capriciously Categorical: On Plagiarism](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/08/capriciously-categorical-on-plagiarism.html) _2026-08-16 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ I have often found Charles Mills' distinction between de jure and de facto racism to be heuristically useful if not not explanatory. It is one of the great merits of The Racial Contract to be an incredibly teachable book, it fits incredibly well in political theory class that has covered Hobbes, Locke, and/or Rousseau, with perhaps some Marx and Machiavelli, putting the very idea of a social… ## [We Think in Society: Notes on the Destruction of Colllective Intelligence](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/08/we-think-in-society-notes-on.html) _2026-08-13 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ Dinosaur left over from a miniature golf course in Florida. I find myself coming back to one central question, that is at once political and philosophical. Previously on this blog I referred to the political dimension of this transformation as the constitution of a new episteme, a new standard for what counts as truth. This new standard appears primarily as the destruction of the old standards, as… ## [(untitled)](https://philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2026/08/random-quote-they-say-that-everyone.html) _2026-08-12 · HbdW · Philosophy by the Way_ Random quote \[T\]hey say that everyone should claim to be just, regardless of whether they are or are not, and anyone who is not pretending to be just is insane, because it is necessary for everyone to share in it in some way or other if they are to live with their fellow men. Protagoras van Abdera (c. 490-420 BC) in Plato, Protagoras , 323 b-c ## [The illusion of causation](https://philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-illusion-of-causation.html) _2026-08-09 · HbdW · Philosophy by the Way_ Taken by me at the Strassenindustriemuseum-in Ennepetal, Germany Causation is only in the mind. That is what Hume thinks, as we have seen in my blog three weeks ago . As Hume states (see my blog): “When we say … that one object is connected with another, we mean only, that they have acquired a connexion in our thought…” and we have no idea, whether in reality such a connection is a causal one or… ## [(untitled)](https://philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2026/08/random-quote-philosopher-is-always-so.html) _2026-08-05 · HbdW · Philosophy by the Way_ Random quote \[T\]he philosopher … is always, so far as he is able, in communion through memory with those things the communion with which causes God to be divine. Now a man who employs such memories rightly is always being initiated into perfect mysteries and he alone becomes truly perfect; but since he separates himself from human interests and turns his attention toward the divine, he is rebuked… ## [Popular Down the Hall, Part II](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/08/popular-down-hall-part-ii.html) _2026-08-05 · George · 20011_ Sunday's New York Times Book Review included a review by Clancy Martin of Emily Eakin's The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory , a book on the French postmodernists. I was interested to read Martin's personal take. He had dropped out of a graduate program in philosophy at the University of Texas, defeated by the emphasis on the postmodernists. After a few years away, having done his best to read… ## [The bandwagon effect](https://philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-bandwagon-effect.html) _2026-08-02 · HbdW · Philosophy by the Way_ Barrel Organ "The Arab", once the most famous barrel organ in the Netherlands Photo taken by me in the Museum Speelklok, Utrecht, NL A bandwagon is a decorated wagon that carries a musical ensemble or band in a parade or other entertainment event. I think – but I am not sure – that it is a typical American phenomenon, although you find decorated wagons carrying a musical ensemble also during… ## [Which Would Have Startled Dr. Graham](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/08/which-would-have-startled-dr-graham.html) _2026-08-02 · George · 20011_ In Chapter XXIX of Two Years Before the Mast Dana wrote of a time of hard physical labor, packing a ship with hides to be carried around Cape Horn to Boston, that During all this time,--which would have startled Dr. Graham--we lived upon almost nothing but fresh beef; fried beefsteaks three times a day,--morning, noon, and night. At morning and night we had a quart of tea to each man; and an… ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WMBmMfDhCUSf) _2026-08-02 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [Finite Dialectic, Part II: The Spinozist Dialectic Or, Remarks on a Comment by Macherey](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/08/finite-dialectic-part-ii-spinozist.html) _2026-08-01 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ Pierre Macherey and Etienne Balibar via Décalages Sometimes I waste time by thinking of classes that I will never get a chance to teach, classes that would be for graduate students (which we do not have at USM), or entail books which have yet to be translated, or classes that are just too long. One class that meets all three would be a class on the dialectic and vicissitudes, this class would… ## [Twenty Lines of Homer](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/07/twenty-lines-of-homer.html) _2026-07-31 · George · 20011_ I have read of the discipline of a nightly "twenty lines of Homer", which I suppose to include construing, perhaps after copying out, twenty (Greek) lines of The Iliad or The Odyssey every night. At the moment, the only citation I can give is to one of Flann O'Brien's Keats and Chapman stories. One could not in some ways ask for a finer source than O'Brien; one could certainly ask for a more… ## [(untitled)](https://philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2026/07/random-quote-what-if-one-person-or-some.html) _2026-07-29 · HbdW · Philosophy by the Way_ Random quote What if one person or some oligarchy or indeed a democracy, were possessed of a soul that hungers for pleasures and passions, and needs to be filled with these, a soul that resists nothing, and is assailed by unending, insatiate evil diseases? Well, if something of this sort, having trampled all over the laws, rules a city or some individual, then, there is no way to save it. An… ## [The flow of happiness](https://philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-flow-of-happiness.html) _2026-07-26 · HbdW · Philosophy by the Way_ Lately, someone asked me what I think happiness is. I had forgotten that once I had written a blog about it, but essentially my answer was the same as what I had written there, although from a different perspective. Therefore I think it is worth writing about it again, instead of simply referring to that old blog. I assume that many people see happiness as a state. As a positive subjective feeling… ## [Odysseys](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/07/odysseys.html) _2026-07-24 · George · 20011_ On Tuesday, I happened to look at the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry Online (RPO) site. I did not find what I was looking for (something short and pithy for ESL students to recite). I did see, though, that the Random Poem of the Day was "Hereux qui, comme Ulysse" by Joachim Du Bellay, Given that the new movie The Odyssey is just out, this struck me as a curious coincidence. A niece… ## [(untitled)](https://philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2026/07/random-quote-clogs-floppies-slippers.html) _2026-07-23 · HbdW · Philosophy by the Way_ Random quote Clogs – “floppies,” slippers – are made so that one can slip them on one’s feet without using the hands. They are monuments to the hatred of bending over. Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) ## [Live Más, Comrades: Hegel, Marx, and the Dialectics of Diarrhea](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/07/live-mas-comrades-hegel-marx-and.html) _2026-07-20 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ The merit of Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of Right lie less in its solutions, constitutional monarchy, than in the way it grasps the fundamental problem of modern politics. Politics does not begin with individuals in some kind of pre-political state of nature, or as some kind of undifferentiated raw material. Politics, the state, comes after the institutions of the family and civil society,… ## [Humean causation](https://philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2026/07/humean-causation.html) _2026-07-19 · HbdW · Philosophy by the Way_ One of the most important contributions of David Hume (1711-1776) to philosophy is his view on causation. In several respects it is controversial and much has been said about it. Despite all criticisms it contains some essential elements of the idea of causation that you find back in almost any discussion about it, if not that they are present in the background. Therefore it’s worth giving here… ## [Like a Romance](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/07/like-romance.html) _2026-07-16 · George · 20011_ The preface to Descartes's Principles of Philosophy includes I would suggest reading it all the way through, like a romance, without greatly straining one's attention, or being held up by any difficulties one encounters, so as simply to get a general idea of the subjects discussed. Afterwards, if one decides that these are worthy of them, it can be read a second time, so as to follow the sequence… ## [The Uses of Horror: Obsession and Get Out](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/07/the-uses-of-horror-obsession-and-get-out.html) _2026-07-10 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ I teach a philosophy of film class, and have for years now. It is a fun class, I get a lot of students, and I like talking about movies and philosophy. However, every year I wonder if I am talking about an art form that has a future or even a present. Do people even go to movies. I have contemplated switching it, for a few years I thought of replacing film with television, with shows like The… ## [One OS for your AI workforce (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xJx92pVEOluB) _2026-07-10 · **Sponsored**_ Build, direct, and supervise an AI workforce from a single operating workspace. ## [Translation: A Spinozist Noo-Politics: Reconsideration of two recent books on Spinoza by Lorenzo Vinciguerra and Pascal Sévérac by Yves Citton](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/07/translation-spinozist-noo-politics.html) _2026-07-10 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ This is a draft translation of an early review by Yves Citton Published in Multitudes Picture from The Brain from Planet Arous In his latest work, Maurizio Lazzarato proposed designating as " noo-politics " the "new power relations that take memory—and its conatus (attention)—as their object." Noo-politics (as it is currently exercised through "wireless, audiovisual, and telematic networks, and… ## [Working Together: on Fischbach's Faire Ensemble (and the question of solidarity)](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/07/working-together-on-fischbachs-faire.html) _2026-07-01 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ Having spent a lot of time thinking about, and thinking with, the concept of " negative solidarity ," it sometimes occurs to me that I should think about its opposite, about solidarity, as the necessary condition for collective action. I have read on the topic from time to time, I read Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix's book Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World Changing Idea as… ## [The Baedeker of the Soul](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-baedeker-of-soul.html) _2026-06-30 · George · 20011_ Noticed today in The Strange Death of Liberal England by George Dangerfield: Important writing, strange to say, seldom gives the exact flavor of its period; if it is successful, it presents you with the soul of man, undated. Very minor literature, on the other hand, is the Baedeker of the soul, and will guide you through the curious relics, the tumble-down buildings, the flimsy palaces, the false… ## [The Career Ladder](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-career-ladder.html) _2026-06-23 · George · 20011_ My brother sent me a link to an article in The Denver Post to the effect that the University of Denver is shutting down two departments, of Religious Studies and of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I thought this curious in part because DU had closed the entire College of Engineering about 1975, then revived it. (In this part of Colorado, the 'U' goes last in the abbreviation, wherever it… ## [Popular Down the Hall](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/06/popular-down-hall.html) _2026-06-18 · George · 20011_ In 1992, a number of academic philosophers signed a letter to The Times of London, suggesting that the electors at Cambridge University vote against granting an honorary degree to Jacques Derrida. One of the matters alleged to the discredit of his writings was that Their influence, however, has been to a striking degree almost entirely in fields outside philosophy in departments of film studies,… ## [Phone Home: What Disclosure Day Discloses](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/06/phone-home-spielbergs-aliens-and-ours.html) _2026-06-15 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ E.T. The Extraterrestrial Can set design make or break a film? In general, probably not, but it made one film for me. I remember seeing E.T. The Extraterrestrial as a kid and seeing the image of a television set with an Atari 2600 stacked on top, and cartridges underneath. It was the first time that a movie looked like something I recognized, like it could have been my house, my television. This… ## [We're All Starbuck\*:The Barista as Worker and Cultural figure](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/06/were-all-starbuck-barista-as-worker-and.html) _2026-06-07 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ The Double Shift had its moment on Brooklyn Coffee Shop My first job, my first real job, was barista . Before that I had babysat, and done a bunch of odd jobs around the daycare center my mother ran, painting, assembling cots, making meals, which involved a lot of fish sticks and mac and cheese. It was my first real job in the sense that I had to apply for it, and received a paycheck (along with… ## [Warp Speed](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/06/warp-speed.html) _2026-06-05 · George · 20011_ The New York Times says that some young playwright's career is moving at warp speed. I was never particularly a Trekkie, but couldn't avoid knowing that in Star Trek warp speeds are beyond the speed of light. (And therefore beyond possibility, but never mind that.) Given that I don't think much about Star Trek, "warp" first recalled accounts of ships that were warped here and there, either towed,… ## [Society is a Scam: On the Proliferation of Cons in Contemporary Life](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/06/society-is-scam-on-proliferation-of.html) _2026-06-03 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ A detourned Calivn and Hobbes cartoon going viral When I was a kid we received a chain letter. It was sent to our house. It promised untold riches and bountiful luck if we sent money, I am a little unclear on the details, and warned of misfortune and calamity if we did not. I remember that it was adorned with all kinds of images from the world magic, strange symbols, evil eyes, and the like. It… ## [The Washington Star](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-washington-star.html) _2026-05-31 · George · 20011_ According to The New York Times , two businesses are starting newspapers in Washington, one to be called The Star, one The Washington Star. The latter is suing the former for trademark infringement. It is hard for me to see that the name is worth much. The old Washington Star went out of business in 1981.The youngest person to have read it would have to be about 50; the youngest to have subscribed… ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/YhOdeD5KPGaU) _2026-05-31 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [The Small Print](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-small-print.html) _2026-05-29 · George · 20011_ A while ago, a friend gave me a copy of The Neo-Kantian Reader . As time allows, I have been reading in it. Of the neo-Kantians included, some were only names to me: Hermann Cohen, Ernst Cassirer, Wilhelm Windelband, Hans Vaihinger. Others--Lask, Lotze, Natorp, etc.--I don't remember ever hearing of. It is only in the "responses" section where more familiar names come in. So far as I have read, it… ## [Acronym Overloading](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/05/acronym-overloading.html) _2026-05-28 · George · 20011_ Happening to look at the Little Free Library at Midgely Corner today, I saw a hardbound book, VB6 by Mark Bittman. Had I not known of Mark Bittman as a food writer for the New York Times, I might have supposed this was a book on the programming language Visual Basic 6, which commonly is known as VB6. No doubt Bittman has interests beyond food, but VB6 has been out of support since 2008, and the… ## [Discontinuity and Continuity: On Reading (and Rereading) Lazzarato](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/05/discontinuity-and-continuity-on-reading.html) _2026-05-21 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ War and Money is Part of the Pile of Books that I am working on Philosophy is filled with famous breaks. The break between the young and mature Marx, the Wittgenstein of the Tractatus and Logical Investigations, Heidegger's Kehre, Foucault's transition from archeology to genealogy. Sometimes such breaks are declared by the philosopher in question, other times they are discovered, or perhaps… ## [Peter G. Neumann, RIP](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/05/peter-g-neumann-rip.html) _2026-05-20 · George · 20011_ The New York Times has an obituary of Peter G. Neumann online, though not yet, I think, in print. Neumann worked for many years as editor of the Association for Computing Machinery Risks in Computing news group. The Times says that he started this in 1985. The last comp.risks digest in my inbox is from April 12 this year: Neumann edited it, at the age of 93. Neumann also played a considerable role… ## [A Tradition Carried On](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-tradition-carried-on.html) _2026-05-14 · George · 20011_ In Roughing It , Mark Twain writes of a mining companion, Mr. Ballou: Although he was more than twice as old as the eldest of us, he never gave himself any airs, privileges, or exemptions on that account. He did a young man’s share of the work; and did his share of conversing and entertaining from the general stand-point of any age—not from the arrogant, overawing summit-height of sixty years. His… ## [Through A Google Glass Darkly: On The Draw](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/05/through-google-glass-darkly-on-draw.html) _2026-05-11 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ Marx wrote, "The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living," but he neglected to add that it is the nightmare of traditions that weighs the heaviest in moments of crisis. Ever since 2016, we have seen a revival of some of the darkest moments of the imagination, Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower has made the best sellers list, and 1984 has been… ## [Unknown Sees](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/05/unknown-sees.html) _2026-05-07 · George · 20011_ Last week, the The Washington Post reported that Bishop Evelio Menjivar-Ayala was elevated from auxiliary bishop of the Washington Archdiocese to Bishop of West Virginia. This surprised me a little, not because Bishop Menjivar-Ayala has been promoted, but because I had never heard of a Roman Catholic diocese named after a state. The Episcopalian Church (the Protestant Episcopal Church of the… ## [Structured and Structuring: Lordon and Éwanjé-Épée on Race and Class](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/05/structured-and-structuring-lordon-and.html) _2026-05-03 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ As I mentioned when I first reviewed it here, Frédéric Lordon's Figures du Communisme is an oddly titled book. It is not about some communist past or event, about the Soviet Union or China, but what communism must mean if it is to be a force of transformation in the future. Its central topics, the environment, work, and the intersection of race and class, are not exactly topics that immediately… ## [A University of Which the Football Team Could Be Proud](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-university-of-which-football-team.html) _2026-04-23 · George · 20011_ I thought the expression "a university the football team can be proud of" came from the Marx Brothers' movie Horsefeathers. I was wrong. The expression (which I didn't get quite right) did not come from screenwriters at a studio, but from a university president in a state senate hearing. ESPN gives a concise account: Movies are not real life, although they might have been in February 1951.… ## [The Accidents of Publishing.](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-accidents-of-publishing.html) _2026-04-20 · George · 20011_ I have now and then complained about the sloppy practices of businesses that specialize in printing works that are in the public domain. But this week I noticed again that the books even of quite reputable publishers are subject to accidents. I happened to open The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806, about a quarter of the way in, where I encountered But, as the full gravity… ## [Society Effects: Living in a Society from Marx to Spinoza (and back)](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/04/society-effects-living-in-society-from.html) _2026-04-20 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ Something is amiss in society. Many people have noticed a seemingly recent tendency of people acting in such a way in public as to disregard the very presence of other people, listening to music without headphones, having facetime conversations in coffee shops (also without headphones), and so on. Perhaps all of this started with Covid, which exasperated the already existing social distancing of… ## [The Irrational Laws of Civility](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-irrational-laws-of-civility.html) _2026-04-18 · George · 20011_ On 30 September 1645, Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia wrote to René Descartes a letter including To benefit from the particular truths you mention, we would need an exact knowledge of all these passions and preconceptions, of which most people are unaware. When we observe the customs and values of the country we are in, we sometimes discover extremely irrational ones, which we have to conform… ## [Irreplaceable: The End of Hampshire College and Reproductive-Rift](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/04/irreplaceable-end-of-hampshire-college.html) _2026-04-14 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ Picture of me being handed my diploma by Greg Prince, then President of Hampshire College The slogan "You will not replace us" gained broad recognition after the infamous "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville. It was the distillation of what has come to be known as "Great Replacement Theory" one of the pillars of the modern white supremacist movement. The idea is that the well documented… ## [Production Values](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/04/production-values.html) _2026-04-06 · George · 20011_ The New York Times crossword puzzle for Sunday, March 29, included the clue "Odd-numbered page" for the word "recto". This came to mind on Saturday when I was re-reading Mental Acts: Their Content and Their Objects by Peter Geach. It is not that Geach touches on the terms of publishing and printing, rather that I became aware that the odd-numbered page I was reading was on the verso of the… ## [Every One is Entitled](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/04/every-one-is-entitled.html) _2026-04-04 · George · 20011_ The Gutenberg project this week feature among other books Volume II of Alexander Herzen's My Life and Thoughts . Looking into it, I noticed Who is entitled to write his reminiscences? Every one. Because no one is obliged to read them In order to write one’s reminiscences it is not at all necessary to be a great man, nor a notorious criminal, nor a celebrated artist, nor a statesman—it is quite… ## [Sentences that Make Books: On Du Bois and Hall](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/04/sentences-that-make-books-on-du-bois.html) _2026-04-03 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ In the past few months I have been thinking more about "racial capitalism," or, more to the point, one I alluded to, but did not develop in The Double Shift , and have posted about here, about the intersection between the hierarchies produced in the labor relation and the hierarchies of racism. On what could be called the racial division of labor. I would like to thank Alex Taek-Gwang Lee for… ## [Reviewing](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/03/reviewing.html) _2026-03-29 · George · 20011_ About forty years ago, The Washington Post published a review of a biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton, I suppose the one by Edward Rice. The reviewer was Anthony Burgess, the review was informative and readable. Presently the Post's book section carried a letter praising the quality of Burgess's sketch of Burton's life, and remarking on his graciousness in making a passing mention of Rice's… ## [Not In a Post-Modern Era](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/03/not-in-post-modern-era.html) _2026-03-26 · George · 20011_ Noticed in the essay "Philosophy in a New Century", collected in the book of that name by John Searle: If by "modernism" is meant the period of systematic rationality and intelligence that began with the Renaissance and reached a high point of self-conscious articulation in the European Enlightenment, then we are not in a post-modern era. On the contrary, modernism has just begun. We are, however,… ## [Revolutions in the Revolution: On Jaquet's Révolution Transclasses](http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/03/revolutions-in-revolution-on-jaquets.html) _2026-03-22 · unemployed negativity · Unemployed Negativity_ Chantal Jaquet's first book on what she called "transclasses" took up the subject of non-reproduction, of people who move from the dominated to the dominant class, in part because she argued that such transformations were perhaps the only way to grasp the conditions and forces of social transformation in times that were bereft of revolutionary movements. "In the absence of change on a collective… ## [Doing Without](http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2026/03/doing-without.html) _2026-03-19 · George · 20011_ For the first time in many years, we went on a trip without bringing a computer. We did not have, that is, a computer with a keyboard and a fair-sized display. We did have mobile phones, which have computational power beyond what some of those computers in the past did. Only a few times did I think that it would have been well to have a computer. Those were times that I wished to write something…