Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud Friday, 2024.04.19 
No matter how passionately you feel about something, dying for it will not make
you any more right than you were before you died. While martyrdom might inspire
people under certain circumstances, I think that in general the longer you live,
the more you can accomplish. People who believe in their principles so strongly
that they're willing to die for them would do better to channel that same energy
into living.

That's why people who want to live will generally defeat people who want to die.

		Eric Scheie, www.classicalvalues.com, commenting on Lutheran vicar Roland Weisselberg who set himself alight to warn against the danger of the Islamization of Europe.

2006.12.17

It’s All About You, But You Knew That, Didn’t You?

Time Magazine’s Person of the Year: You

So, since “You” are the Person of the Year that makes “Everyone” the Person of the Year which makes “No One” Person of the Year. So just chill and get back to work. You’re not so special after all. Now, “Me”, on the other hand…

UPDATE!

Once again, the crack Java Zen Table, Desk and Counter Intelligence Teams have intercepted crucial documents. This time, it’s the early candidates for Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.” Here’s the finalist…

POTY Final

… and here are the candidate personal pronouns:

POTY Draft 2 POTY Draft 1
POTY Draft 3 POTY Draft 4

[Edit History]

2006.12.17

Tim Blair has sussed a slight conceptual problem with Time magazine’s selection for Person of the Year.

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