I love this analogy; it's wonderfully enlightening and
entertaining. I might point out, though, that it applies
equally well to institutions of society as it does to
items of technology. "Learning" that men should wear
ironed shirts and shined shoes, and women painted faces
and fashionable dresses, or that certain simple, perfectly
clear four-letter Anglo-Saxon words should be avoided in
favor of obscure Latinates are also examples of adapting
to the dribble glass.
My favorite quote along those line's is Krishnamurti's:
"It is no sign of mental health to be well-adjusted
to a profoundly sick society."
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