Civilization advances by extending the number of important functions that can be effectively fulfilled via mediocrities confidently half-assing them.
Exhibit A: photography.
A. N. Whitehead’s formulation (“...without thinking about them”) relies too much on full automation.
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Maybe he was talking about the automation of things like moving your feet to walk and tying your shoe ..
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CM Kornbluth makes this point in "Little Black Bag," (the companion story to "Marching Morons").


