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January 07, 2004
Shut yo’ mouth
Paul Graham, the programmer who created the Arc programming language and wrote the essay “Why Nerds are Unpopular,” has written a brilliant essay about moral fashion and heresy titled “What You Can’t Say.” This is a must-read.
Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself and been embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actually dress like that? We did. And we had no idea how silly we looked. It’s the nature of fashion to be invisible, in the same way the movement of the earth is invisible to all of us riding on it.What scares me is that there are moral fashions too. They’re just as arbitrary, and just as invisible to most people. But they’re much more dangerous.
Posted by paullheureux at January 7, 2004 03:25 PM