laziness, comfort and freedom and dr fun
Dr Fun posted a strip about the relation between laziness, comfort and freedom which Simon Phipps briefly describes as “The greatest enemy of freedom is a happy slave”.
Once you stopped laughing, I suggest you an interesting exercise: start thinking about a better a reason to give away freedom than comfort and coolness. I really do believe it’s an hard exercise; because freedom is not the easy way, it has choices, many, and decisions, some easy some others difficult, so it avoids laziness as hell.
Think about computers and software, when the price of having freedom for your data over the coolness and the comfort of the environments where this data are stored and processed what you would choose, or better, what you have choosen?
Freedom can be attained only by the everyday practice of a lifetime; it is not be purchased at a lesser price. Sometimes this practice is simple, sometimes not.
(The final sentece is a reference to Samuale Johnson’s quote “Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.”, read in Peter Norvig’s “Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years“; this is a highly recommend reading for every aspiring software engineer/computer scientist).
If the reader has a cooler and more comfortable solution he is welcome to enlighten the (lazy) writer.
