I’ve had a few amusing (to me) aphoristic thoughts from time to time, and will share them here when I get inspired to do so.
Just one so far, inspired to share in large part because of a longish discussion about it with Grok that I found particularly amusing.
It’s dancing bears all the way down.
Richard Minner, 2025
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In case you don’t know the references, it’s a mashup of two semi-famous bits. First is from variations on an old Russian proverb: The marvel is not that the bear dances well, but that the bear dances at all. This has to do with expectations, and when things are pressed into service in new and odd ways. The second is the famous story of the elderly woman explaining how the world sits on the back of a giant turtle. And that turtle? A larger one. But… Oh no, she says, it’s turtles all the way down.
If really interested for some reason, you can read a lot more in my Grok discussion about it, including the Grateful Dead twist.