I enjoy Holly’s posts on Medium, and they serve as an important source for me on current usage of hipster jargon and references, so even when the hyperbole and catastrophizing are taken to the HNL ([w]hole ‘nutha level, for you youngsters) there is still tasty food for thought. So, thanks.

OTOH, it also shows to go you just how much youth and handheld screens can be a drag on your developing vision of what constitutes the good life well-lived. Ethical decision-making is strongly bound with considerations of timescale. Holly writes that good character involves thinking about what is right action ‘at this moment’ but what is right for right now is often not right when looked at in light of a larger time frame.

Holly is clearly aware of this — at a certain level — when it comes to historical context, at least in what passes for history when you depend upon dynamic google searches for knowledge about anything other than consumables.

Ethical dilemmas are always choices between options where neither one is ideal, or even preferred. It’s nice to aim high and feel good about doing so, knowing that you will likely miss anyway, but governing the US federal bureaucracy is not something that we get to stop at dusk and then start over again tomorrow. The mail keeps showing up in the sorting facility.

I took a moment to comment because the word of the day from Merriam Webster’s mailing list happens to be “callow.”