[latexr]

I’m not defending GP, but this bit from your post got me thinking:

> If everyone spent time going through every supposedly basic thing first, nobody would get anything done.

I’m not convinced that’d be so bad. We could all strive to do less. There’s too much bullshit “doing” in the world and not enough thoughtful pondering on what should be done.

If everyone spent the time to go through basic things, and thus had less time to do new things, then there would be fewer things to go through. And every new thing would be informed by what came before and not repeat its mistakes. And they would have had more thought put into it, thus be less buggy and dysfunctional, thus necessitating fewer alternatives.

It’s not going to happen, but everyone doing less and taking the time to learn the basics would likely make the world better.