I’ve been thinking a whole lot lately about the old adage “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” The historian of religion Karen Armstrong would say that this saying is an indication of the tension between mythos and logos—the eternal ideal vs. the practical real.
And while I’m sure that’s [...]Now that the would-be bombers in Great Britain have all been tracked with closed-circuit television, the FBI is going to want a CCTV network for the U.S., and We, The People are likely to agree. There are all kinds of reasons this is a bad idea, and I don’t need to echo the sadness most [...]
Helgi Tomasson, Artistic Director of San Francisco Ballet, was quoted in Dance Magazine saying this many years ago. The external pressure exerted on dancers to look a certain way and the resultant frailty of a dancer’s relationship to her body has been well documented by scientists (the female athlete triad of ammenorhea, anorexia, high-energy [...]