For years, Friedrich Nietzsche wasnt taken seriously as a philosopher. Indeed, many didnt regard him as a philosopher at all. He was instead dismissed as a clever provocateur a witty aphorist who composed eccentric books replete with pithy observations and vertiginous tirades. He mixed ecstatic tones with convulsive invective, all collected under arresting titles such as Beyond Good and Evil, Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist.

Unlike conventional philosophers, Nietzsche had no unified, coherent theory. He didnt proceed in a methodical, calm manner, advancing to a carefully delineated conclusion. He never encumbered his prose with technical expressions, jargon or cloudy terminology. No plodding Kant or Hegel was he. He was a mystic and a seer, advocate of the bermensch, the will to power, eternal recurrence and the Antichrist.

Nietzsche was also as much a psychologist as a philosopher. His central concern was that life involved struggle and self-overcoming. He said that the only authority we can appeal to in our embrace of strife is ourselves. May each man, or woman, be only his or her true disciple, he wrote in a letter in 1878. Or as he once put it more pithily: Live dangerously! Why? Because, as he famously wrote in 1888: That which doesnt kill me makes me stronger.

To the acolytes Nietzsche began to attract in the 1890s, he was a prophet. By this time, he had become insane, following a mental collapse in Turin in January 1889. In his followers eyes, it was precisely this madness that afforded him mystical status. It was held up as proof that he had perceived the hideous reality of mankinds bleak fate, now that he had killed God. As Nietzsche himself had put it: If you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you. Never mind that his madness may have had a more prosaic origin in syphilis.

The last full year of Nietzsches sanity was 1888. This is the focus for Lesley Chamberlains study, Nietzsche in Turin. First published in 1997, it has now been re-issued in honour of its 25th anniversary. Although it is ostensibly set in one specific time and place, the work shuttles back and forth throughout Nietzsches life and ideas. Its a primer masquerading as a snapshot.

And what a tragic year 1888 was for Nietzsche. Not only was he on the precipice, with his mind starting to unravel in October, but he was also finally beginning to attain the recognition he had so desperately yearned for. Since his books first began appearing in earnest in 1878, they had either been scorned or ignored. Ten years later, just as he was about to enter the darkness, his thoughts were finally starting to see the light.

It would be easy to present Nietzsches final sane year in sickly, sentimental or sensationalist terms. But Chamberlain lets the events speak for themselves. We are presented from the outset with an all-too-human character a struggling independent writer, forever on the move between Switzerland, France and Italy. Nietzsche was hugely industrious in transforming his manifold thoughts into words, but was forever failing to find an audience. We read tantalising correspondence, chiefly from Denmark, where lectures on his work in Copenhagen attracted full houses. This was evidence that the tide was turning. But it was all too late.

Nietzsche the writer and Nietzsche the person were often two different beasts, and could be seen in contrast or as complementary. For such an abrasive and belligerent writer, who glorified power, extolled the hypothetical bermensch and disdained the weak, he was himself a feeble character, a martyr to crippling headaches and acute myopia, which prevented him from writing for long periods at a time. That, incidentally, explains his predilection for a brief and aphoristic style.

Nietzsches outpourings doubled up as a form of catharsis and wish-fulfilment. As Chamberlain writes: The combined pressures of sickness, penury and obscurity go part way to explain the frequency of such terms as power (Macht) and strength (Kraft), sickness (Krankheit), rottenness (Verdorbenheit, Verderbnis) and decay (dcadence, Dekadenz) in his writing. That Chamberlain is a fluent German speaker adds much weight to this book. Many of the abstract nouns Nietzsche used demand not just translation, but elucidation. Meanwhile, his penchant for puns and wordplay are lost in English translation. Chamberlain also knows her Richard Wagner, which is essential to understanding Nietzsche and his ambivalent relationship with that man and his music.

To regard Nietzsche as a self-help author, writing primarily for himself, helps to put his least convincing idea eternal recurrence into perspective. This is the idea that we will live our lives again and again, ad infinitum. For an anti-metaphysician who suggested that we can strive to be higher, better beings, this fatalistic notion of eternal recurrence seems jarring. He devised it in 1881, at a time of personal crisis and romantic rejection, and one must conclude that it was a consolatory comfort blanket. It could be put more prosaically thus: shit happens.

Then there is the other contrast between the thunderous, apocalyptic philosopher who proclaimed I am dynamite and exhorted us to philosophise with a hammer, and the diminutive, polite, softly spoken man with a high-pitched voice. As Resa von Schirnhofer, a young philosophy student with whom Nietzsche had climbed mountains behind Nice, remembered: So unrestrained as a thinker, Nietzsche as a person was of exquisite sensitivity, tenderness and refined courtesy in attitude and manners towards the female sex, as others who knew him personally have often emphasised. Nothing in his nature could have made a disturbing impression on me.

The dissonance between the bellicose Nietzsche of legend and the all-too-human Nietzsche the person is conveyed brilliantly in Chamberlains wonderful portrait. After all these years, Nietzsche in Turin remains a most beautiful and evocative but seldom gratuitous depiction of this delicate soul, who truly merits the clich of the tortured artist.

Chamberlain understands Nietzsches everlasting appeal well. Foremost, it was his gift as a writer a writer who wrote in German as if it were French and who assembled prose as if he were composing operas. What he had, Chamberlain writes, was a wonderful musical way with words. In that sense he was a musician. In that sense he did fulfil his desire to make music the fundament of his creative life.

Chamberlains description of Nietzsches liberating philosophy, or psychology, encapsulates his allure as the arch-individualist and ultimate free thinker: He is implicitly inimical to any form of political correctness or mass ideology Nietzsche was not a proto-Nazi, not a nihilist, not an anarchist.

Bewitching style and meaty substance there lies Nietzsches everlasting appeal.

Patrick West is a spiked columnist and author of Get Over Yourself: Nietzsche For Our Times.

Nietzsche in Turin: The End of the Future, by Lesley Chamberlain, is published by Pushkin Press. Order it here.

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The 2023 PRINT Awards are now open. Friedrich Nietzsches Malling-Hansen Writing Ball. A branding expert talks about creative a bespoke typeface. A website that deteriorates every time someone visits it. Volkswagens motorized office chair can cruise up to 12 mph. A cubicle with motorized walls that can follow you around. Get a Hot Wheels version of your own car. A portmanteau word generator. Graphene is going into space. The James Webb Space telescope captures a protostar. Coors has developed nail polish that changes color when its temperature drops to a level acceptable for drinking a Coors Light. All that and more in WhatTheyThinks weekly miscellany.

Are youor do you knowa graphic designer whose work is outstanding? The 2023 PRINT Awards are now open. From PRINT Magazine:

The 2023 PRINT Awards celebrates every detail of design, from the delicate textures and exquisite form of print to digital design that marries technical skill with craftsmanship. No matter what role design plays in our lives, the PRINT Awards winners highlight the best of design and inspire a path to the future for our industry.

For 2023, PRINT Awards has added two new categories:In-House DesignandDesign for Social Impact. In-House Design recognizes communication materials created by an in-house team for the organization at which they are employed. Design for Social Impact celebrates campaigns created for nonprofit organizations, or associations that advance social good and include a call to action.

They began accepting entries on November 10, and the deadline is February 28, 2023. More information and entry form here.

A writing ball, actually. The German philosopher may have written all about the Superman but toward the end of his life he was anything but, suffering from not only incapacitating indigestion, insomnia, and migraines (oh, who doesnt?) but also failing eyesight. But he was also at the peak of his writing career. Says Open Culture:

Nietzsche himself declared that writing and reading for more than twenty minutes had grown excessively painful. With his intellectual output reaching its peak during this period, the philosopher required a device that would let him write while making minimal demands on his vision.

The typewriter had been invented by then (this was circa 1881), but he was looking for something portable that he could take when traveling to healthier climes. The Malling-Hansen Writing Ball fit the bill.

In1865, Danish inventorRasmus Malling-Hansen invented the writing ball, which actually preceded Christopher Latham Sholes typewriter by 10 years. When it was shown at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1878, journalists were ensorcelled.

In the year 1875, a quick writing apparatus, designed by Mr. L. Sholes in America, and manufactured by Mr. Remington, was introduced in London. This machine was superior to the Malling-Hansen writing apparatus; but the writing ball in its present form far excels the Remington machine. It secures greater rapidity, and its writing is clearer and more precise than that of the American instrument. The Danish apparatus has more keys, is much less complicated, built with greater precision, more solid, and much smaller and lighter than the Remington, and moreover, is cheaper.

It was considered the 19th-century version of a laptop, and Nietzsche was immediately drawn to it, using it with great enthusiasm and typing upwards of 60 manuscripts on the writing ball, including his ode to typewriting:

THE WRITING BALL IS A THING LIKE ME:

MADE OF IRON YET EASILY TWISTED ON JOURNEYS.

PATIENCE AND TACT ARE REQUIRED IN ABUNDANCE

AS WELL AS FINE FINGERS TO USE US.

Alas, his enthusiasm didnt last long.

According to Eberwein, the philosopher struggled with the device after it was damaged during a trip to Genoa; an inept mechanic trying to make the necessary repairs may have broken the writing ball even further.

If you want far more detail on Nietzsches writing ball, you can read all about it the ebook Nietzches Schreibkigel, by Dieter Eberwein, vice-president of the International Rasmus Malling-Hansen Society, published by Typoscript Verlag (download PDF for free here).

We in this industry know how important typography is, especially where branding is concerned. At PRINT magazine, an in-depth interview with Mollie Kendell, Senior Designer at branding agency Lantern, about how the company developed a bespoke typeface forDigital Isle of Man, the type design process in general, and how typography can help elevate a branding system.

Typography can act as the glue to the different components of the branding system and bring together the meaning and voice behind the brand. If the typography choice is built on strategy and ideas, I think this is effective to then evoke the brands personality, celebrate its history, and bring emotion from the audience.

Via Boing Boing, Crowd-jpeg is a website that deteriorates every time someone visits it. (Sounds like Twitter.) Anyway, its essentially an image that is compressed each time someone visits it, and it seems the idea is to show what extensive compression does to an image, much like successive generations of a photocopy. This is what an image that has been compressed 27,837 times looks like:

By the way, it works better in Chrome than Safari.

Were not entirely certain who would use this, but Volkswagen has apparently introduced a motorized office chair that can cruise at about 12 mph and up to 7.5 miles on a single battery charge. If you work in a really big office with lots of long empty corridors, it would be perfect. But thats not all: it seems to have more features than Volkswagens own cars. Says The Verge:

its got360-degree collision avoidance sensors, a backup camera with full guidance, a heated embroidered seat, party lights, a touchscreen display, a USB charger, and a tow hitch. LED headlights, a seatbelt, and a horn come standard. Theres even a trunk (a pocket, anyhow) with 0.17 cubic feet of space for documents and / or a laptop.

And, of course, a seat belt. If it could also launch photon torpedoes, thatd be an added bonus.

We did check the calendar and its not April 1, but it does appear to be a marketing stunt, although they suggest thatit will be available for test drives at various locations.

One of the most horrific, soul-crushing workplace developments was the advent of the cubicle. But what could be worse than a tiny, non-private cubicle? Yes, one with motorized walls that can follow you around. Says Gizmodo:

WaddleWalls, developed by a team of robotics researchers at Japans Tohoku University, is a creation that takes the temporary nature of cubicles and partition walls one step further by automating them and allowing them to roam and navigate a space and set up a semi-private office space only as needed.

theself-contained robotic partitions can independentlynavigate an office space through the use of various sensors,but can also work as a larger swarm with other WaddleWalls units to assemble a privacy barrier around a worker on demand. In the morning, users of a shared office space might be more inclined to interact with each other to sort out the days goals, while later in the day,they might prefer more privacy to focus on getting work done, or as to not bother others with phone calls.

The system currently relies on a special controller to call the WaddleWalls units over and to orientate them as needed, including adjusting the height of the vertical barrier to increase or decrease privacy. But specific layouts can also be pre-programmed in advance, like a group of private working spaces for multiple users, or a display wall for making presentations,whichcouldbe triggered to assemble automatically so theres far less manual setup involved.

Its not entirely outlandish, especially if some staff are only in the office part of the time. Or you can use the Volkswagen office chair to outrun the walls.

Do you like your car? What about Hot Wheels and/or Matchbox cars? If yes to both, now you can combine them and get a Hot Wheels version of your own car. Says Core77:

Trent from JDM Customz can create a Hot-Wheels-esque replica of your exact car. Unlike an actual Hot Wheels version of your ride, Trent nails the details: Your actual paint color, rims, aftermarket add-ons, window tint, et cetera, all in 1:64 scale.

It requires sending him many photos of your car. Reviews on his Etsy shop are generally good, but his vehicle graphics need work. Perhaps a wide-format or signage shop can help him out with some really tiny wraps.

A portmanteau word is a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two othersfor example, brunch, which is a mashup of breakfast and lunch. Now, via Boing Boing, comes Portmanteur.com, with which you can create your own portmanteau words. We entered battery and licking, just for the heck of it.

Now, to work these into regular conversation (or Slack thread).

This can be a useful tool for coming up with pet namesor even childrens names.

Was it a good week for graphene news? Its always a good week for graphene news! Advanced Material Development (AMD), makers of a proprietary thin-film graphene-based coatings technology, just inked a deal with NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory to collaborate on the Europa Clipper project. The technology in question is a Radio Frequency-absorbing nanomaterial that can be applied to a variety of substrates. From (who else?) Graphene-Info:

The collaborative work is planned to be used for the NASA Europa Clipper spacecraft electromagnetic compatibility test campaign. AMDs materials could help enable the Europa Clipper project to confirm that the spacecrafts sensitive ice-penetrating radar will operate properly at key frequencies so as to meet science objectives.

The Europa Clipper spacecraft will perform dozens of close flybys of Jupiters moon Europa, gathering detailed measurements from multiple instruments, including the radar instrument, to investigate whether the moon could have conditions suitable for life. Europa Clippers primary objective is to determine whether there are places below Europas surface that could support life.

The James Webb Space Telescope is up and running and recently turned its gaze toward the protostar located within the dark cloud L1527, potentially shedding light (as it were) on new star formation. Says NASA:

The regions most prevalent features, the clouds colored blue and orange in this representative-color infrared image, outline cavities created as material shoots away from the protostar and collides with surrounding matter. The colors themselves are due to layers of dust between Webb and the clouds. The blue areas are where the dust is thinnest. The thicker the layer of dust, the less blue light is able to escape, creating pockets of orange.

Webb also reveals filaments of molecular hydrogen that have been shocked as the protostar ejects material away from it. Shocks and turbulence inhibit the formation of new stars, which would otherwise form all throughout the cloud. As a result, the protostar dominates the space, taking much of the material for itself.

Caption from NASA: The protostar within the dark cloud L1527, shown in this image from NASAs James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is embedded within a cloud of material feeding its growth. Ejections from the star have cleared out cavities above and below it, whose boundaries glow orange and blue in this infrared view. The upper central region displays bubble-like shapes due to stellar burps, or sporadic ejections. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI. Image processing: J. DePasquale, A. Pagan, and A. Koekemoer (STScI)

L1527 is only a mere 100,000 years oldyounger even than a toddler in astronomical terms, and the protostar cant yet generate its own energy through the nuclear fusion of hydrogen, which is what makes a star a star. As it accretes more mass and compresses, it will eventually be able to reach stardom.

The disk, seen in the image as a dark band in front of the bright center, is about the size of our solar system. Given the density, its not unusual for much of this material to clump together - the beginnings of planets. Ultimately, this view of L1527 provides a window into what our Sun and solar system looked like in their infancy.

The things we can do.

Fans of 1990s alternative music may or may not recognize the name Elephant 6 (full name Elephant 6 Recording Company), which was an ersatz collection of American bands such as Neutral Milk Hotel, Apples in Stereo, Of Montreal, and others, whose members often recorded and/or toured with each other in various combinations. Now, director Chad Stockfleth has filmed adocumentaryabout this notoriously reclusive bunch. Says Boing Boing:

it includes some rare interviews with some of the more reclusive artists from the Elephant 6 lineup, such as Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel. If youre into early 90s alternative alt-rock, this is a huge deal. The film is finally getting a world premiere this week at theDOC NYC Film Festival, with other screenings to follow atDenver Film FestivalandSound Unseenin Minneapolis.

The trend toward food and beverage brands getting into products that have nothing to do with food and beverages continues. Now, Coors has partnered with Le Chat, a nail polish manufacturer, to produce Chill Polish. Says Food & Wine:

Different styles of beers havedifferent ideal serving temperatures. But for Coors Light, only one temp will suffice: as cold as the Rockies. To hammer that point home, since 2007, the brand has offered color-changing labels to let drinkers know when their Coors Light is properly chilled.

Actually, we are not fans of Coors Light, so we never knew this. Anyway, they have taken the idea even further:

But what about when youre drinking Coors Light in a pint glass? the brand asked. With that in mind, the brewing giant teamed up with the nail polish experts at Le Chat to create a color-changing polish that goes from gray to blue when its temperature drops to a level acceptable for drinking a Coors Light.

We get that its really a marketing gimmick, but presumably if the temperature of the glass can make nail polish change color, you should just simply be able to feel how cold the glass is. (And if your fingers turn blue and youre not wearing the nail polish, its probably too cold.) And logically this would work with other beers, if you were really sensitive to the temperature of your beer.

November 14

1840: French painter Claude Monet born.

1851: Herman Melvilles novel Moby-Dick is published in the U.S.

1889: Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.

1916: American screenwriter and producer Sherwood Schwartz born.

1922: The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

1952: The first regular UK Singles Chart is published by the New Musical Express.

1967: American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the worlds first laser.

November 15

1926: The NBC radio network launches with 24 stations.

1968: The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.

1971: Intel releases the worlds first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.

November 16

534: Justinian I, who was an Eastern Roman (Byzantine) emperor in Constantinople, approves and publishes the second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus.

1889: American director, producer, and playwright George S. Kaufman born.

1904: English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (aka the vacuum tube).

1914: The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.

1938: LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

November 17

1749: French chef Nicolas Appert born. He invented the principle of canning.

1790: German mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Mbius born. (Its not true that his life had no beginning and no end.)

1839: Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy.

1944: College basketball coach Jim Boeheim born.

1947: American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.

1968: Viewers of the RaidersJets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S.

2019: The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. And so it begins

November 18

1787: French physicist and photographer, and inventor of the daguerreotype, Louis Daguerre, born.

1836: English playwright and poet W. S. Gilbert born.

1865: Mark Twains short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.

1883: American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times. Well, it was about time.

1922: French author and critic Marcel Proust dies (b. 1871).

1928: Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickeys birthday.

1963: The first push-button telephone goes into service.

November 19

1909: Austrian-American theorist, educator, and author Peter Drucker born.

1916: Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.

1954: Tl Monte Carlo, Europes oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.

1955: National Review publishes its first issue.

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World Philosophy Day 2022

Philosophy is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered an academic discipline. It is also a theory or attitude that acts as a guiding principle for behaviour.

That's why each year UNESCO highlights the enduring value of the subject for the development of human thought, for each culture and for each individual. The day is to raise public awareness about philosophy and how it plays a crucial role in understanding our past, present, and future.

The day was first celebrated in 2002 and in 2005 UNESCO deemed it necessary to institutionalise the celebration of philosophical reflection around the world.

In 2007, UNESCO published a 726-page multilingual program and meeting document on the Records of the General Conference, 33rd session Paris, 2005. It was to commemorate World Philosophy Day and emphasized its importance among young people and as a discipline.

Theme of the year

A theme is added to World Philosophy Day each year so that the focus remains on a particular topic of importance. The theme for the 2022 World Philosophy Day is The Human of the Future. This year, UNESCO along with Le Fresnoy National Studio of Contemporary Arts has organized a symposium and exhibition.

The event will has been developed around the themes of natural sciences (the non-human), post-colonialism, technology issues, gender, waste, fictional inventions, and anthropology.

Quotes to share

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. Frank Zappa

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

Without music, life would be a mistake. Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. May Sarton

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! Friedrich Nietzsche

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell

Even while they teach, men learn Seneca the Younger

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance Socrates

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him Voltaire

This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities Bertrand Russell

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers William James

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit Aristotle

Only one man ever understood me, and he didnt understand me G. W. F. Hegel

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone John Locke

Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward Sren Kierkegaard

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know Bertrand Russell

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's? Friedrich Nietzsche

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong Bertrand Russell

Religion is the sign of the oppressed ... it is the opium of the people Karl Marx

Happiness is the highest good Aristotle

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil Baruch Spinoza

Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest Denis Diderot

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things Ren

Descartes

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative Aristotle

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature Spinoza

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it Karl Marx

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The German philosopher Nietzsche's Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. phrase seems to gain more meaning for companies with the recent emergence of the concept of quiet quitting. The concept of quiet quitting quickly spread after being voiced by a TikTok user @zaidleppelin, reaching 3.4 million viewers, and making a huge impact in many parts of the business world. After that, hundreds of people shared their quiet quitting experiences and thoughts with the quiet quitting hashtag, which has already received 32 million views. Thus, could the quiet quitting of so many people really be quiet?

@zaidleppelin defined quiet quitting at his TikTok[1] as Where not your outright quitting your job but youre quitting the idea of going above and beyond youre still performing your duties but youre no longer subscribing to the hustle culture mentality that work has to be your life. Quiet quitting is not an employee's resignation from their job but means that the employees do not go beyond their jobs for which they do not receive material or moral compensation. Many employees in different sectors share their quiet quitting experiences through the TikTok platform, showing that quiet quitting can take place in different ways. There may be thousands of excuses that employees find out if they decide to quit quietly, e.g. employees making fake doctor appointments, being told that they have internet problems even though there is no internet problem, microphones or cameras constantly turned off during online meetings or other uncommon behaviors the employees would unusually attempt may indicate that they have quietly quit their job.

Resume Builder's research[2] on 1,000 American employees also reveals how common quiet quitting is. According to the research, 21% of employees quit quietly by doing only minimal work. 5% of the employees do less than the minimum level of work. The reason behind quiet quitting is stated by the employees as being financially unsatisfied and unstable work-life balance. However, 91% of quiet quitters say they can still be encouraged to work more.

American psychologist Clayton Alderfer's Existence-Relatedness-Growth ("ERG") theory, which takes Maslow's hierarchy of needs one step further, can also provide insight into why employees quit quietly. The ERG theory groups the physiological needs, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization human needs that Maslow lists hierarchically. Accordingly, the group of needs called existence corresponds to Maslow's physiological and safety needs, social needs for relatedness, and growth needs for esteem and self-actualization.

Maslow takes a stand that only one need can be satisfied at any given time, and no higher need in the pyramid arises when that need is not met. On the contrary, Alderfer takes a stand that the relationship between human needs is not hierarchical, but rather that more than one need can arise simultaneously at any given time. Alderfer states that there is a relationship between these needs, which he calls frustration-regression. Accordingly, frustration occurs when the need at the hierarchical level is not met, and it regresses to another need. It is seen that employees who quit quietly are disappointed when they cannot satisfy their growth needs, as in the ERG theory, and they now regress to satisfy their relatedness needs. If an employee who cannot find the opportunity to grow in his/her business and cannot meet his/her need for growth regresses to his/her relatedness needs and spends more time socializing. [3]

The Importance of Employee Engagement for Companies

The behavior of quiet quitters is also like employee disengagement, as Dr. William A. Kahn mentioned in his article Psychological Conditions of Personal Engagement and Disengagement at Work.[4] The cognitive and emotional withdrawal that Kahn refers to as disengagement in his article corresponds to the fact that those who quit silently no longer feel committed to their jobs, not motivated to do more. Accordingly, it can be said that the employee engagement of those who quit quietly decreased.

Employee engagement is an element that should be considered by all companies as it helps to reduce staff turnover, increase productivity, build better business and customer relationships, and therefore increase company profits. According to Gallup's report[5] State of the Global Workplace published in 2022, the global cost of low employee engagement is $7.8 trillion. As is already seen, companies are faced with an increase in quiet quitting and, thus, a decrease in employee engagement. Companies should increase employee engagement to prevent qualified employees from quitting quietly. So, what can companies do to make their employees more engaged?

In his article, Kahn mentions that employee engagement can be increased if meaningfulness, safety, and availability are provided within reason. Employee loyalty is not only affected by financial factors such as salary increases. As well as material actors, employees feel more connected to the workplace and more willing to go beyond what their job brings, as they feel their job is meaningful, psychologically safe at work, and psychologically available. Research[6] by Timothy A. Judge and colleagues also shows that the link between wage level and job satisfaction is less than expected. When people receive a salary that can meet their basic lifestyle needs, their commitment is more affected by non-financial factors.

Accordingly, to increase employee engagement, companies should make sure that psychological safety, which is considered among human needs in the ERG theory, is provided in their workplace. Amy Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, defines psychological safety as a belief that a person will not be punished or humiliated for voicing opinions, questions, concerns or mistakes and that the team is safe to take interpersonal risks. According to this definition, companies should create a corporate culture where their employees can express opinions, questions, concerns, or mistakes, and what they say is listened to. A corporate culture where what employees say is important and considered will provide an environment where employees can freely voice the reasons that might lead them to quit quietly. Before they reach the point of quietly quitting, companies should increase the engagement of their employees when they understand the wishes and concerns of their employees and provide feedback to their employees. Employers' listening to their employees, taking the necessary measures to prevent low motivation within the company, and encouraging employees in various ways for their individual development will also positively affect employee engagement.

What Does Gen Z Expect from Business Owners?

Meaningfulness in work occurs when employees feel that they contribute to a whole with their work. Gen Z, today's new workforce and new talents, puts a meaningful work environment first in their job search. Research[7] conducted by Zety on Gen Z employees shows that 95% of Gen Z employees want a meaningful job that goes beyond just making a living. Quiet quitting is expressed more by young adults since the term has become a trend on social media, especially on TikTok. Considering the trends and tendencies, companies should help employees find the meaning of their jobs more. This should show how employees' work contributes to the company's mission, vision, and purpose, and why each of their contributions is important. It is easier for employees who have one-on-one contact with customers to see the result their work contributes. For this reason, the contribution should be seen in their work for employees who do not connect with customers due to their jobs. At the same time, it is necessary to provide a working environment that will allow employees to contribute more and support their personal development.

Finally, the psychological availability factor is related to how psychologically, physically, and emotionally ready an employee is at work. Kahn states that an employee's psychological availability changes and develops depending on events outside their work life. Companies should listen to why their employees feel burnt out to ensure their full psychological well-being. Following that, designing appropriate workplace rituals that they can create within the company with the answers they will receive will contribute to their well-being. Thus, employees will be more available to show themselves at work fully.

As employees start to prefer socially responsible companies that provide social benefits, the importance of compliance programs that are supportive mechanisms in companies where all stakeholders of the company can contribute to the company is increasing. The compliance program to be prepared or already in existence should develop the speak-up culture within the company, support the environment of trust and a sense of organisational justice, provide psychological security, and, most importantly, blend all of these with the corporate culture. A compliance program that indicates the importance of ethical behaviors and a respectful work environment creates a sense of belonging. Employees who feel that they are a part of the company will be more likely to contribute more. Overall, the compliance program, prepared with a multidisciplinary and human-centric approach, is one of the most important tools to increase employee engagement.

What is the Situation in Turkey?

Research[8] by Youthall about the working scheme and working hours in Turkey and this research gives us important information about quiet quitting. According to the research report, 46% of young people are unsatisfied with their current working scheme. They think their weekly working hours and working patterns are inefficient, and they cannot receive overtime wages. In addition, the fact that these rates are higher for female employees reveals the seriousness of the situation in the country. 86% of young people think working six hours a day and four days a week would be more productive.

82% of companies in Turkey have a working scheme of five days a week, and 52% have an average working time of eight hours per day. From the point of view of the companies, even if some think that reducing the working hours will delay the work, surprisingly, the ratio of the managers who think that six hours a day should be applied is 78% but working four days a week is not welcomed.

This research and current developments show that, no matter what, it seems inevitable to switch to a hybrid working order, especially with the influence of Gen Z. Otherwise, a company that ignores the demands of its employees will inevitably experience major problems in terms of sustainability.

Conclusion

The engagement of the employees in the company is a vital issue for the sustainability of the company's success. Failure to maintain this engagement leads to quiet quitting. Due to the decrease in employee engagement, companies risk decreasing their production, damaging business and customer relations, and thus reducing their profitability. To prevent all these negative consequences, companies should build a compliance program that helps employees to work in a workplace where they feel psychologically safe, find meaning in their work, and create a corporate culture where the well-being of the employees is valued.

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Editors note: This is an excerpt from Walkable City: 10th Anniversary Edition, an updated version of the best-selling urban planning book of the past decade featuring more than 100 pages of new material. It is republished with permission.

On the public health front, the original edition ofWalkable City described American obesity and asthma epidemics, largely the outcome of our automotive lifestyles; these continue unabated. It neglected to discuss the larger health impacts of tailpipe emissions and vehicle noise, which have both been discovered to be staggering.

According to a 2013 MIT study, emissions from road transportation are responsible for approximately fifty-three thousand annual early deaths in the United States, more than doubling the carnage that comes from crashes. A separate study placed fourteen hundred of those annual deaths in New York City alone, where the healthcare costs attributed to vehicle emissions surpassed $21 billion annually. Electric cars wont fix this: 85 to 90 percent of toxic vehicle emissions in traffic come from tire wear and other non-tailpipe sources.

Meanwhile, what you do hear can kill you. Scientists have discovered that being subjected to traffic noise results in altered blood chemistry and meddles with blood vessel function. The result is a greater risk of diabetes, heart attacks, and strokes.

A recent study linked road noise to dementia as well, especially Alzheimers. This remarkable effort spent thirteen years tracking the health outcomes of two million people a third of all Danes living in every residential building in the country. By comparing sides of buildings exposed to traffic noise with more sheltered sides, researchers found that fully 15 percent of dementia cases could be attributed to transport noise.

Finally, proof that driving makes you crazy. Can walking make you sane? As reported in Fast Company:

"People who walk 8.6 minutes a day are 33 percent more likely to report better mental health. . . . On the other hand, researchers found that if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if theyd fallen in love."

Heading back to Denmark, we can find the same understanding in the words of Sren Kierkegaard:

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.

Kierkegaard was not the first to connect regular walking not just with happiness, but with wisdom. As early as the fifth century, St. Augustine wrote solvitur ambulando: it is solved by walking. To this, Friedrich Nietzsche added only thoughts reached by walking have value. He walked six to eight hours a day, which may explain why I have heard him referred to as the last man to know everything.

Researchers are beginning to parse the connection between thinking and walking, and its more foundational than we expected. The Irish neuroscientist Shane OMara is one of many who promote a motor-centric concept of the brain, that it evolved to support movement and, therefore, if we stop moving, it wont work very well. He believes that the activation that occurs across the whole of the brain during problem-solving becomes much greater almost as an accident of walking demanding lots of neural resources. His experiments found, through brain-wave analysis, that rats who were wheeled around instead of walking became measurably more stupid.

One other justification for more walkable cities? Social capital. In Bowling Alone (2000), Robert Putnam blamed a decline in social capital nationwide, in part, on peoples long commutes. In Suburban Nation (also 2000), my coauthors and I talked about how the grave danger and spatial competition of driving turns normal people into sociopaths. If driving is so bad for community, could walking and biking produce better results?

That question was answered in a 2021 study by Jessica Stroope of Louisiana State University. She found that, aside from age and education, no other factor was as great a predictor of community participation than active transportation. Subjects who got around more on foot or by bicycle were demonstrably more likely to engage in policy change efforts through writing letters, making phone calls, and/or attending community meetings. These findings were a nice complement to the classic research of Donald Appleyard, who in 1981 compared the social lives of people who lived on streets with and without heavy car traffic. He found that while people on lightly traveled streets counted an average of three friends, people on busy streets averaged 0.9 friends.

Thats hardly the best ad copy: Heavy traffic: for those times you want slightly less than one friend.

Jeff Speckis an urban planner who advocates internationally for more walkable cities. As the former director of design at the National Endowment for the Arts, he oversaw the Mayors Institute on City Design, where he worked with dozens of American mayors on their most pressing city planning challenges.A fellow of both the American Institute of Certified Planners and the Congress for New Urbanism, he is the 2022 recipient of the Seaside Prize. His TED talks and YouTube videos have been viewed more than five million times.

Excerpted from "WALKABLE CITY: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time" by Jeff Speck. 10th Anniversary (Picador, 2022).

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Nietzsche exalted Russia as a dark, patient, durable power that promised a lot more than what he saw as the weak and decaying Europe. The ideas driving Putins war against Ukraine are a lot more Nietzschean, and European, than many like to admit, argues John Milbank.

In one of his last works, The Anti-Christ, Nietzsche declares Russia to be the only power that has durability in it, which can wait, which can still produce somethingthe antithesis of that pitiable European petty-state politics and nervousness, with which the foundation of the German Reich has entered its crucial phase. Earlier, in Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche had already made the same claim that only Russia possessed a real collective and institution-building will, whereas liberalism and democracy, which allow and celebrate passive weakness, were causing European institutions to disintegrate. These and other comments now seem prescient, demonstrating the Nietzschean roots of Putins ideology.

One of the things Nietzsche draws attention to is Russias different timescale, its patience that derives from a power to will that has been stored and accumulated for ages. He then suggests that a weakening of this power, which ultimately threatens Western Europe, would require more than just a defeat of Russia in India and complications in Asia. It would also need an atomisation of the [Russian] empire into many small bodies and above all the introduction of parliamentarian nonsense, including the compulsion for everyone to read his newspaper while eating his breakfast.

Today these observations immediately strike us as all too pertinent. We can no longer assume that the sovereign, independent and democratic nation-state is the end of history, or that empires of various sorts are bound to decline. If Russia looks like a lumbering and wounded monster, then, equally, the West seems to be facing acute cultural division and a decline in the effectiveness of its public sphere. Which is the more fatal decadence?

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As a European himself, Nietzsche certainly did not face the prospect of an ultimate Russian triumph with equanimity. But he thought that it could only be resisted if Europe itself moved from competing nation-state politics to become equally threatening by fusing into a single will which one has to mean an imperial will. It is in this sense that Nietzsche was indeed not a proto-Nazi, even if his prejudices operated at a more European level and demanded the emergence of something like a more spiritual, armed, and authoritarian European Union.

On the other hand, Nietzsche also viewed the rise of Russia with a certain exaltation and glee. From the beginning to the end of his philosophy, he argued that the real high-points of the European past -- Greece of the Tragic era, Imperial Rome, the Renaissance -- had involved a certain tempered infusion of what he regarded as the barbaric, orgiastic, and unremittingly stern and forceful elements of the Asiatic. From that perspective, Russia is not just a menace to Europe but offers it something that it needs if it is to revive. This something can be found in what Nietzsche found valuable in the novels of Dostoevsky and that was certainly not their Christian dimension.

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One of the things Nietzsche draws attention to is Russias different timescale, its patience that derives from a power to will that has been stored and accumulated for ages

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One can question, at least in part, the Orientalism involved here and the dark romantic tendency to fantasise about an East which would be the opposite of the Platonic and Christian: indifferent to good and evil, to historical time, particularity and personality. To a considerable degree, this is indeed a caricature. Yet the striking thing is the way in which the East itself has sometimes appropriated this image of itself: witness the popularity of Arthur Schopenhauer and Martin Heidegger in the East. But also of Nietzsche. In the case of Russia, he has enjoyed continuous popularity ever since the late 19th century. And surely his philosophy is a crucial ingredient in the Eurasianism of Lev Gumilyov and Alexander Dugin some of the thinkers said to represent Putins ideology. Not only did Nietzsche suggest an irreducible plurality of national values, such that their violent clash is inevitable, he also rooted those values in a natural linkage of race, soil, diet, and climate. And despite this materialism, he fused an anti-humanism from below with a post-humanism from above, hinting allegorically and inconsistently (especially in Thus Spake Zarathustra) at the work of ineffably local spiritual forces as incubating the emergent over-man.

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These three things: a pluralist relativism of values, a supposedly materialist insistence on the determinism of race and geography, and an obscure invocation of transcendent ethnic spirit are precisely what tends to define the Eurasianist ideology. The Russian imperial fusion of diverse ethnicities is supposed to mediate between a European universalism and an Asiatic particularism.

Their continuity with Nietzsche is therefore clear. Above all they share with him a denial that our vital, erotic and domineering energies can be sublimated and re-directed towards the shaping of social harmony at a level that transcends our ethnic and national differences.

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As a European himself, Nietzsche certainly did not face the prospect of an ultimate Russian triumph with equanimity. But he thought that it could only be resisted if Europe itself moved from competing nation-state politics to become equally threatening

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From this perspective, the struggle against Putin and his ideological enablers is a struggle against the Eastern export of European fantasies and our most dangerously irresponsible refusal of our central legacy of faith in and partial, if fragile, achievement of a civilised status quo of harmony and peace. The ideas driving Russias war against Ukraine are more European than many would like to admit.

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Successive chief ministers of Kerala Pennirayi Vijayan, Ommenn Chandy, V S Acchuthanandan and

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German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

The popular perception around the recent crackdown on the Popular Front of India (PFI) by the National Investigation Agency (NIA,) and the subsequent ban on it again illustrates this philosophical position.

People given to an overload of social media narratives tend to believe that the NIA has acted under the influence of the ruling political party and the opposition including the left do not endorse are opposed the crackdown and ban. Nothing could be far from the truth than this one. The left parties, especially CPI(M), have been the first and the most vocal votaries of banning the PFI. Congress has also raised similar demands.

On 19 August 2010, M. B. Rajesh of CPI(M), who is a minister in the Kerala government, said in Lok Sabha, The Popular Front of India is an organization having close links with the international terror network. They are receiving huge amounts of money from abroad. They are getting money and coordinating their activities under the cover of NGOs and Human Rights movements. Only Central agencies like NIA or CBI can enquire into their international connections and foreign sources of funding.

The CPI(M) MPs demand didnt raise any eyebrows since it had been the stand of his party. In 2010 July, Kerala Chief Minister VS Achuthanandan (CPM) said: "They (PFI) want to turn Kerala into a Muslim-majority state in 20 years. They are using money and other inducements to convert people to Islam. They even marry women from outside their community to increase the Muslim population." Interestingly, this comment was later defended by the present CM of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan.

Back in time, in the CPI(M) led regime, in the Shahan Sha A vs State Of Kerala case of 2009, the Kerala Police told the High Court that activities of PFI were being funded by foreign agencies to forcibly convert people.

Clipping from Lok Sabha records of debate on PFI

The attitude of Congress was no different. In 2012, Oommen Chandy, of Congress-led Kerala Government banned PFIs Freedom Parade in different districts of Kerala. The Freedom Parade had been organized by PFI on 15 August since its inception. The government told the High Court that the decision was based on an intelligence report about the motives of this parade. In April 2013, Congress-led Kerala Government carried out multiple raids in the state on the alleged terrorist arms training center of PFI. At least 21 PFI members were charged with stringent UAPA for their alleged involvement in terrorist activities.

In 2018, the leftist government of Kerala demanded the Union Government of India ban PFI for its alleged terrorist links. In a meeting with PM Narendra Modi and the then HM Rajnath Singh, Kerala Police Chief, Lokanath Behera, gave a detailed presentation on the PFIs growth and activities in the State '', the Outlook reported. The Hindu reported, Kerala has pressed for a ban on the PFI and we are examining the case, said Mr. Rijiju, the Minister of State for Home Affairs.

The alleged terrorist links are being investigated by NIA but the perception that it was a politically motivated action does not seem plausible. In face of demands by almost all the major political players of the country and reports by the local police, NIA has taken years to examine and act upon the case. The courts have yet to decide on the fate of PFI but one thing is sure in the political arena, they are up against the whole universe. Left, Right, and Centre of Indian Politics were demanding action against PFI for a long.

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"There's the church. There's the steeple. Open it up, and look at all the people!"

The time-tested playful teaching tool, necessitating the use of both hands, is still used by people with small children.

Building upon the metaphor, the truth is there are fewer people to see nowadays.

It is to be readily admitted that religious faith and going to worship are different things.

A fair-minded reader will note at least a loose relationship between the two ideas, however.

In the course of my work at the Southeast Missourian, information about the current religious attitudes of people occasionally pops up and intrigues me.

Case in point: according to Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS), much has changed in 20 years when it comes to publicly identifiable faith professions.

Two English-speaking nations, Australia and our own country, are offered for your examination.

In the Southern Hemispheric nation's 2021 Census, 38.9% of Aussies identified as having "no religion," up from 15.5% in 2001.

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Christianity still claims 43.9% of Australia's citizenry, with Roman Catholics accounting for 20% of that figure and Anglicanism (Episcopalianism in the U.S.) with just under 10%.

By any measure, and this writer makes no claim to the accuracy of ABS' statistics, the drop in identification by two-fifths of the populace with a specific religious group is staggering.

In the U.S., the respected Pew Research Center shows adherence to religious faith -- never mind the private practice of the same -- is following a similar arc, albeit with a stronger representation by self-identified Christians.

The following statement is found in a Sept. 13 article, "Modeling the Future of Religion in America," on Pew's website.

"Since the 1990s, large numbers of Americans have left Christianity to join the growing ranks of U.S. adults who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or 'nothing in particular.' This accelerating trend is reshaping the U.S. religious landscape, leading many people to wonder what the future of religion in America might look like."

This columnist is occasionally asked to preach in the Cape Girardeau area -- not often, though, and what I'm requested to do is plenty enough.

I've noticed some things in those churches and yes, things have definitely changed, probably permanently.

The pandemic has driven, out of necessity, churches to stream worship services when it was deemed unhealthy, perhaps even potentially lethal, to gather in groups.

Even as the pandemic eased and people began returning to their houses of worship, some continued to stay home and have watched from the comfort of their homes. It's a permanent change, I reckon.

I know of an area congregation who did return to in-person worship that still does not sing hymns congregationally for fear of spreading of the COVID-19 virus. That's truly an abundance of caution but wise, given the age of its members.

The impact of the twin bombshells of COVID, now considered endemic and "low risk" in Cape Girardeau County, plus the explosion in congregational ability to reach members remotely via Zoom and other methods, has altered what Pew calls "the religious landscape."

I'm not ready to say the sky is falling, nor am I prepared to throw in the towel.

There is a church within walking distance of my home that is without a gainfully employed pastor, and it seems to be doing just fine despite COVID, despite streaming worship, et al.

Others, admittedly, have struggled; some have closed.

In my religious tradition, these words may be found in liturgy: "The church is of God and will be preserved to the end of time."

An oft-told story about philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche, which is probably urban legend, has it that the 19th century German once said, "The church is dead."

Knowing the resilience of church people, witnessed during my long tenure leading congregations, leads me to take an opposing view.

To wit: "Nietzsche is dead."

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Those who read philosophy will often notice a recurring mention of nature. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke have their states of nature. Hegel has a philosophy of nature. Nietzsche stresses the importance of interpreting nature. Ancient Chinese philosophers see the structure of language as being reflective of the structure of nature. This is an arbitrarily formed list: Readers will surely have other examples spring to mind. This incessant talk of nature throughout the history of the field of philosophy should serve as a tip off that nature is worth thinking about.

The mention of nature, or should I say Nature, that I would like to focus on comes from an interview given by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. There is no school that is worth its existence, except as it is a form of Nature study, he says. Going even further, he describes this capital n Nature as being, all the body of God that were ever going to see. It is worthwhile to take a moment to reflect on whether our own, or your own, course of study is a form of Nature study. In order to do this, we must first understand just what Wright means.

Let us first think about the role that nature (or Nature) has likely played for us. Nature acts as the great humbler in our lives. But also, the great supporter. Our first love, and our first enemy. Nature brings wonders such as snow when we are children. It gets us out of going to school. It provides bugs, birds, and legged animals for us to be in awe over. It also brings storms and lightning and deadly disasters. Events that bring us disappointment and fear and tragedy. Nature does all of these things with complete indifference. Reminding us that we are simply here. We are not consequential.

Despite this potentially dour affectation of nature, I have always been in love with n/Nature. This is surely inspired by my upbringing in rural West Virginia. From years of being surrounded by natural beauty. By the feeling of breathlessness that to this day accompanies the feeling of looking out over the river by my childhood home.

I can navigate to that particular spot with my eyes closed. You walk across the field. Down into the inlet. Across to the first island. If you go around, you wont get your clothes wet. Make the leap over the notch the water has carved in the pointed edge of the first island. And when you walk out on the edge, that is when it hits you. The clouds. The sweeping mountain scene. The blue sky. The expanse. You are hit with a feeling of being unimportant in the most beautiful way. No matter what you do, that scene will be there. And you realize that not mattering is exactly what you needed in that moment. Sometimes, we must be reminded that we are not the center of the world.

In keeping with this existential Copernican revolution, we can look to our own Harvard Yard for a similar sentiment. What is man that thou art mindful of him. This is inscribed on Emerson Hall, the philosophy building at Harvard. The message is something that any good naturalist should adhere to. A thought surely had by anyone who has gazed upon a scene such as my mountain vista. This is edging closer to Wrights Nature. The Nature that is the only body of God we are ever going to get to see.

For those readers who are thinking to themselves, There is no way I am going to study biology, let us return to providing a definition of Nature study. A useful, analogous sentiment to that of Wrights can be sourced from mathematician Jean-Pierre Serre: While other sciences search for the rules that God has chosen for the Universe, we Mathematicians search for the rules that even God has to obey.

In Serres line, we see a shift from regarding nature as merely the things outdoors to what Wright wants us to see it as: the root of our experienced phenomena. Nature study can therefore occur in something as seemingly far removed as abstract, pure mathematics or something as applied as computational microbiology.

The motivation for this kind of study is the awe and wonder that can be felt standing at the edge of my river. Or the feeling of amazement when you complete a math proof. Or when you finish a breathtaking novel. There is not a set list of forms of Nature study. You will not find it as an addendum to your universitys course of study listing.

Wright gives no further guideline of what to study, to do so would in a sense be ludicrous. Instead, he leaves it as an exercise to us to ensure that what we are doing, that the education we are receiving, is a form of Nature study.

Henry A. Cerbone 23, a special concentrator in Ontology of Autonomous Systems, lives in Adams House. His column "Academic Flotsam" appears on alternate Wednesdays.

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