+++ date = "2022-10-22T00:01:35+00:00" lastmod = "2022-10-22T00:01:36+00:00" tags = [ "musings" ] author = "tdro" +++ It's mesmerizing how an appeal to human nature can also be an appeal to contradiction itself. Humans operate in perpetual extremes and contradictions --- if everyone wants decentralization today, they'll eventually want centralization tomorrow, and vice versa. Philosophically, it's an airtight appeal because the contradiction can be anything time/history allows.