Idea Province

I have more ideas than I'll ever use: ideas for movies, inventions, utopias, T-shirts, businesses, and more. I could hoard them, but what would be the point? If you have ideas that you're squandering, send them to me - Rhys Southan - at mrsouth (-at-) gmail (-dot-) com. I'll post them for the world to take... if the world has any use for them.

December 11, 2007

The two extremes of human behavior

The other night I was talking to Esme Rilke about how Reform Jewish parents would feel about their kids marrying an Orthodox Jew or becoming Orthodox.

“Well, any time you go to extremes, it’s never good,” Esme said.

“So would you say that being an Orthodox Jew is one extreme, and being a non-Jew is the other extreme?” I asked.

I like imagining a chart with a Hasidic Jew on one end, and a WASP-y guy on the opposite end, with all the more moderate behaviors (Reform Jew, Conservative Jew) in between.

4 years ago

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