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The greatest weakness of ET, IMO, is an inability to maintain a balance between politics/economics/science, and the arts/humanism/infotainment interests. I call it boxers v wrestlers.

Or Classic v Romantic

Classic (which focuses on the underlying function) and Romantic (which focuses on the outer-lying form)

so that

"Although motorcycle riding is romantic," Pirsig writes, "motorcycle maintenance is purely classic."
by ChrisCook (cojockathotmaildotcom) on Fri May 9th, 2008 at 08:58:12 AM EST
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Yep. And the romantic heretics are largely the one's who have been on the inside of a process and found it didn't work ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Fri May 9th, 2008 at 09:45:34 AM EST
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