Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Part 2)

I finished another 30 pages.   The book is so deep.  It's obvious to me it is written by someone with great wisdom.  Many issues such as the purpose of education system, the university system and our technologies were explained.  This book opens my mind.

The feeling of not knowing something and obsessively want to understand run so deep to many technical people.   Some of them never realize that in their whole lives.   We just let time by to allow ourselves, for good and bad, not understand something.   That's why I feel anxious.   That's why I feel life is meaningless.   That's why I feel all the sudden deep thought doesn't come to me.  It is deep-seeded.

It is also when a person stopped to be in the flow.  When does the flow stop?

Perhaps it starts when a person think that remembering a formula is equivalent to understanding.  Or it could be the moment when we hear the phrase, hasta la vista, we can only think of Arnie.  Or when we heard of Asian, we think solely of one race, one country.   Or when we use a push in perl.  Or the funny syntax in perl 5.0 which a one-liner can do both replacement and assign without understanding. (i.e.  ($a = $b) =~ s/abc/xyz/g).  Or feeling confused about obfuscated code.  Or feeling frustrated when people named a new idea.  Or feeling obliged to pay mortgage without knowing why we have mortgage.  Frustrated by the economy without knowing what money is.   Write the C-code, don't know  what the compiler will do.  Or write the Assembly code, but doesn't know how the machine takes it.  Or know how the machine takes it, but doesn't know what it was designed this way.

We are immersed in systematically designed increasingly deepened abstraction.   They are always shallow by definition.   Only when you learn how it was created without applying the rules suggested by the others.   Then you start to understand the nature.

That's why I am so frustrated because I don't understand all of these.  More importantly, I or perhaps you misthought that not understanding them can solve any problems.  It never does my friend.  We are meant to know, to understand and finally come up with sublimed thought that conclude what we are thought and understood in our lives.   Be it an idea, a paper, a research, a program, a company, something or anything.