Robin's Little Red Recycling Book - Thirteen Threads of Page One.

The evolution (or devolution) of blogging to 280 characters (Twitter Maximum) has had positive and negative impacts on wisdom.

It does create a mental talent for pruning excess verbiage, which was always my bane in high school and college. My dad, "Doctor I" had a habit of crossing out the word "that" in books and articles, as if to keep a trove of "that" pages he would have saved being printed, like trees saved by recycling tons.

It also gives wind to oversimplification, and "black and white" (almost literally, but not literally) opinions.

Intolerance is increasingly treated as a virtue, both on the "left" and on the "right".  I can tolerate intolerance for things that are truly black and white, like torture of children and extinction of species and destruction (e.g. via mining) of habitat. I cannot tolerate the idea of "endangered species platter" in restaurant tourism. But I have to consider the domestication of wild species (Tiger King is nearly intolerable, but might have preserved the very last tiger DNA in a future paradigm) as a possible "seed bank", and realize it's funded by Chinese restaurant tourism (watched "Wet Markets" documentary on VICE over the weekend).\

So my "little red book" (allusion to Chairman Mao's pocketbook of "wisdoms") is already tripping out of the gate this morning. I intended to write a blog of one-liners. The yin and yang of nuance - a derivative of opinions between nuanced and unnuanced - is an intellectual exercise that isn't popular on twitter.  But my Facebook posts are getting shorter and shorter.  (Last weekend's one-syllabal post was "Dude!" with a link to Robert Smalls bio on Wikipedia).

So let's give this a try... single sentence, twitter-thread-worth wisdoms for Robin's Little Red Recycling Book.  Some I'll recognize as gems buried in 1500 blogs over 15 years. Some are borrowed or stolen, like the Wikipedia screenshot below (the irony of Mao's Red Book image not being freely distributed is irresistible - virtuos intolerance redux).

- The worst recycling is better than the best mining.

- If it doesn't displace raw material extraction, it isn't recycling.

- Landfill scarcity was just a stepping stone to public financing of recycling.

- Recycling would operate without public cost if raw material subsidies ended. 

- Two subsidies don't make a "right". 

- The best job for a valedictorian in a poor society is to own and fix a rich person's broken thing.

- The General Mining Act of 1872, passed during the Apache Indian Wars, gave up public royalties on federal lands and bankrupted CERCLA Superfund, while permanently putting a chokehold on private recycling investments.

- Hypothesize that our current generations habitating the planet will be judged by a super intellect, an intelligence so rich in hindsight that time exists like all of the pages of a book, at once on the shelf.

- Everything we write and tweet will someday be read in an instant by a Singularity of intelligence which will emerge from Moore's Law exponentially, as computer AI learns to write its own code.

- The single biggest mistake any society has made is to deny opportunities to citizens (e.g. women) who had the capacity to compete with the weakest members of the ruling class (e.g. men).

- Narratives are the yoke of the priestatollah's authority.

- "All right then, I'll go to hell." (Huckleberry Finn).

- Popularity is a poor predictor of future value.