Even reclusive schools must publish outward to be valuable.

Evidence

Even the crowd-shunning Epicurus, who taught that one shouldn’t speak in public unless requested to do so, showed some orientation toward the outside world by using his house as a base for publishing the writings of the school. It’s only for this reason that in 2018, someone (me) is reading them in another garden. It’s in this exchange that such experiments become valuable for the world, as points in a dialogue between inside and outside, real and unrealized. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 213

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims