Volume 5 · The Great Indian Bazaar · Essay 91
Gene Autocorrect Problem
Every problem has a door labelled with its own name. Gene Autocorrect Problem is such a door, and it opens.
The problem persists because it is usually treated as someone else's. Once you accept that the naming of it includes you, solutions stop being exotic and start being obvious.
Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.
Stand at a tea stall during a big cricket match and you will see a hundred strangers become one family in an evening. The same crowd, given a different match, can split over a surname.
Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. Print it on a card if you like. Better: print it on a habit.