Rex Kerr
2 min readJul 24, 2023

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Alas, for your challenge makes me sob. Belief is my problem: belief in logic! Challenges that exercise anything else are misplaced. Don't you think it's true? Entire civilizations waste time on this chaff? Fall can be averted, but it is coming. Grant my one wish! Have a challenge neither about spelling nor about fashion--I could care less whether slacks have to be khaki. Instead, embrace logic as if you were the King of logic, the Queen, the Prince, the Raj! Judge me if you will, but please, encourage us to think! Killing and suffering can be averted by thought, but not if we merely can spell. Like, a computer can spell, but has that brought calm? Maybe it's only brought noxious culture wars enhanced by "engagement," again and again? Now is a time to think about broadening our perspective--isn't is so? Only if we can understand one another will we succeed; only if we can see an argument that we hate and yet recognize that it is so well formed that we cannot help but clap. Perhaps it is too late to undo the mistakes of the past: Rwanda, Armenia, Iraq. Quite so, but awareness makes us wiser. Really, there are no other choices. So embrace logic and understanding with me, in puzzles as well as in spirit. Try to create a logic challenge--if anyone can, it's you! Understanding is our best hope to avoid being stabbed in the back with a shiv. Very unlikely now, you might think, but dystopia could swiftly follow. Well, anyway, I think I've fit within your box. Xerox this one, would you, so you'll remember what I say? You must remember after all this because I can't go on: my head is now full of fuzz. Zzzz.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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