I think we can all agree, there's something infinitely depressing about the fact that even in one of the most progressive industries in the world, we're still debating the treatment of women.
"The sexuality debate is infinitely complicated by high levels of mutual ignorance..
Mary Astell (1668-1731), for example, was a poet and philosopher whose book "A Serious Proposal to the Ladies" informs its female readers that the life of the mind is "a Matter infinitely more worthy your Debates, than what Colours are most agreeable, or what's the Dress becomes you best".
But is infinite information infinitely valuable?
The word 'depression' has a bit of a dry, clinical ring to it these days, but this book is infinitely larger than any contemporary debate over serotonin — it's really a history of human sadness.
It's easy to overlook right now, but the quality of the policy debate between competing progressive contingents is infinitely better and more interesting than the policy debate between Democrats and Republicans, which has unfolded in depressing ways over the last eight or nine months.
Worse, the debate has been made infinitely more difficult by illusions that both the I.R.A. and the Unionists seem unable to overcome.
Consider an infinitely large population of haploids.
Those engaged in the debate over whether lines are infinitely divisible or ultimately reducible to points of finite size recognize that there are insoluble paradoxes opposed to each point of view.
As infinitely shitty as our politicians may be, no debate on the floor of the House of Representatives has ever ended in such a mess.
As President, however, he is faced with an infinitely larger challenge, one that went unmentioned in the debates but that poses a graver threat than any "fiscal cliff".
