Ravings of a Textual Deviant

Perfectionism is a bad idea, at least for certain definitions of perfect. Like the one that goes “without errors, flaws, or faults.” If you’re using that definition of perfect, then any change makes you imperfect. And expecting change not to occur is wildly unrealistic at best. On the other hand, if your definition of perfect is “complete and lacking nothing essential,” then perfection starts to look like a reasonable goal. And if you’re a mycologist, and your definition of perfect is “describes a fungus that reproduces both sexually and asexually during its life cycle,” then you probably need to get out more.

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