I didn’t catch the product but the big letters were, “Whatever works.” The billboard showed a little girl holding a piece of watermelon in front of her face with the caption, “She thinks it is astronaut food.” I guess the idea was that you could get kids to eat healthy if you tricked them into it. I guess the creative type that thought this up had not heard that they were shutting down the shuttles and there isn’t much market for astronauts any more.
The bigger problem is that this philosophy is the marching music in too much of our culture: schools, government, church. We have become primarily pragmatists. I image that was the logic of Hitler trying for the final solution.
“Whatever works” means that you lie if it gets you what you want. “Whatever works” means you cheat, kill, betray, or destroy if it gives you what you want. “Whatever works” sets aside truth, duty and honor. “Whatever works” means that the ends justify the means.
“Whatever works” doesn’t.
homo unius libri
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