FLAW
SPECIAL CHAPTER Seeking the Flawless Perhaps the oldest habit in human history is not lighting a fire or inventing the wheel. Perhaps there is a habit that began long before any of them. Comparing. Man compared everything he saw with something else. Larger... Smaller... Stronger... More beautiful... More accurate... And finally, he gave a single name to the ultimate point where all these comparisons converged: Flawless. But here, a silent question emerges. Have we truly seen what we call "flawless"? Or did we give it this name merely because we could find no flaw in it? Perhaps the word "flawless" is not the opposite of flaw. Perhaps it is simply the final stop that the search for flaws believes it has reached. Man examines a statue. He evaluates the proportions. He observes the symmetry. He looks for an error. If he cannot find one, he says: "This is flawless." He examines a mathematical theorem. He looks for a contradiction. He looks for an i...