Portal #12 Gizmo Widget Gadget

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first there was “gadget”

francaise- then “gizmo” to quirk

you to “widget’s” way!

noun: widget; plural noun: widgets
a small gadget or mechanical device, especially one whose name is unknown or unspecified.
Computing:
an application, or a component of an interface, that enables a user to perform a function or access a service.

(reached its heaviest use in the 1980’s)

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noun: gizmo; plural noun: gizmos;
a gadget, especially one whose name the speaker does not know or cannot recall.
“the latest multimedia gizmo”
Origin
1940s (originally US): of unknown origin.
(still reaching its heaviest use in 2016)

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noun: gadget; plural noun: gadgets
a small mechanical device or tool, especially an ingenious or novel one.
“a state-of-the-art kitchen with every conceivable gadget”
synonyms:    appliance, apparatus, instrument, implement, tool, utensil, contrivance, contraption, machine, mechanism, device, labor-saving device, convenience, invention; More
informal gizmo, widget
Origin: French
 (19th century nautical use “gagee” or tool)

(heaviest use: 1950’s)

 

Portals

illustrator: Julie Rowan Zoch (ROZO)

The portal that weds power and submission: LOVE

The  philosopher Georg Hegel  was born in Stuttgart (1770). He started out as a theologian, particularly interested in how Christianity is a religion based on opposites: sin and salvation, earth and heaven, finite and infinite.

He believed that Jesus had emphasized love as the chief virtue because love can bring about the marriage of opposites.

Hegel eventually went beyond theology and began to argue that the subject of philosophy is reality, and he hoped to describe how and why human beings create communities and governments, make war, destroy each other’s societies, and then build themselves up to do it all over again.

He came up with the concept of dialectic,

the idea that all human progress is driven by the conflict between opposites,

that each political movement is imperfect and so gives rise to a counter movement that takes control — and that is also imperfect — and gives rise to yet another counter movement, and so on to infinity.

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx argued that the most important dialectic of history was between worker and master, rich and poor, and their ideas led to the birth of

communism.