Ever since I read "Flowers for Algernon" twenty years ago, I have known that being foolish does not necessarily mean being unhappy, nor does being intelligent guarantee happiness.
Speaking of calculating the day of the week, I remember seeing someone on TV about twenty years ago who could correctly tell you the day of the week for any given date. I doubt they were doing such complex calculations, so they might have had a special method. If I recall correctly, it was a young boy with savant syndrome, so he might have simply memorized an incredible number of patterns...
There is something genuinely stirring about what humanity builds when looking up to technology, be it a symbolic creation or a feat of engineering. I am deeply fond of these paper gears.
