by Think In The Morning | Jan 28, 2021 | More |
Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise. Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College Abiding in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned, fools go aimlessly hither and thither, like blind led by the blind. Katha...
by Think In The Morning | Dec 31, 2020 | More |
“My favourite line in all of literature is Rudyard Kipling’s monkey: ‘My people are the wisest people in the jungle, my people have always said so.’” Joni Mitchell For the past few days I’ve been rereading Joan Didion. The White Album, Slouching Towards...
by Think In The Morning | Nov 11, 2020 | More |
I knew Nobel economist Kenneth Arrow slightly when I was an undergraduate student at Stanford. I was greatly impacted by his book Social Choice and Individual Values at the time and have referred back to it often. In simple terms one of his most famous theories...
by Think In The Morning | Jun 24, 2020 | More |
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Senator Daniel Patrick MoynihanThere are: no facts, only interpretations. Friedrich Nietzsche What happened to our “shining city upon a hill?” The concept was always a myth but one that held us...
by Think In The Morning | May 22, 2020 | Words |
It is the autumn of 1918 and a world war and an influenza epidemic rage outside the isolated utopian logging community of Commonwealth, Wash. In an eerily familiar climate of fear, rumor and patriotic hysteria, the town enacts a strict quarantine, posting guards at...
