Aweh, Dear Ruminants and Groupies First, someone abuses their power It starts with someone throwing their weight around. Abusing their authority. An official bullies people, applies rules selectively, or treats public authority as a personal franchise. Someone gets pushed around because the official can apparently get away with it. You object. Perhaps it happened toContinue reading “Ruminations on Kafkaesque Treacle and the Art of Exhausting a Great Marlin”
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Ruminations on March and March and the seductive pleasure of not thinking
Aweh, Dear Ruminants and Groupies, The American columnist David Brooks has observed that many people seem remarkably uninterested in the hard work of thinking, finding it far easier to outsource that burden to whoever offers the simplest explanation. Thinking requires holding contradictory ideas simultaneously. It requires tolerating uncertainty. It requires sitting with the discomfort thatContinue reading “Ruminations on March and March and the seductive pleasure of not thinking”
