Another great provocation Grant. Fact is there are a lot of cliffs, a lot of storms, and lot of opportunity, and lot of tragedy on the horizon. We have the tools to blunt the negative but generally choose not to use them. That’s the current common sense. Uncommon are the one percenters. Those willing to build early warning systems, those willing to rebuild sensibilities, those willing to pre-empt the inevitable with beneficial intervention. The upside/downside of vision and action/inaction is extraordinary. Thanks for the post, keep ‘em coming!
I have had a similar observation as your take on the death of common sense. For me, it is our rejection of imagination. And by that, I don't mean in the artistic sense, although I could argue that we have a problem there too. A prime example is the dearth of imagination in government. I wonder what might have happened on September 11th, if there had been an elite unit within the military whose sole purpose was to imagine the unimaginable? Tom Clancy did this all the time. Hollywood screenwriters. Television showrunners. But no. Instead we were content with the conventional wisdom while our enemies out-imagined us.
Another great provocation Grant. Fact is there are a lot of cliffs, a lot of storms, and lot of opportunity, and lot of tragedy on the horizon. We have the tools to blunt the negative but generally choose not to use them. That’s the current common sense. Uncommon are the one percenters. Those willing to build early warning systems, those willing to rebuild sensibilities, those willing to pre-empt the inevitable with beneficial intervention. The upside/downside of vision and action/inaction is extraordinary. Thanks for the post, keep ‘em coming!
I have had a similar observation as your take on the death of common sense. For me, it is our rejection of imagination. And by that, I don't mean in the artistic sense, although I could argue that we have a problem there too. A prime example is the dearth of imagination in government. I wonder what might have happened on September 11th, if there had been an elite unit within the military whose sole purpose was to imagine the unimaginable? Tom Clancy did this all the time. Hollywood screenwriters. Television showrunners. But no. Instead we were content with the conventional wisdom while our enemies out-imagined us.