CERTAINTY LEADS TO VIOLENCE -Oliver Wendell Holms
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Posted 3/15/03 -written 12/31/01 GO to full essay ...Sadly, though things such as legalized political graft are happening daily before our eyes, we really do suffer a tradition of inattention. But, now that recent events have brought home the dangers of self-distraction maybe we'll resolve to make some changes. An itinerant rabbi of Roman times
whose birthday we just celebrated, knew the drill when he said,
"...forget thinking about tomorrow, tomorrow will take care
of itself. Sufficient to this day is the evil thereof."
In other words: if we're absorbed in myths of progress while
being tossed by the force of the past, we lose sight of what's
going on right under our noses. And no new year's bender will
ever correct that. |
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