| | | > I think that when y'all say they make it up you really mean that you don't believe it because it just doesn't resonate. I'm a fan of Occam's Razor.
Totally appropriate when you're seeking out last-ditch ways forward with a narrative.
Totally inappropriate if you're reporting news. News is, by definition, comprised of things that happened, not things that might or are even most likely to happen or most likely to HAVE happened. Occam just shouldn't be there.
Paul Krugman is a highly educated, cosmopolitan winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics. Yet, he stupidly forecasted the Internet would no more important than the fax machine. Highly educated cosmopolitan idiots are in abundant supply. But the majority of them bring nothing to the table and lack reasoning ability, which I find to be a far more important skill (and one lacking among many) than knowledge of the literary classics or latest screenplays (or worse, modern textbooks on economics, where questions never change, only the answers do).
Intellect exists at levels average New Yorkers can't fathom, often co-exists with ordinary approachability. Some are referred in a derogatory tone as pedestrian. |
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