“emotion clouds the rational, and many perspectives guide the full reality. To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy. It is to know the past and to use such relevant history as a template for expectations. It is, most of all, to force reason ahead of instinct, to refuse to demonize that which you hate, and to, most of all, accept your own fallibility.” KnowsReasonUseRealityPastHateForceViewsEmotionAcceptingEnemyEventsPerspectiveExpectationsAccountsInstinctCloudsCurrentsRefuseGuidesRationalHistorianRelevantFallibilityCurrent Events Book:The Orc King: Transitions Source: The Orc King: Transitions
“Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.” WorldChildrenStatesLightPurposeGamesForceSportsWealthPerfectUnitedBusinessPayDarknessUnited StatesFansIllusionExpectationsAccountsRemainsInnocenceTriumphPreservesMotivational SportsRitualImmenseCeremonyPlausiblePortrayalBlameless Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.” ScienceAnswersFindingsExpectationsAccountsBlindnessSpectacles Author:J. Frank Dobie