In my pursuit if something other than work on this rainy, (again) Sunday morning, I went to the Sunday NYT and read an article entitled ALMOST HUMAN By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL.
I honestly believed it was going to be an article containing original thought. It wasn‘’t. It was a review of other writings that may have contained original thoughts.
When our local church changed ministers, I was hoping for a fresh prospective, a few more original thoughts. Unfortunately I was treated to a series of somewhat related soundbytes, connected by quotations and review.
There was a time when articles, especially on Sundays in the NYT, contained original thoughts. But perhaps all of the original thoughts have been used up. I should check with Google. They would know.
Many years ago, when I could be found leaning against oak bars at four in the morning on New York‘’s Upper East Side, a recently retired assassin for the Israeli government regaled on just this subject.
He bemoaned the lack of innovational thinking that used to run his country. He said it was all taken away by the need to be in a state of constant defense. He hoped this would never happen to the US.
This was before 9/11, before Katrina, before government by cabal.
(See today‘’s article regarding statements made by a former aide to ex-Secretary of State Colin Powell.)
Perhaps the lack of original thought is a result of this feeling of constantly being on the defense. Oddly enough, I would ha’ve thought the opposite. The need to defend your home, your city, your country, should excite the brain, should make it want to come up with all sorts of divergent mental exercises. Perhaps it did, for a while, perhaps we just ran out of steam.
Perhaps I don‘’t know what the hell I am writing about. Don‘’t ever forget that last sentence when reading anything any where, especially on The Net.
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