Your paragraph beginning “I’m …too much of a numbers guy…” is much appreciated by this old, balding, science/math guy… Good questions in that paragraph! (Some of our local politicians are parroting the same things. Sigh.)
The “Team” aspect that politics has become is spot on. It’s a sad commentary on what humans are. Politics has evolved—or perhaps devolved is a better word—into something akin to football.
Perhaps sports itself is a release of a pent-up tribalism rooted in us…an aggressive tribalism that traces back to the days we transitioned from much simpler hunter-gatherer types to warring clans who would fight and take the fields, food, and homes of others so we could survive and reproduce. [Does social science say much about this?]
Your list of coming newsletters is—to me—ambitious in that short time frame. Give yourself a little rest!
Thanks once again for making me think in new ways. God bless!
Your paragraph beginning “I’m …too much of a numbers guy…” is much appreciated by this old, balding, science/math guy… Good questions in that paragraph! (Some of our local politicians are parroting the same things. Sigh.)
The “Team” aspect that politics has become is spot on. It’s a sad commentary on what humans are. Politics has evolved—or perhaps devolved is a better word—into something akin to football.
Perhaps sports itself is a release of a pent-up tribalism rooted in us…an aggressive tribalism that traces back to the days we transitioned from much simpler hunter-gatherer types to warring clans who would fight and take the fields, food, and homes of others so we could survive and reproduce. [Does social science say much about this?]
Your list of coming newsletters is—to me—ambitious in that short time frame. Give yourself a little rest!
Thanks once again for making me think in new ways. God bless!