The historian always oversimplifies, and hastily selects a manageable minority of facts and faces out of a crowd of souls and events whose multitudinous complexity he can never quite embrace or comprehend. | |
— Will Durant | |
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2019 | I Think I’m Repeating Myself |
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like X-mas! | |
2018 | No Reason To Turn |
2017 | Talking Knuth |
Seeing It Through | |
2016 | Hoping For The Best Come January |
2015 | Adaptive Security |
2014 | Wants |
2013 | Side Effects |
2012 | Just Trying To Earn A Living |
2011 | Productive Worry |
Posts Tagged ‘Complexity’
Kinda Like Posting To A Blog About My Day
Posted in History, Quotes, tagged Blogging, Complexity, Comprehension, Faces, Facts, History, Oversimplification, Quotes, Will Durant on December 7, 2020| Leave a Comment »
In All Its Messy Complexity
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Writing, tagged Complexity, Facts Still Exist, Jennifer Egan, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Time Magazine, Truth, Writing, Writing To Preserve Democracy, Writing Well on March 16, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Writers tend to fare badly under autocrats. Dictators understand very well that the strength of thought and analysis that literature embodies is a threat to the mind control that is an essential feature of tyranny. In countries like China, Russia, Turkey, Myanmar and Bangladesh, writers are routinely jailed or killed for creating work their governments find threatening. For American writers, the reality of such scrutiny and peril can be hard to fathom. We need to write now, write well — tell the truth in all its messy complexity. It’s our best shot at helping to preserve a democracy in which facts still exist and all of us can speak freely. | |
— Jennifer Egan | |
From her opinion piece / editorial: “Facts Still Exist“ | |
Appearing in: Time Magazine | |
dtd: 24 Dec / 31 Dec, 2018 (Person of the Year, double issue) | |
It also appears online at: http://time.com/5475490/writers-truth-democracy-jennifer-egan/ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Danger = Opportunity |
2017 | True And Great |
Sand At The Beach | |
2016 | There Is A Difference Between Dangerous And Frightening |
2015 | Always A Goal |
2014 | Standing Strong |
2013 | Shaken And Stirred |
The Bird With The Broken Wing | |
2012 | Friends In High Places |
2011 | Objective Independence |