Thinking about the future is very important, but talking about it doesn't
make much sense when people have stopped thinking and merely assert what
they believe to be true.
For example, you could easily divide up the participants in the earlier
debates into a small number of groups and identify which post came from
which group. I think you have a hard time finding anybody who
demonstrated any change in their thinking as a result of any of the
communications.
So is not a matter of thinking about the future, but rather insisting that
everybody else adopt a specific vision.
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:15:52PM -0700, Brad DeLong wrote:
>
> No. It's an attempt to *think* about the future.
>
> If you want to make not thinking about the future a virtue, go ahead...
>
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