the mantle................

 

Science, right from the beginning of the modern enterprise, was allotted the role that the Church had previously claimed for itself: the primary guide to truth, and the enlightener of humanity.  More than a method, it was a faith.  It remains one today, which is why arguments around scientific questions, from COVID to climate change, are often so vexed and divisive.  Each of us wants to claim the mantle of 'science' for our perspective because of the authority it bestows.  'Follow the Science' usually translates in practice as 'follow me'.

-Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine

Peer pressure.........................

..............is alive and well in the money management world.

Follow..........................................

The disciple, the would-be initiate, approaches the master and says:  "Teach me."
     And the teacher replies:  "Come, follow me."
     Sometimes, the newcomer tries to insist:  "No, I mean tell me."
     And the adept can only smile a welcoming love that cannot be "told."
     More often, like the good and intelligent aspirant in Luke's gospel, the now-no-longer-neophyte turns sadly away.
     Spirituality is a reality that one approaches not be "learning," but by following.

-Kurtz and Ketcham,  The Spirituality of Imperfection:  Storytelling and the Search for Meaning

thanks doug

As the world turns............................

The history books suggest that maybe this could have been true when I was a wee lad.  I know it wasn't  so when I was in college.  Seems like it could be true again.  From Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, Compensation:

"The preacher, a man esteemed for his orthodoxy,..........."

Tough duty..................

"Poor is the student who does not surpass his master."
-Leonardo Da Vinci

Leadership..........................