Remember..................

"Serious problems, both personal and social in nature, are not solved by repeated acts of moral surrender."

-Robert Coles,  from Harvard Diary II

Honor...............................

     Our earnest eyes scan the busy groups on the opposite slopes, breaking camp for the last time, taking down their little shelter-tents and folding them carefully as precious things, then slowly forming ranks as for unwelcome duty.  And now they move.  The dusky swarms forge forward into gray columns of march.  On they come, with the old swinging route step and swaying battle-flags.  In the van, the proud Confederate ensign - the great field of white with canton of star-strewn cross of blue on a field of red, the regimental battle-flags with the same escutcheon following on, crowded so thick, by thinning out of men, that the whole column seemed crowned with red.  At the right of our line our little group mounted beneath our flags, the red Maltese cross on field of white, erstwhile so bravely borne through many a field more crimson than itself, its mystic meaning now ruling all.
      The momentous meaning of this occasion impressed me deeply.  I resolved to mark it by some token of recognition, which could be no other than a salute of arms.  Well aware of the responsibility assumed, and of the criticisms that would follow, as the sequel proved, nothing of that kind could move me in the least.  The act could be defended, if needful, by the suggestion that such a salute was not to the cause for which the flag of the Confederacy stood, but to its going down before the flag of the Union.  My main reason, however, was one for which I sought no authority nor asked forgiveness.  Before us in proud humiliations stood the embodiment of manhood:  men whom neither toils and sufferings, nor the fact of death, nor disaster, nor hopelessness could bend from their resolve;  standing before us now, thing, worn, and famished, but erect, and with eyes looking level into ours, waking memories that bound us together as no other bond' - was not such manhood to be welcomed back into the Union so tested and assured?
      Instructions had been given;  and when the head of each division column comes opposite our group, our bugle sounds out the signal and instantly our whole line from right to left, regiment by regiment in succession, gives the soldier's salutation, from the "order arms" to the old "carry" - the marching salute.  Gordon at the head of the column, riding with heavy spirit and downcast face, catches the sound of shifting arms, looks up, and taking the meaning, wheels superbly, making with himself and his horse one uplifted figure, with profound salutation as he drops the point of his sword to the boot toe;  then facing to his own command, gives word for his successive brigades to pass us with the  same position of the manual, - honor answering honor.  On our part not a sound of trumpet more, nor roll of drum;  not a cheer, nor word nor whisper of vain-glorying, nor motion of man standing against the order, but an awed stillness rather, and breath-holding, as it were the passing of the dead!

-Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain,  The Passing Of The Armies, excerpting from the chapter "Appomattox"

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Memorial Day.............................

Fifty years ago...................

At the movies...................................................Bonnie & Clyde

Set....................................

The idea of going nowhere is, as mentioned, as universal as the law of gravity;  that's why wise souls from every tradition have spoken of it.  "All the unhappiness of men," the seventeenth-century French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal famously noted, "arises from one simple fact:  that they cannot sit quietly in their chamber."  After Admiral Richard E. Byrd spent nearly five months alone in a shack in the Antarctic, in temperatures that sank to 70 degrees below zero, he emerged convinced that "Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need."  Or, as they sometimes say around Kyoto, "Don't just do something.  Sit there."

-Pico Ilyer,  The Art of Stillness:  Adventures in Going Nowhere

Laughter...............................

Humor is important to the maturation process, whereby we learn how not to take ourselves so seriously and to laugh at ourselves, thus decreasing narcissistic defensiveness.  To be prone to "hurt feelings" is egocentric and a form of social paranoia.  When we admit our downside and learn to laugh at it, we are not longer vulnerable to slights and insults.

-David R. Hawkins

Gone, but not forgotten..................

Gregg Allman....................................................Midnight Rider

God knows, this is true......................

“You can’t have a bunch of wussy sand that falls apart when you squeeze it,” Robertson says.

-Althouse has the rest of the story - here.

Unfortunately......................

..................................................................it requires some work.

A summer reading list..................

.......................worth pondering.  Amazon will soon be consulted.

The Doctor says........................

........................................................apply these daily and life will surely be wondrous (except for #11.  Not so sure about #11).

This sounds about right............

I was one person raised by two very different people, each with a separate perspective to impress upon me, each trying to act in concert with the other, and each of whose eyes I tried to see the world through. Bringing up a son who can survive to adulthood must sometimes seem to parents little more than a dogged exercise in repetition, and an often futile but loving effort at consistency.

-Richard Ford, as shared by David Kanigan

Fifty years ago.......................

At the movies............................................................The Graduate



Simon & Garfunkle's classic here

Philosophers.....................

A philosopher is someone who says, "We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!"

-Daniel Dennett


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Irrational....................................

"It seems that I have spent my entire time trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort."

-Alfred Jules Ayer

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On seeking fairness......................

....................................in a world generally described as "unfair:"

"....despite appearances to the contrary, there is no evidence that people are bothered by economic inequality itself. Rather, they are bothered by something that is often confounded with inequality: economic unfairness."

-from this paper, Why People Prefer Unequal Societies, as pointed to by Greg Mankiw

Linking with reality................

The hard way, because it is the only way left, we (the “we are the world” we) may gradually learn that abject dependency upon computer networks was a dumb idea. 

-David Warren, from here

Gone, but not forgotten...................

Joe Cocker.............................With A Little Help From My Friends

Size matters.............................

“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.” 

-Kilgore Trout, as channeled by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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As commencement addresses go...................

............................................................this one was mighty fine:

We all believe that the system of checks and balances is a good idea for a well-functioning and prudent government. But where are the checks and balances in our own thinking — the check that whispers, “You could be wrong”; the balance that suggests, “There’s another way of thinking about it”?

thanks Kurt

Amid the beauty............................

Gardening is the handiest excuse for  being a philosopher.  Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force growing his own hemlock.  A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder.  As Samuel Spaulding, Esquire, once said, ‘Dig in the earth, delve in the soul.’  

-Ray Bradbury, as quoted here

Fifty years ago...........................

On the television...........................................The High Chaparral

Gone, but not forgotten...............

Ronnie Lane and Slim Chance.................................Debris/oh la la

Advice for graduates..................

1. Treat your day like a 9-5 job. 
2. Hang out at your local library.
3. Take long walks.
4. Teach yourself to cook.
5. Keep a journal.

Five more advices here.

Fifty years ago..............................

On the television.......................................................The Prisoner

Opening paragraphs......................

Sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour, twenty-four hours in a day, seven days in a week, fifty-two weeks in a year.  Reacher ballparked the calculation in his head and came up with a little more than thirty million seconds in any twelve-month span.  During which time nearly ten million significant crimes would be committed in the United States alone.  Roughly one every three seconds.  Not rare.  To see one actually take place, right in front of you, up close and personal, was not inherently unlikely.  Location mattered, of course.  Crime went where people went.  Odds were better in the center of a city than the middle of a meadow.

-Lee Child, from his short story Too Much Time

On solutions.......................

"Whatever I want, whatsoever problems confront me and my family, no one is going to solve them but me.  The only way I will change my circumstances for the better is through good sense and hard work."

-Steven Pressfield, as excerpted from here

thanks Andrew

Contradictions........................

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing.  As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender,  and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions.  The wisdom of it comes as you get older. 

-Kris Kristofferson

Gone, but not forgotten.................

John Wetton..............................................................Sole Survivor

Fifty years ago.........................

On the television.................................................................Mannix

More cookie wisdom.....................

Hard to disagree with this..............

....................(although I'm a bit surprised they haven't offered help re-cycling all the damn boxes around here):

Amazon’s laser-like focus on creating value for consumers and keeping them satisfied with low prices, huge selection, speedy delivery and great customer service goes a long way towards explaining its phenomenal success as a retailer, which gets reflected in the meteoric rise in its stock price and market capitalization.

-Mark J. Perry, as excerpted from here

The delicate, but all important, balance.....

Listening to Pops..........................

Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either." Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be better. That's wha' ol' Pops keeps saying.

-Louis Armstrong

Gone, but not forgotten.................

Prince..................................from the Super Bowl - Purple Rain

A clear sign..........................

“If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.”  


-Woody Allen

Ponderng the correct questions.........

“I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ And that is a very interesting question; it’s a very common one. I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?’ And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two — because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time. …"


-Jeff Bezos, as taken from this post on the dominance that is Amazon


thanks craig

Groucho said...........................

via

Fifty years ago..............................

On the television..........................................................The Invaders

Me too..............................

"I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds."

-Dizzy Gillespie

Healing............................

via

Devastating.......................

“What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.” 

-Robert E. Lee

Opening paragraphs..........................

History moves in cycles.  The plague of political correctness and assaults on free speech that erupted in the 1980s and were beaten back in the the 1990s have returned with a vengeance.  In the United States, the universities as well as the mainstream media are currently patrolled by well-meaning but ruthless thought police, as dogmatic in their views as agents of the Spanish Inquisition.  We are plunged once again into an ethical chaos where intolerance masquerades as tolerance and where individual liberty is crushed by the tyranny of the group.

-Camille Paglia, from the Introduction to Free Women Free Men:  Sex - Gender - Feminism

Gone, but not forgotten..................

Richard Manuel..............................................You Don't Know Me

If only the inverse were true......

The quant funds do less of that. The computers abstract out most of the human drama and just quietly go about picking stocks. Their understanding of human behavior is statistical, not personal; they don't befriend corporate executives on the golf course to pump them for information, but they do notice that executives with low golf handicaps tend to produce lower stock returns. 

-Matt Levine, as borrowed from this post

The most rapid alteration................

.....................................................of human behavior in history?

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Fifty years ago..............................

On the television.....................................................The Time Tunnel

The glories of...........................

.................................................................................inversion.

The keys......................................

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success."

-Herman Cain, as culled from this list of 30 Inspirational Quotes

A longish excerpt......................

............from Nick Romeo's read-worthy essay,  Platonically Irrational:  How much did Plato know about behavioural economics and cognitive biases?  Pretty much everything, it turns out.

Intellectual humility and overconfidence can stem from purely cognitive processes, but they are also correctly understood as moral achievements or failings. Someone who always thinks that he is right about everything, however little he knows, is making a moral as well as a mental mistake. Similarly, the cultivation of intellectual humility is, in part, the cultivation of an ethical virtue. Many of the early Socratic dialogues end in uncertainty: the characters are reduced to what in ancient Greek was called aporia, and is often rendered in English as ‘perplexity’, ‘bafflement’, or ‘confusion’. Socrates’ interlocutors search for a satisfying answer to some question only to find that every proposed answer fails to satisfy tests of logical consistency. Characters react in different ways to this process – some become flustered, some threaten violence, some run away, and a few recognise that they have been improved, and express gratitude to Socrates. Their false steps in the arguments dramatise errors in reasoning, but their emotional reactions are the stuff of literature: they reveal hubris and arrogance, modesty and generosity, and the dynamic struggles between these opposed impulses – what the novelist William Faulkner in 1950 called ‘the human heart in conflict with itself’.

via

Gone, but not forgotten....................

Paul Butterfield..................................................Walking Blues

Consciously, or otherwise........

At the very core of the belief in trade protectionism is a misguided desire for power, cronyism, and control and coercion over your neighbor’s buying choices.


-Mark J. Perry

Never forget...............................

We all benefit from the ability of a political minority to stifle the will of the majority. The U.S. Constitution restricts the power of the majority because an unchecked majority can be just as threatening to liberty and justice as a dictator or tyrannical oligarchy. 

-Kyle Scott, leading off this essay

Our Founders created a frustrating, muddleheaded, compromised, gridlock-prone system.  We should thank them for that gift every day.

Thanks Craig

Productivity's new disguise..............

It’s possible that the productivity increases are appearing as lower prices rather than as higher incomes. If the price of oil falls from $100 per barrel to $50 per barrel due to increasingly cheap and efficient methods of production, then everybody in the industry is more productive in terms of barrels of oil per hour of work, but since the oil price has gone down, that productivity increase won’t be captured by statistical methods that calculate productivity in terms of money.

And that is just part of the larger story: that the extraordinarily deep and sustained collapse in the price of information is disguising the enormous increase in the productivity of everyone who works with the defining product of our time. ... At the same time, the collapse in the cost of information helps disguise the enormous increase in living standards for most people. 

-Walter Russell Mead, as collected from this essay

Fifty years ago........................

On the televison........................................................Cimarron Strip

Gone, but not forgotten...................

Rick Danko.................................................................Sip the Wine

Nobody.............................

..............................................picks 'em better than Jetboy and Skip.

Life its ownself.....................................

If cartoons are your thing, check in with Bilbo every Saturday.

Likely true...........................

thanks jess

Gone, but not forgotten.....................

Jimmy Dean.........................................................................P.T. 109

Ouch............................

Althouse points to a Peggy Noonan article suggesting that our President needs to, among other things, grow up.  While reasonable people might see merits in Noonan's argument, reasonable people may also revel in the comments Althouse included:

"Many of the slithering reptiles in Washington are incendiary journalists who revel in this circus. A circus of its own making. This latest piece of yours is part of the act. But do you realize it?"

Mental orgasm..............

............An hour's view of the long strange journey of Neil Young:



thanks craig

Ah, the possibilities......................

"This quest for certainty leads many to search to confirm their own beliefs, rather than seeking out the truth through exploring the possibility that they might be wrong."

-as cut and pasted from this Tony Isola blog post

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No years wasted here...................

Amos Tversky, the late collaborator of Nobel-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, once said “the secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.”

-Morgan Housel, as culled from this blog post on the importance of thinking time

Post-truth....................................

The underlying difficulty of today’s polemics about post-truth is that many well-meaning residents of the reality-based community are talking as though it is ­always obvious and uncontroversial what is a “fact” and what isn’t. And yet the very idea of a fact is a social construct with an origin. (As the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre has written: “Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a 17th-century invention.”) Facts are fuzzy and changeable; in scientific practice, matters of truth and evidence are always at issue. The best scientific theories are social constructs. Whether they should be taken as accurately describing reality is still an unresolved debate in quantum physics; and, as the biologist Stuart Firestein has written: “All scientists know that it is facts that are unreliable. No datum is safe from the next generation of scientists with the next generation of tools.”

-Steven Poole, as excerpted from this essay

via

Fifty years ago...........................

Donovan...............................................................Sand and Foam

Gone, but not forgotten...........................

Sammy Davis, Jr..........................................................Mr. Bojangles

The perfect gift................

.................................................for the person who has everything?

     via

Shoes make the man......................

    via

Theorizing is fun...........................

.....................How did wolves become dogs?  Arguable theory here.

The blogosphere..........................

.............................................was a better place when Jade Page Press was open for business.   I hope she returns soon.

The blame..................................

.............................................................................................game.

Fifty years ago..............................

Donovan...............................................................Young Girl Blues

Gone, but not forgotten.....................

Erroll Garner........................................................................Misty

The Execupundit.........................

............................raises an interesting, and important, question:

Who in today's media-political complex inspires trust?   Suggestions?

Fifty years ago............................

Donovan...............................................................Writer In The Sun

Second order thinking...................

In the mid 1960s, Norway was a regular Scandinavian country, subsisting on an economy centered around agriculture, timber, and fishing. Life was good, but by no means out of the ordinary (apart from all you can-eat-cod buffets).   Then in the summer of 1969, while the rest of the world was focusing on hippy love, a Norwegian off-shore oil driller named the Ocean Viking struck oil in the North Sea.

Read the rest of the tale (about a fine example of second-order thinking) right here.

via

Have I told you lately.........................

........................how much I love my BP credit card.   For every hundred dollars charged on the card a reduction in gas prices is offered.   It has become my go-to credit card.   Gas hasn't been this cheap since I was in college.   Think I'll take My Sweetie out for dinner.

Sometimes I think they just make this stuff up....

Cooling Neutron Star 
 Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UNAM/Ioffe/D.Page, P. Shternin et al; Optical: NASA/STScI;
Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss Explanation: The bright source near the center is a neutron star, the incredibly dense, collapsed remains of a massive stellar core. Surrounding it issupernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A), a comfortable 11,000 light-years away. Light from the Cas A supernova, the death explosion of a massive star,first reached Earth about 350 years ago. The expanding debris cloud spans about 15 light-years in this composite X-ray/optical image. Still hot enough to emit X-rays, Cas A's neutron star is cooling. In fact, years of observations with the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory find that the neutron star is cooling rapidly -- so rapidly that researchers suspect a large part of the neutron star's core is forming a frictionless neutron superfluid. The Chandra results represent the first observational evidence for this bizarre state of neutron matter.

via the remarkable APOD blog.  Do visit it.

Gone, but not forgotten...................

George Shearing.............................................Lullaby of Birdland

Yawning is now fashionable.........

"But it is hard to resist the idea that there is a news-fatigue element to what is going on. Stocks, traditionally, have overreacted to news. A thing happened, and traders thought they were smart and over-interpreted it, and the next day something else happened and people over-interpreted it the other way. But there is just too much news now. If you over-interpreted all of it, you'd get whiplash. So a retreat into under-interpreting -- from panicking at minor news to shrugging off huge news -- seems like a natural reaction. The new way to tell yourself that you're smart is by not reacting to news"


-Matt Levine, as extracted from here

You know he is on to something...........

.............................................when even the polar bears agree!

In case you were curious...................

.....................................................my favorite optimist doesn't have much good to say about wind power:

"As for resource consumption and environmental impacts, the direct effects of wind turbines — killing birds and bats, sinking concrete foundations deep into wild lands — is bad enough. But out of sight and out of mind is the dirty pollution generated in Inner Mongolia by the mining of rare-earth metals for the magnets in the turbines. This generates toxic and radioactive waste on an epic scale, which is why the phrase ‘clean energy’ is such a sick joke and ministers should be ashamed every time it passes their lips."

-full post is here

Fifty years ago........................

Donovan..............................................................Mellow Yellow

You know the world has become...........

...............................................strange when you have to rely on Scott Adams for news analysis.

"All the important stuff is trending positive. Trump is not the sole cause of all that goodness, but he hasn’t broken anything important. That counts too. We’ve had plenty of presidents who broke stuff. Think of Nixon’s price caps, Carter’s hostage rescue mission failure, and Bush-the-younger’s Iraq war. When presidents don’t break anything, that’s a big deal."

On ideals..............................

To ponder interminably over the reason for one’s own existence or the meaning of life in general seems to me, from an objective point of view, to be sheer folly. And yet everyone holds certain ideals by which he guides his aspiration and his judgment. The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

-Albert Einstein, as culled  from this remarkable bit of writing

Moral princesses................

........................or, it must be fun having an evil twin.  If you are interested in Three Theories of Social Justice Activism, do read this.  As a bit of flavor:

Regular person: “Mmm, chicken tikka masala is delicious.”
Activist: “I can’t eat that, as doing so makes me complicit in the British colonialist legacy.”

via

Gone, but not forgotten...................

Stan Getz..............................Desafinado & The Girl From Ipanema

"the ugly underbelly"..................

.....................................................and the interesting world of investment advisement compensation.

The differences.......................

... Mr Baumol's primary intellectual focus was the entrepreneur, whose role was badly neglected by prevailing economic theories.  This he reckoned was an intolerable omission.  The differences between rich countries and poor ones rests on differences in their uses of technology, he argued, and that it is through enterprising individuals and firms that innovations go from the drawing board to active use across an economy.  Business theories, he lamented, inevitably treated people as automatons, rather than potential revolutionaries.
     Mr Baumol did better, casting entrepreneurs as crafty strivers dedicated to raising their personal status, who plot their course in life based on the incentives they face.  Policy determines whether that means climbing the bureaucracy of founding Microsoft.

-as taken from this Free Exchange essay in The Economist

Fifty years ago....................................

Love.................................................................Alone Again Or

One look at globalization..............

     In particular, it is unimaginable, at least to me, that the poverty reductions in India, China, and elsewhere could have happened without globalization.  Some argue that globalization is a neoliberal conspiracy designed to enrich a very few at the expense of the many.  If so, that conspiracy was a disastrous failure - or at least, it helped more than a billion people as an unintended consequence.  If only unintended consequences always worked so favorably.

-Angus Deaton, culled from his essay in the recent Cato's Letter, "Thinking about Inequality"

Thank you.....................

If you find yourself half naked
and barefoot in the frosty grass, hearing
again, the earth's great, sonorous moan that says
you are the air of the now and gone, that says
all you will love will turn to dust,
and will meet you there, do not 
raise your fist.  Do not raise
your small voice against it.  And do not
take cover.  Instead, curl your toes
into the grass, watch the cloud 
ascending from your lips.  Walk
through the garden's dormant splendor.
Say only, thank you.
Thank you.

-Ross Gay

Gone, but not forgotten...................

Bobby Vee...............................The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

On populism......................

Populism is a political and social phenomenon that arises from the common man being fed up with 1) wealth and opportunity gaps, 2) perceived cultural threats from those with different values in the country and from outsiders, 3) the “establishment elites” in positions of power, and 4) government not working effectively for them. These sentiments lead that constituency to put strong leaders in power. Populist leaders are typically confrontational rather than collaborative and exclusive rather than inclusive. As a result, conflicts typically occur between opposing factions (usually the economic and socially left versus the right), both within the country and between countries. These conflicts typically become progressively more forceful in self- reinforcing ways.


Within countries, conflicts often lead to disorder (e.g., strikes and protests) that prompt stronger reactions and the growing pressure to more forcefully regain order by suppressing the other side. Influencing and, in some cases, controlling the media typically becomes an important aspect of engaging in the conflicts. In some cases, these conflicts have led to civil wars. Such conflicts have led a number of democracies to become dictatorships to bring order to the disorder that results from these conflicts. Between countries, conflicts typically occur because populist leaders’ natures are more confrontational than cooperative and because conflicts with other countries help to unify support for the leadership within their countries.


In other words, populism is a rebellion of the common man against the elites and, to some extent, against the system. The rebellion and the conflict that comes with it occur in varying degrees. Sometimes the system bends with it and sometimes the system breaks. Whether it bends or breaks in response to this rebellion and conflict depends on how flexible and well established the system is. It also seems to depend on how reasonable and respectful of the system the populists who gain power are.


-Ray Dalio, as excerpted from this essay

death-birth continuity......................

     When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.  That is fairly well understood, at least in the arts.  Mark Twain's experience comes to mind, in which, after he had mastered the analytic knowledge needed to pilot the Mississippi River, he discovered the river had lost its beauty.  Something is always killed.  But what is less noticed in the arts - something is always created too.  And instead of just dwelling on what is killed it's important also to see what's created and to see the process of a kind of death-birth continuity that is neither good nor bad, but just is.

-Robert M. Pirsig,  from chapter seven of Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance:  An Inquiry Into Values

Fifty years ago..........................

Jimi Hendrix........................................................................Fire

Undulate.................

"I get tired of either sense or nonsense if I am kept continuously to either and like my mind to undulate between the two as it likes best."

-Walter Bagehot

Likely true............................

"... the biggest lever for change is not a change in self-belief but a fundamental change in the way one sees and regards one's connections with and obligations to others."

-The Arbinger Institute,  The Outward Mindset:  seeing beyond ourselves:  How To Change Lives & Transform Organizations

thanks David