“If 50,000,000 say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” - Anatole France

 From “The HumanCondition: A User’s Manual” by Arnold Kunst

2 March 

When you pander to your fears you commit a kind of blasphemy. Fear always comes hidden within a kind of riddle. We’re supposed to decode the riddle and then get on with doing our thing anyway. Unfortunately, that’s all on the far side of ‘pander to your fears.