Ignoring the facts is bad luck
I read yesterday that the Philosopher Seneca once said "Good luck is preparation meets opportunity." I don't think that I could have read that before the past week and really understand the implications of it. I happened to read it in a book called The Choice which I was browsing through at Barnes and Noble (while on a psuedo-date with Drew). The author of the book connected Seneca's idea to his own idea: that if you understand the fundamental laws governing the various aspects of life, then you will be very well prepared, and will have enough knowledge, to navigate pretty much everything that you might come across. And basically everyone has the brain power to do this.
This very gracefully follows from my last post.
And its really been making me think lately. Why is it that everyone wants to say something new, rather than go back and try to understand what those who have come before us have already figured out. Why is it that we are willing to revisit something when the principles governing it have been proven to be law? Surely the answer is that it is our blatant vanity.
Obviously what I am really talking about here are the laws of economics. Laws. Like Gravity. Really, its the same thing. A law. For instance, the fact that supply and demand is not a theory but a Law. To want that to change, to try to bring about a change in the status of that fact, is as arrogant as trying to change gravity.
To tie this together, I guess what I mean is that if we are so willing to forget the meaning of fundamentals, if we refuse to have that foundation, then we will be completely unprepared to face anything.
If some of the negative eras of history end up repeating themselves here in the US, it is only because so many have been blindsided by what a few brave others are willing to openly look at and let affect them: the Laws of economics.
And that will be their very bad luck.
This very gracefully follows from my last post.
And its really been making me think lately. Why is it that everyone wants to say something new, rather than go back and try to understand what those who have come before us have already figured out. Why is it that we are willing to revisit something when the principles governing it have been proven to be law? Surely the answer is that it is our blatant vanity.
Obviously what I am really talking about here are the laws of economics. Laws. Like Gravity. Really, its the same thing. A law. For instance, the fact that supply and demand is not a theory but a Law. To want that to change, to try to bring about a change in the status of that fact, is as arrogant as trying to change gravity.
To tie this together, I guess what I mean is that if we are so willing to forget the meaning of fundamentals, if we refuse to have that foundation, then we will be completely unprepared to face anything.
If some of the negative eras of history end up repeating themselves here in the US, it is only because so many have been blindsided by what a few brave others are willing to openly look at and let affect them: the Laws of economics.
And that will be their very bad luck.
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