I love this quote:
Remembering the dilemma of Yang Chu, who weeping at the crossroads, said, "Isn't it here that you take a half step wrong and wake up a thousand miles astray?"
Sometimes I think more people should. I'm big on making decisions based on your best information, but when there are foreseeable consequences, I fail to understand why people want to ignore them and say "let the chips fall where they may" and later on say "well, I have no regrets, I did my best." Ummm - no you didn't - you could clearly have foreseen what happened, you were even warned about it and you ignored it. It's pretty clear in politics these days, but I'm seeing it more in people I know. It's a laziness, a desire to shift the consequences to somebody else.
Comment #2 :: link :: March 20, 2006 10:48 AM :: homepageOn that note here is a trend that seems to be on the radar now, so let's not say we were not warned: Kevin Phillips, conseritive economist, says that the threat of homegrown theocracy is as big a threat to the US as oil dependency and overspending. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/books/review/19brink.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Jimmy Cartner has a book on the Times bwest seller list warningof the same thing.
And the Scientologists just forced Comedy Central to pull a South Park off the air by threatening keep Tom Cruise from promoting a new film. They have already made Isaac Hayes resign.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/20/leisure.southpark.reut/index.html
Please reread the "Handmaid's Tale"
