In a Freakonomics Blog entry in the NY Times, we get a collection of interesting pundit/expert quotes. Most of them have germs of ideas we can learn from. The bulk of the message is that they, the experts, are smart and the rest of us are dumb.
They are probably right but that’s not as helpful as you’d like. I suppose, in the fullness of time, one takes the critiques as guideposts but only after filtering out the unhelpful noise like criticisms of populations that live in danger areas.
This is very much stuff that talks to the foundation concepts that have woken me up to the need for action here on the local level. I resonate to some of the ideas but find the grandiosity and pomposity a bit nonproductive and annoying. However, since it’s in the Gray Lady, we all must realize that these are corporate-sponsored mouthpieces and therefore, the next step is probably to figure out whose axes they’re grinding and decide if we feel like either trusting or supporting them as voices.
Sorry to be cynical. Not very sorry but mebbe a little sorry.