March 11, 2009

The structure of our thinking can lead us to deeper insights or prevent us from reaching them. That is why it is so important to read and imitate complex thinkers.

Yesterday I wrote about the relationship between the natural sciences and politics, which is a moral science. Those reflections set off a chain of reflections on our current economic state, which Warren Buffet, I am told, described as having “fallen off a cliff.” Economists crunch numbers. They have reduced economics to following statistical trends, making