Friday 29 May 2020
Lockdown lift anticipated
The Wise do at once what the Fool does at last. Both do the same thing; the only difference lies in the time they do it: the one at the right time, the other at the wrong.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
Nature hardly seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has annexed to itself the art of prolonging them.
Marcel Proust - À la recherche du temps perdu
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An addition to Gracian, in light of the lockdown. The wisest sometimes refrain from what the fools are fooled into doing.
Sam - taking questions from the media could be an example of that. It seems so unproductive from a government perspective.
The wise wait until all the problems have been fixed.
Including the ones they don't get know about.
It is called making it fool-proof.
Buying a car, a new drug, crossing a bridge, flying a new aircraft type.
Examples too numerous to mention.
What was old Batasar trying to sell?
Agudeza.... Wit, sharpness
Doonhamer - his was a mostly non-technical age with mostly traditional skills where the battle was to move on rather than stay still - different outlook.
Graeme - exactly.
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