MARK BARNES: Are we all singing from the same economy hymn sheet?
25 November 2019 - 17:59
What separates humans from animals is our ability to anticipate. Take that away and we’d be lost in a wilderness of indecision. It would become increasingly difficult to reverse-engineer actual decisions back to the logic that drove them. It would be virtually impossible to plan what may happen next, and why — to prevent or endorse it.
This absence of certainty has a huge cost. It is, of course, impossible to see into the future. All the more reason, then, to have a shared, resilient set of anchors to hold it together...
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