Something I don't think we do enough of anymore is good old fashioned THINKING (hence the blog name). Just read any newspaper headline (if you can find one that is both correctly spelled and gramatically correct), watch any TV news or any account of a political debate and try to find any semblance of logic or thought. Thinking for yourself and making up your own mind on something is liberating - and quite addictive in a positive way. Following the crowd never seemed like a good idea to me, and thinking also gives you a whole new source of humour and outright laughter...again just look at any politician or political party.
I have long treasured a quote that is attributed to Fred Friendly of CBS News - he reputedly said at the beginning of many of his seminars:
"...their purpose was to make the agony of decision-making so intense that you can escape only by thinking."
One could do a lot worse than to live by those words...I wish more people in power inside and outside of government would do so.
Update: And now it is at the top of the blog...now that I have verified its wording and origin.
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