For the last while now I've been becoming more and more cognizant of the fact that I really don't have any answers when it comes to most questions. Get past how many teaspoons of salt in a recipe, go beyond directions to a local business, move off the Jeopardy! facts board, and I'm stumped. I don't know how things got to be the way they are, so I'm at a loss to figure out how to move on from them. I couldn't begin to factor in all the variables in any situation, so I'm at a loss to configure possible alternative permutations.
I don't think this is just a personal failing on my part; I don't think anyone else has any answers, either. I have to confess I've become quite suspicious of anyone who talks like they have a solution to big problems like education, climate, economics, the geopolitical order, and the like. Maybe it's fatigue from bumping up against campaign rhetoric everywhere I turn, maybe it's just that I'm now playing the back nine of life, but I just don't see any answers anywhere.
The good news is that no one is asking me for any, so I'm pretty much off the hook in any case!
I don't think this is just a personal failing on my part; I don't think anyone else has any answers, either. I have to confess I've become quite suspicious of anyone who talks like they have a solution to big problems like education, climate, economics, the geopolitical order, and the like. Maybe it's fatigue from bumping up against campaign rhetoric everywhere I turn, maybe it's just that I'm now playing the back nine of life, but I just don't see any answers anywhere.
The good news is that no one is asking me for any, so I'm pretty much off the hook in any case!
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