Wonderful quote, thank you - much better to my taste than an argument between a professional economist (deepak) and a gifted amateur (cheeni) on poverty eradication
------Original Message------ From: Dave Long Sender: [email protected] To: [email protected] ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] aqvavit Sent: Feb 22, 2012 23:25 > Tradition and modernity have always coexisted, even in Latin America GK Chesterton had (nearly a century ago) an insight on the coexistence* of tradition and modernity: > I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is > always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is > wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while > the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always > attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid. -Dave * if you believe this characterization to be a bit too facile, the same writer admitted (in another context) that: "impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance" -- srs (blackberry)
