Monday, February 25, 2013

The Emphasis Balance


It’s the triple team, the full-court press.  This week, all three blogs (mine, Madame’s, and ours) get the same theme, a theme as old as, well, time: You reap what you sow.

We don’t finish what we start.  We let ourselves be led astray by diversions.  Other societies don’t.  And they are walloping the bejeezus out of us.

We reap what we emphasize.  If we value a 20 foot jump shot or a touchdown pass more than we value the ability to use math and engineering to construct and maintain our infrastructure, we lose.  The fact that the average person knows WAY more about sports or various forms of entertainment in general than that person knows about science, math, or engineering, says volumes about how out of balance we are.

Time to get back in balance.  That’s all.

Starting today, not tomorrow.

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