• Thought For The Day

    Orthodoxy be Damned

    The Presidential election coming in November is critical. Orthodox (orthos: right or true; doxa: opinion) thinking is being pitched out like used bath water.  A statement made by Carrie Brown in POLITICO sums it up fairly well in my thinking. “But that misty, glittery terrain is precisely the ground on which [some] have chosen to wage the 2008 presidential election. It is a choice freighted with risks. It depends on winning, over the next ten weeks, many Americans whom polls show are reluctant to embrace a movement that places its faith in intangible qualities — charisma, vision, capacity for growth — rather than in such prosaic traits as national experience or long-term…