This is a sublime,
perfect day in October here in Dayton, where I have lived for the
past five years. I never expected in my seventy years before this
that I would live in Dayton, Ohio, and just love it. I just came in
from a bike ride on the banks of the Great Miami River in the
morning sunshine and felt “free as an Eagle's wing,” as Thoreau
once put it. In fact, I thought for several reasons, as well as felt,
that I would be dead by now.
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| "Free as an Eagle's wing..." - Thoreau |
How often we might
reflect and ask whether even five years ago we could have imagined being where we are
now!
It would seem at
first that no “social scientist” could possibly even imagine that
it was possible to predict what will happen socially when even
predicting one thinking individual's future is impossible. And yet
that is the predominant theory in social science, psychology,
economics, political science, and related human “sciences.” It
really is incredible, but it's true and has been true for over
two-hundred years.
