Thinking about many things after my very quick trip to central Florida.
First, I think that there really is something to the connection between how you treat individuals and your political outlook. People who have a very committed political position feel justified in dismissing preferences or desires of others if they don’t correspond to the truth that they “know.” This might be prevalent diachronically, but I think this is a common practice that increases the more certain people are of their political position.
Uncertainty is a fantastic political position as it keeps you open to change. You don’t have to do the high-energy face saving, or spinning a narrative about being wrong (but still being right) and you don’t have to do the backflips in defending your position until the very end. You can always lean into change, steer into it and really come out with a more informed or if not that, a more reasoned position, which is better for democracy anyway.
I’m hoping I can get a free drink on this flight too - coming down here they didn’t charge me. We’ll see if I can replicate it.
There doesn’t seem to be any reason why the FAA bans mobile phone use on commercial flights I was wondering about this as it’s such a small deal these days to power off phones on the flight. Maybe they are slowly moving away from the policy?
I think three to four days is the best length for a trip visiting people. I used to think it was much longer or you had to have at least a week to accomplish anything, but as I get older I think differently about it.
Flying back to a very warm New York, taking the train back home from Kennedy so I’m sure I’ll post a bit more. Had little time to really have a sit down and a type with little kids about - I don’t know how you people with kids write anything let alone good things. You are a lot better at concentrating than I am.