The value of prediction
If you try to resume the topics that people discuss you come to a quick realization. Be it politics or sports or religion those are all the same thing. If he’s throwing a fourth topic that of weather you realize that here we have no implication. Talk all you want the sun will still shine. So back to my insistence I’m listening to political dialogue. To the chagrin. Of certain family members I admit. But I do want to know what other people are talking about. I want to match my impressions with those held by other persons. I have learned along the way that we all have a sense of history but the details get cloudy. If in the Canadian context I hear someone discussing what happened in a certain time. I learned that all of those concepts are somewhat flawed. Probably for that reason that we insist on trying to write down history even though that is another vague way of dealing with life. We should probably just talk about the weather all the time everywhere. Still variety without any attempt to change the narrative. As I say I do listen to political dialogue and what I have learned is that for all the chatter we have little control over what actually takes place. We had a national election? It changed nothing. The impression is that we should just turn off any discussion of politics and concentrate on whether the sun will shine tomorrow. Yes it probably will but even if you make a prediction you have done nothing more then predict.
