Excellent piece. Reminds me of a discussion I had in my late teens with an elderly man who was retiring. He said, "No one knows what's like to BE wrong, only what's it like to HAVE BEEN wrong." (Sorry, Substack won't allow me to italicize.) Being a wise-cracking teenager, I shot back, "So you're saying I'm good, all my wrongs were in the past!" He replied, "Oh no, you have a lifetime of wrongheadedness ahead of you. You just won't know how wrong you were until you're my age."
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Excellent piece. Reminds me of a discussion I had in my late teens with an elderly man who was retiring. He said, "No one knows what's like to BE wrong, only what's it like to HAVE BEEN wrong." (Sorry, Substack won't allow me to italicize.) Being a wise-cracking teenager, I shot back, "So you're saying I'm good, all my wrongs were in the past!" He replied, "Oh no, you have a lifetime of wrongheadedness ahead of you. You just won't know how wrong you were until you're my age."