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Jerry Van Auken's avatar

Hmm, I must not have been able to view the entire article.

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Jerry Van Auken's avatar

That's it? Where are the rest of the dots. I was looking to reading more.

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Grumpy's avatar

I'm explaining that my main motivation for writing The Curmudgeon's Progress is to make connections between dots that don't seem related at first glance. For example, in "No News Is Good News", I tried to show how off-the-cuff comments by Scarlett O’Hara and Alfred E. Neuman linked to a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson and an anecdote shared by Eric Rhoads. I mentioned variations of a related life hack described by Rolf Dobelli and Joakim Book and my own version of it, then showed how C. S. Lewis hinted at a similar life hack in the face of the greatest calamity of the 20th Century.

In "I’m from the Government and I’m Here to Help" I showed how three government agencies, established to serve and protect the public, instead serve and protect the industries they're supposed to regulate. I hope this clarifies things. Thanks for commenting.

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