In the strain of american political thinking to the right. Living. Other years ago. Or a hundred years ago. What happens when you get hung up on that. When you get wrapped up in the past and you cannot go forward. According to what we are saying is that there should be two kinds path ol geez living too much in the present moment. What is more productive for prosperity. And achieving your longterm goals would be to have the wherewithal and the outlook to look forward with your life and to decide what you will need to look forward to. And write your own script and have the wherewithal to forego the present satisfaction in the name of and the service of achieving the longterm goal. That would be botched up by getting hung up in the past. Froids definition of mental illness. Or being too much interested in the immediate Immediate Gratification or living in the present we dont even want our children to go to high school because fat highspirited highmindedness but we touch on somewhat playfu
Does that mean . Appropriately people call themselves indispensable and they cant be because they die. And all men do. But it is the major one that they thought the world would end when they did. Or social science predates what the idea. But if you go back, the idea that social forces. The people were there. They died of a heart attack what happened, the stuff that really mattered would have ended up about the same. So he makes this argument with me but in the essay he barely mentions napoleon. Its not about him at all. Its about the contract. So this essentially has become history or Political Science without proper nouns. People leave alt be on the other hand, carl leal takes the most extreme opposition and says that history is nothing but biographies of great men and this is character as a great man in history as one person after another after another and when i thought these are incompatible people you cant get further apart in your view but both arguments make sense. The social sc
It has to be one of the oldest debates with social science predating the idea there is but the hideous social forces explain human outcomes. Its all about biography. What i thought is these are two further apart view points. The problem is that both arguments make sense. The social scientists or the people following the tradition of, you know, not just marx, but most social scientists say, look, theres three reasons why leaders dont matter that much, that the leader of my organization faces external constraints. If youre the ceo of company, you have competitors. You cant set prices at whatever you want. Theres internal constraints, tradition, culture, everything inside a country, company, military unit. You cant do whatever you want. Most importantly, leaders are not chosen randomly so most leaders of powerful organizations, organizations that we care about, organizations that have the ability to reshape history, they are not picked out of a hat, but picked because that organization is
Lower down payment, the higher mortgage whatever it was was all a way to increase the profit potential. Thats the system the way the privatepublic system was devised. Thank you. After words with this weeks guest host historian and journalist Richard Brookhiser Senior Editor with national review. This week Gautam Mukunda in his first book, the indispensible when leaders really matter. Ian at the Harvard Business professor profiles leaders to determine when leaders matter the most. He also discusses the lessons that can be learned from those whove made the greatest impact on the issues of their day. Host this was a delightful book to read. You deal with some very familiar figures but found new things to say about them. You attack them with some new angles. So lets dive in. You have one of your epigraphs is a quote that gets attributed to different people, i gather Charles Degaulle is most often credited. The graveyards are full of indispensable pass. What does that mean . Guest appropria
How serious is this situation and is bellevue prepared for this . Well, first of all, you know, it is not a confirmed case, but if it is confirmed obviously there is always the concern, since he has been back in new york 10 days although very unlikely to be infectious, there will be concern and im sure the public, the department of health will be doing the circle of contacts around him to make sure that theyre all people who will be monitoring that irtemperatures just on the slight chance, if he is confirmed. Gerri right. And as a matter of fact, weve already seen headlines tonight that kind of checking of the circle around him has already begun. Now, you say he is probably not infectious. How do you know that . Well he apparently has been check his temperature up until now. As soon as he developed symptoms and a fever, according at least to the news reports he immediately called Doctors Without Borders who notified the Health Authorities or who are bringing him over to bellevue. He kn