Oh, the Humanities

Humanity is the key that will open the door to our future.

Because I believe in the power of reading and acquired knowledge, I’ve listed the paywall on this essay. Don’t miss a single one.

Reading (La Lecture) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1891 (public domain - Wikimedia Commons)

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” — Will Durant, 1926

There’s so much happening in the news every day, it’s difficult to keep up. It feels as if we’re caught in a current and are fighting it with every swipe of the phone, swimming against a digital riptide while powered only with thumbs to propel us.

If I were F. Scott Fitzgerald (instead of W. Scott Monty), perhaps I’d write:

“So we swipe on, thumbs against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the ever-present.”

It’s exhausting.

There’s a temptation to undertake a digital detox, but sometimes, it’s just not an option. Leaders are expected to make sense of it all—to parse through all of the facts flying at them, and to do so, they need to put the pieces together using perception and imagination …