The Infinite Toddler Regress–The Krugman Function Part 3 – Transition Milwaukee.
In this installment I’m going to talk about Paul Krugman’s resistance to whole-system thinking, and I’m going to do it by way of a comparison to a very different intellectual dispensation: namely the one demonstrated by my three year old twin sons. Lest this comparison seem too insulting to be taken seriously, in his defense I should mention that Krugman’s poor showing in this intellectual curiosity contest nevertheless illustrates an important dilemma. This dilemma is faced daily by parents trying to get to work, but also by the intellectual-activist attempting to harness a curious and inquiring disposition for useful action.
Here, at any rate, is a partially fictionalized conversation between me and my three year-olds. I should note, however, that it is less fictionalized than one might be apt to assume.
Daddy [putting boots on]: bye-bye guys
Evjen: Where you going daddy? Where you going?
Isak: No go bye-bye Daddy, no go bye-bye.
Daddy: I’m sorry men, I’d much rather stay here, but I have to go to work.
Evjen: Why Daddy?
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