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Just walk down the street and you can see that most people don’t know what they’re doing or why. That’s the impact of the Economic Infrastructure, but it’s still in the living human brain. The ledger informs us but it doesn’t make us what we are—not physically. “So when you decide to do something, anything, you have to wonder what frame of mind brought you to that decision. More times than not it will be a part of your mind that you hadn’t considered.”
BEING A BOXER, EVEN an amateur like me, one learns to deal with manifestations of pain and concussion. I walked down the street toward Central Park, dragging the headache and the drug-induced mental bifurcation behind me like the chains of lifelong servitude. That’s why, for so long, black men dominated boxing. That ring encompassed our entire lives. We were in training from the day we were born.
American men especially, and more and more women all the time, seem to think that life is like a mission. That’s how they approach sports and war and sex—even love. That’s what they think about when somebody’s credit goes bad or there’s an accident on the road: somebody veered off the straight and narrow.
Einstein was right: the connection between A and B is questionable at best, and there’s no such thing as a straight line.
Even the president of the United States claimed that his war was a mistake based on misinformation he received from those whom he expected to supply him with the truth. People who work within systems can avoid their own shortcomings because they are surrounded by people who are just as flawed.
