Why would anyone bury decades of inherited sensibilities and
intuitions just to be told by a little box how serious it all is (interrupted
by a commercial on how to avoid paying back taxes…)? It's just a little box in
your house with a lot of different voices. Be the ventriloquist, not the dummy;
listen to you.
There is a wonderful whispering skepticism alive in all of us. It
hisses at us before we leap over an abyss, and occasionally it says, “This
might be a foot too far.”
