Win Wenger writes: By the time as a kid I hit elementary school, I had already read, in my hunger for any kind of reading material, a lot of history, very unlike my agemates around me. Most of what I’d read to that point and for several years after was popular-level history which was always proposing or arguing cause-&-effect relationships. Thus, the concept of causality was pretty familiar to me by the time I hit elementary school. It didn’t occur to me until early this morning that because of this I was perceiving many relationships, and nearly all of even the most obvious of these relationships were quite invisible to my classmates. (And I think some of them were invisible even to most of my teachers.) To them, things “just happen.” Therefore, nothing has much meaning or significance, and there’s nothing anyone can do and nothing that can be done. I lived in a world of OhMyGoshWhatIf, and they lived in a world of duh. (04/21/02)
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