Freud, approximately right
“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.”
I am a big fan of the casual observers, less so of their science. I think for example Keynes was right to never really build models of his theories. Because his theories were just observations. And the man himself said 'it is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.'
So I think Freud is worth celebrating wherever he kept it rough, and where he attempted to be more precise, worth forgetting about.
It could explain why one of the best fonts of wisdom for me, has been Jerry Seinfeld. The definitive observational comic.
With curiosity you will simply notice what is. You don't really need to understand why something is, just that it is. I could not articulate better the gap between practitioners and academics.
I am a big fan of the casual observers, less so of their science. I think for example Keynes was right to never really build models of his theories. Because his theories were just observations. And the man himself said 'it is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.'
So I think Freud is worth celebrating wherever he kept it rough, and where he attempted to be more precise, worth forgetting about.
It could explain why one of the best fonts of wisdom for me, has been Jerry Seinfeld. The definitive observational comic.
With curiosity you will simply notice what is. You don't really need to understand why something is, just that it is. I could not articulate better the gap between practitioners and academics.
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