white blazes

the right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. if we want to put local life in proper relation to the globe, we must do so by imagination, charity, and forbearance and by making local life competent as possible—not by the presumptuous abstractions of “global thought.” those who have thought globally (and among them the most successful have been imperial governments and multinational corporations) have done so by means of simplications too extreme and oppressive to merit the name of thought.