Ikigai Thought for Today: The Long Run
Contrasting perspectives to prompt some pondering.
Here are two thoughts from John Maynard Keyes about how things go in the long run.
"In the long run, we are all dead."
He said in 1923"In the long run, almost anything is possible."
He said in 1942
🌀 Why the change?
🌱 They are both true, and yet one is hopeful.
🌿 Why do you think he was more hopeful in the middle of a world war than at the height of prosperity in the 1920s?
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Awesome evocative question.
First thought that came to mind about his view is that the first he was witnessing greed and selfishness. The second he was witnessing selflessness and the strength of the human spirit to bring about change for the good.
First thing I think is 20 years of age. The prospective changes from what we've seen we've been able to accomplish ourselves, compared to what we may have observed from less effective people around us.