{"items": [{"author": "Mac", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/525116380845382?comment_id=525155377508149", "anchor": "fb-525155377508149", "service": "fb", "text": "\"People come in two types...\" One of those pairs (paradoxes) are the risk-taking explorers -- and entrepreneurs. A lot of them die, figuratively or literally. So it's good for society that there are not so many of them. While those that live and succeed are the sparks that fuel and light our way into the future. Most of us do not bestir ourselves to that level.
Walt Whitman incorporated these ideas into a poem, part of which was quoted in Ralph Vaughan Williams' \"Sea Symphony\". The movement in the symphony was titled \"Explorers\"
\"Down from the gardens of Asia descending radiating,
Adam and Eve appear, then their myriad progeny after them,
Wandering, yearning, curious, with restless explorations,
With questionings, baffled, formless, feverish, with never-happy hearts,
With that sad incessant refrain, Wherefore unsatisfied soul? and Whither O mocking life?
\"Ah who shall soothe these feverish children?
Who Justify these restless explorations?
Who speak the secret of impassive earth?\"
A corollary: A core aspect of our humanity is that we are problem solvers. This is how we make progress. And if there _are_ no problems to solve, we'll bloody well create them.", "timestamp": "1356887124"}, {"author": "BDan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/525116380845382?comment_id=525222820834738", "anchor": "fb-525222820834738", "service": "fb", "text": "The main problem with resistance to change is that it doesn't take into account changing conditions. Something that was a good strategy when it was developed may be a terrible strategy 10, 20, or 50 years after that.", "timestamp": "1356897517"}]}