Maggie's Farm

thank you barrister. nice to hear responses from people about this type of stuff.
I'm 70 retired ia 52 grip now in mn. after born and raised nyc, and went to pratt for fine arts major in photo. got into film biz after that as crew mechanic. been in touch with other pratt classmates all this time and love art and talking about it, which includes cultural history. Barbara Tuchman is another favorite author of mine ( first salute etc. ).
I like bird dogs bent on boats, sailing, travel, foods, etc. fancy hotels and so on, but find it pedantic and basically not up to par for my interests so I hope he gets his head out of his you know what some day.
lets try to appreciate without prevarication and impressing just for the sake of blowing our own horns. who cares about tuscany ? I mean, really... isn't New England good enough for humans ?
Anyway, thank you so much for input and hope I don't make anyone mad at me for being such a jerk.

can someone remove my comment above or edit out the criticism of bird dog's love of travel, hobbies, new restaurants, etc ?? it was totally wrong of me to do that.

thanks Jake. good advice. much better than regretting what was posted to begin with.

more about barbara tuchman from wikipedia:
it is more true today the before ?

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Tuchman's Law
In the introduction to her 1978 book A Distant Mirror, Tuchman playfully identified a historical phenomenon which she termed "Tuchman's Law," to wit:

Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place. Besides, persistence of the normal is usually greater than the effect of the disturbance, as we know from our own times. After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening—on a lucky day—without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena. This has led me to formulate Tuchman's Law, as follows: "The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold" (or any figure the reader would care to supply).[17]

Tuchman's Law has been defined as a psychological principle of "perceptual readiness" or "subjective probability".[18]