John Maynard Keynes’s famous line can mean a lot of things, but one possible interpretation is that it’s not enough to have a vision for the long-run; you also have to be able to persuade others to adapt it in the short run. If your vision is so ambitious and so counter-cultural that it leads to your becoming an enemy of the state it won’t do you much good. In short, whether you are a philosopher, mathematician, economist, epidemiologist, scholar etc.—you can’t only be accountable to the truth; you also have to play “politics.”
"In the Long Run We Are All Dead"?
"In the Long Run We Are All Dead"?
"In the Long Run We Are All Dead"?
John Maynard Keynes’s famous line can mean a lot of things, but one possible interpretation is that it’s not enough to have a vision for the long-run; you also have to be able to persuade others to adapt it in the short run. If your vision is so ambitious and so counter-cultural that it leads to your becoming an enemy of the state it won’t do you much good. In short, whether you are a philosopher, mathematician, economist, epidemiologist, scholar etc.—you can’t only be accountable to the truth; you also have to play “politics.”