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Mar 22, 2017
>>>>>> Two Weeks Ago News BRILLIANCE ALERT <<<<<<
How much do we miss Michael Crichton???
A lot.
Michael Crichton, American doctor, author, screenwriter, film director and producer, died in 2oo8 but Two Weeks Ago News feels like we have been channeling him for the past several weeks, although we could never come close to matching his brilliance. As we make our way into the world of media headlines and shrieking journalists who do little more than terrify the populace - or try to - on a daily basis, we were fascinated to read, and take enormous comfort, in his speech, "Why Speculate?" which he delivered at the International Leadership Forum in La Jolla, California in 2002.
And now we're wondering: It was certainly bad enough then. In the 9 years since his death, how much more have we devolved into a nation of Speculators-in-chief? Lead Anchor Speculators? Top Hollywood Speculators? Talk Show Host Speculators? Frightening prospects, all.
We'd like to think he'd enjoy reading Two Weeks Ago News. For now, we've linked to his brilliant speech, and posted just one of our favorite passages below.
TWAN site update: As we come across them, or as brilliance emerges from whatever dark corner we seem to keep it in these days, we're going to post it here; partly to give us all hope; partly to remind us that some concepts and ideas and philosophies will more than withstand our arbitrary but useful two-weeks-ago test of time. We hope they'll serve as reminders from people far smarter than our team that everything is NOT imploding on a daily basis and that sometimes (most times?) the thing we fear is probably not real, or at least not what is being portrayed to us in the media.
More outrage - lots of outrage! - to come, have no fear. But today we felt like a dose of sanity and found Michael's words to be exactly what we needed. Enjoy.
>>>>>> Two Weeks Ago News BRILLIANCE ALERT <<<<<<
How much do we miss Michael Crichton???
A lot.
Michael Crichton, American doctor, author, screenwriter, film director and producer, died in 2oo8 but Two Weeks Ago News feels like we have been channeling him for the past several weeks, although we could never come close to matching his brilliance. As we make our way into the world of media headlines and shrieking journalists who do little more than terrify the populace - or try to - on a daily basis, we were fascinated to read, and take enormous comfort, in his speech, "Why Speculate?" which he delivered at the International Leadership Forum in La Jolla, California in 2002.
And now we're wondering: It was certainly bad enough then. In the 9 years since his death, how much more have we devolved into a nation of Speculators-in-chief? Lead Anchor Speculators? Top Hollywood Speculators? Talk Show Host Speculators? Frightening prospects, all.
We'd like to think he'd enjoy reading Two Weeks Ago News. For now, we've linked to his brilliant speech, and posted just one of our favorite passages below.
TWAN site update: As we come across them, or as brilliance emerges from whatever dark corner we seem to keep it in these days, we're going to post it here; partly to give us all hope; partly to remind us that some concepts and ideas and philosophies will more than withstand our arbitrary but useful two-weeks-ago test of time. We hope they'll serve as reminders from people far smarter than our team that everything is NOT imploding on a daily basis and that sometimes (most times?) the thing we fear is probably not real, or at least not what is being portrayed to us in the media.
More outrage - lots of outrage! - to come, have no fear. But today we felt like a dose of sanity and found Michael's words to be exactly what we needed. Enjoy.
Even though the speculation is correct only by chance, which means you are wrong at least 50% of the time, nobody remembers and therefore nobody cares. You are never accountable. The audience does not remember yesterday, let alone last week, or last month. Media exists in the eternal now, this minute, this crisis, this talking head, this column, this speculation. - Michael Crichton, "Why Speculate?"