The news told me this morning that the Dow Jones dropped because of fears about the new strain of Covid in the U.K. It's utter nonsense, of course, to think that we could know what caused the market to drop, much less reduce it to a single cause. But that's the fiction that is served to us every day on the news (and in education, and in education research, but I digress). The world has been for some time too complex to understand. It has probably always been too complex. Tim Maughan writes that "no one is driving" and that this is a problem. Maybe. But my approach is to say, given that no one's driving, given that the world is too complex to understand, what do we do? Because, to be sure, the world is outside my control, and I have no illusions about that.
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