• We know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in. Uncertainty engenders real opportunity as well as misleading choices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways of understanding the world alongside hollow maxims and deceptive promises. Understandably, we seek guides and guideposts to ease the anxiety of the journey. But we also need to depend on our own insights and imagination to cultivate, from our own experience, a way to move forward.

    Alan Briskin: We know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in.  Uncertainty engenders real opportunity as well as misleading choices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways of understanding the world alongside hollow maxims and deceptive promises.  Understandably, we seek guides and guideposts to ease the anxiety of the journey.  But we also need to depend on our own insights and imagination to cultivate, from our own experience, a way to move forward.