I've just come across a quote by former US President John F Kennedy in 1962 on thinking which is so apt - even for these days - that I've decided to post it as a standalone article:
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy, Yale University Commencement Address, 1962
Kennedy - and his speechwriters, especially Ted Sorenson, has a way with words. Sorenson, incidentally, says a lot of the good stuff was Kennedy, and I am - at no expense to Sorenson's capability - inclined to agree with him. Kennedy was a flawed human being, but limited word-smithing was not part of that, as shown by his live exchanges (some on TV).
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