Nothing but Trouble

Had a look at Durant's essays on the principals. An old, falling-apart, spineless paperback I first glanced at thirty years ago. Francis Bacon spoke to exactly the kinds of attitudes and perspectives mentioned below. I feel like I'm dealing with another sort of scholasticism where what one pedagogue says about scriptural text is passed along by another, based on nothing more than subjective authority and reverence, one meanwhile indeed respecting and revering the actors.

Bacon posits an inductive approach, descrying impediments:
* Idols of the Tribe - culturally imprinted suppositions

* Idols of the Den - vis Myth of the Cave; illusions and self-delusion

* Idols of the Marketplace - mass psychology impacted by slogans

* Idols of the Theatre - all above playing out in societal folly

So, gather the facts before impressing others with erudition?

Good idea... and, as it warms up in Phoenix, wish I was over there.
Frankly, can't much stand it here year round. Dull and strange people.

Little savoir-faire, everything reduced to money changing hands.