Bob Lewis
Columnist

Peeling the onion

analysis
Jan 15, 20041 min

Random thought: Most people don't peel the onion very far (a phrase I stole from one of R. A. Lafferty's books), which is to say they don't see very far beneath the surface of things, if at all. If you need evidence, read the letters to the editor in your local newspaper and see how often these missives are nothing more than cut-and-paste restatements of something that came out of one of the political parties, o

Random thought:

Most people don’t peel the onion very far (a phrase I stole from one of R. A. Lafferty’s books), which is to say they don’t see very far beneath the surface of things, if at all. If you need evidence, read the letters to the editor in your local newspaper and see how often these missives are nothing more than cut-and-paste restatements of something that came out of one of the political parties, or else from the broadcast punditocracy, with no more thought added than you’d get from a parrot who learned the same meaningless phrases.

Then there’s the opposite vice: There comes a time in onion-peeling when there’s no onion left.

– Bob

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