How We Seem

David Mamet wrote an opinion piece on a financial site recently, in which he interestingly had an excellent summary of something from we might recognize —

Moses sent 12 spies to scout out the Promised Land. They returned and reported it was a good land, filled with milk and honey, but it was populated by giants so large “we must have looked to them like grasshoppers, and that is how we seemed to ourselves in our own eyes.” 

Moses admonished them that they had been asked for their report, which gave their people information, rather than for their opinion, which made everyone afraid. The cowardice of the spies caused the 40 years of wandering, as Moses kept the Jews in the desert until that generation had died off.

— Hmmm.

Might sound familiar to you and me.

And not just because it’s from our Old Testament.

But because such appraisal and a resultant inactivity feels familiar.

As we get ready to start remembering to write “2025” what else is there we would benefit from keeping in mind?

For a hint, review Mamet’s second excerpted paragraph above.

See you back here tomorrow.