Recently, I read two books one after the other by coincident: one entitled “The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created” by William Bernstein, and the other “Talking to My Daughter about the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism” by Yanis Varoufakis.
What I found interesting is that despite both going through the same fact pattern in economic history, they seem to take very different viewpoints and come to diametrically opposing conclusions. Having read the books, combined with my own personal life experiences, I have come to the realization that the facts and realities do not matter as much as the lenses through which we allow ourselves to observe the world.
Indeed, “[t]he real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”, selon Monsieur Proust.
Apparently, what counts is not what we see, but how we see it. So, let’s be careful in choosing our lenses.
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