… how many of us, living our middle-class lives, would endorse our children choosing to refuse success as middle-class America defines it, instead returning to the land to farm, or to engage in some other non-remunerative activity that guarantees that they’ll live on the relative margins of our society? I’d like to think that I would, because it’s more true to what I value, but I cannot say with confidence that I would. Because after all, I have not made that choice for myself.

Is such a choice actually “more true” to what we “value”? I wonder.

I’ll let Socrates voice a question on my behalf: “Is it natural for practice to have less hold on truth than theory has?”