"'Experience' is a joke that theory plays on history. Descending from abstract theory to the apparently firm ground of concrete history, we soon learn that experience is endless, seamless, directionless, sometimes eye-opening, sometimes tiresome and irrelevant. Without a sense of direction, we will walk backward rather than forward. Without a broad sense of purpose, our knowledge of historical experience may never seem to matter. Without a set of pressing questions, we may review our past without ever fashioning answers to the problems facing us today."
- Norman Krumholz and John Forester |
©Samuel Coons, 2017