People
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
— Albert Einstein
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Our tools have become brilliant while our goals have grown blurry. That's the diagnosis here: we're superb at how to do things and muddled about what to do them for. It's a compact complaint about skill outrunning purpose in the age being described.
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