7 September

Photo (not mine) from the 1970s, showing just how rampant smoking was as a habit for many decades. It dominates the photo. Walter Lippmann said that when everybody thinks alike, nobody is thinking much. It’s a useful guide for life. If the ideas and actions that guide your life are just what everybody else is currently thinking and doing, or are one of two rival sets of actions and ideas, they’re probably not thought at all. Just imitation for the sake of socially ‘fitting in’ i.e. achieving social status. And they’re probably killing you. You won’t realise that until it’s much too late.